Thursday, November 30, 2006 01:02 a.m.

life's getting a little repetitive...
but no one's complaining.

so i did my calculations;
if all goes well and i don't do something stupid enough to warrant a layoff, i should be able to earn enough for the marni totebag and wallet with enough left over for french and cooking classes come christmas.

argh, i need instant gratification - why must payday come so late!

Wednesday, November 29, 2006 12:36 a.m.

today was close to perfect.
aside from the happy morning interview, i bought a trilby hat (cabaretcabaret), a pair of skinny black pants and new ballet flats.
also watched my first movie in a million years, ate my favourite ice kacang and talked on the phone for a few hours (without once feeling guilty about wasting time).

but the best part of all has got to be the busking father and son at wheelock's underpass...
i want to marry the boy please (he gave the cutest speech and handshake ever!)

Monday, November 27, 2006 03:13 a.m.

this is scarcely true but you've got to admit, gradient colours are awesomely pretty to look at.
(sab, yours is dead accurate though.)

life as it is: sleep 'til you're hungry, eat 'til you're sleepy.


stickydatetoffeepuddingwithvanillabeanicecream.




what the...




today i went out and got myself a job (unintentionally).
it's lovely and exactly what a slacker (and glutton) like me would want.
hopefully i'll only have to start after prom night because much playing is still on the agenda!

Sunday, November 26, 2006 01:40 a.m.

my papers ended just yesterday and already it feels lightyears away.
been flitting around from place to place;
the meet-ups have left me in quite a daze.
oh look, i rhyme, ain't that sublime.

okay shut up karina, your mind's in a disarray.
(to be fair i've only slept a total of 3 hours since wednesday.)


marmalade pantry lovin' with food+dessert galore;
(i always have to unzip my skirt when dining with these four.)

we shopped around a barren town for all things pretty;
has the orchard road crowd moved to vivocity?

brewerkz at night with the "i don't do photos".
we sat back watching clubbers in vodka-induced rows. ;)

a nap of 2 hours then bishan-trekking with trish today (the sun's a dread!)
we're going to be seeing a lot of each other in the long weekend ahead.

at the hockey pitch (where the sun was a bitch).

compare and contrast the tanned from the fair!
anyway chicken rice lunching was a hearty affair.

okay i'm stretching the rhyming thing a little too far - back to prose.
mahjong with sab and jiaying tonight was awesome.
so i may have assuaged my long-standing itch for some tile-action but it's temporal, really;
i want to play so much more!
for now, though, i desperately need sleep...
won't be back in a while i expect.

postscript. isn't the bikini babe above such love?
that's exactly how my nose looked like during the sunburnt months. :D

Wednesday, November 22, 2006 09:15 p.m.

"The one thing that we yearn for in our living days, that makes us sigh and groan and undergo sweet nauseas of all kinds, is the remembrance of some lost bliss that was probably experienced in the womb and can only be reproduced (though we hate to admit it) in death."
- Jack Kerouac

Monday, November 20, 2006 09:04 p.m.



been stocking up on books and magazines the past week;
from truman capote and david sedaris and susanna clarke to neil gaiman and teenvogue to luxe city guides' hanoi and
ho chi minh city (i'm going to vietnam in december), i can't freaking wait to get started!
plus we checked out galerie cho lon at chip bee gardens today and went through shelves and tables of obscure paperbacks;
i bought this little hardcover called 'the english poets' which is essentially a single essay by the author on the subject.
it's lovely and all but now that i'm penniless, window shopping has lost its appeal.



i've this wild fascination with travel guides and this would be perfect as a post-As checklist of places to visit and things to do.
hi friends, christmas is here. :D

Sunday, November 19, 2006 10:35 p.m.

feels good ridding my computer of all school-related files;
no more messy shortcuts!


so while clearing my folders, i went through hundreds of old photos.


this was our first outing in j1 - ancient history!




and i stole this from jael.


"...the only people for me are the mad ones. The ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time. The ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn burn burn like fabulous yellow roman candles, exploding like spiders across the stars. In the middle you'll see the blue candle light pop and everybody goes "Awww!"
- Jack Kerouac

Saturday, November 18, 2006 08:42 p.m.

one.
friday's lit paper was a nice surprise because mr smith had gone through sonnet structures on our penultimate tutorial;
i literally pounced on the comparative ozymandias, along with the drama extract that the whole world did. :)
one more paper to go.

two.
rushed down to meet jan and charm for a whirlwind catch-up session at wheelock;
cooking classes and the odd job from february onwards - i promise to wait!

three.
trekked through bukit timah with tanny in search of 16 oriole crescent;
sleepover with the girls was familiar but in a new setting, even better!

four.
and now i've just reached home, shagged to the bone, dizzy with excitement and drawing up the craziest to-do lists.

urm, i promise to start studying tomorrow.

Thursday, November 16, 2006 10:35 p.m.

so it was my uncle's birthday and everyone was happily partaking in their buffet dinner when out of the blue i saw a freakin' display of fireworks exploding against the night sky;
i guess this is the kind of birthday present your company decides to give you when you're ceo of meritus mandarin except i laughed so hard at the sheer ridiculousness (is there such a word?) of it that i nearly choked on my dinner.
seriously, i don't think i've laughed this hard in a long time.
stupid joy-sucking dementor-ish a's.

i've officially procured my neil gaiman loot - gleeeee.

Wednesday, November 15, 2006 11:45 p.m.

okay i've something new to talk about other than the dreaded a's (which by the way offered up an economics mcq paper i found ridiculously difficult despite the fact that i didn't have to use my calculator at all).

dad: your bill doubled to 180 dollars this month. explain yourself.
me: urm, i've been calling people up to teach me stuff? and we have group discussions via conference call which i host.
dad: does that mean you're going to ace the exams?
me: eh, do you notice that the haze is gone.

also, every type of carbohydrate or fruit that i eat now never fails to remind me of VIRTUAL WATER CONTENT wtf.
okay enough randomness, more human geography.

Tuesday, November 14, 2006 10:42 p.m.



see you all...



next week!

a thousand miles seems pretty far
but they've got planes and trains and cars
i'd walk to you if i had no other way
our friends would all make fun of us
and we'll just laugh along because we know
that none of them have felt this way

Thursday, November 9, 2006 12:49 a.m.

'Gladly,' quod he, 'but of myn owene soore,
For soory herte, I telle may namoore.'

evidently my whole try-not-to-blog-during-the-As undertaking is futile because here i am, day and night, rain or shine.
speaking of the papers, all i can say is that i really must stop jeopardising my chances at a decent university because the way things are going...
i dare not speak further.

what would be nice at this point is a sense of certainty in knowing where i'm headed for.


i heard that surfing through technorati is akin to slashing your wrists because it's mental (and emotional) suicide just reading what other brilliantly smart students have written in their exam papers.
must. stop. imagining. the. worst.

i know what you're thinking;
that "karina's being melodramatic again" and things can't be all that bad and "bell curve! think bell curve!" (i've heard this from 7 people i swear) and...
no no, i dare not speak further.

ps. i love christmas.
pps. christmas trees are on sale. :D
ppps. my trend-spotting skills are most unfortunate;
imagine being forced to answer a 16m essay on river management when you haven't touched the topic simply because you have also not read up on plate tectonics and the entire chapter on atmospheric geog - yes, the shame.
pppps. sorry for the slight digression, i still love christmas.


Stick Boy noticed that his Christmas tree looked healthier than he did.

Wednesday, November 8, 2006 12:22 am

there's this lady i notice - she isn't the prettiest of things - but walks into starbucks with her beautiful brown balenciaga and orders the same venti green tea frappucino with cream on top around 9.30pm most nights i'm there.
some days i feel like a stalker, most times i just blatantly stare;
i think it's her nonchalance.
that and the bag.



more like vice versa.

not to sound morbid or anything, but i'm quite surprised we haven't read of any teenage suicide cases.
also, weiyan is giving me the silent sms treatment.
to appease you i'll take you to visit chinaman okay?
my treat.



i love economics. i love how we have to come up with glaringly hypothetical problems just to apply our dearly memorised scheme of policies to counteract what we've dreamt up and then, oh, counter that again in order to be 'evaluative' and sign off with some conclusivity of an answer which is really just some feeble attempt at diplomacy. i mean everyone knows you need discretion and common sense in decision-making right. and that it really depends on the situation at hand. do you really need to state that as an evaluation. isn't it an insult to the examiner. more importantly, do teenagers really need any more cynicism in their lives with this fault-finding making-a-mountain-out-of-a-molehill subject.

i love literature (no, i really do). but i love it more when we have to memorise stuff like 'yong flessh' and 'oold fissh' and break down the entire plot when the story would've been so much more enjoyable left on its own. plot analysis is a killjoy that diminishes the magic of a story and please don't argue with me on this.

i love geography. i love how we have to memorise case studies on countries that i am barely interested in when my own concept of homeland history is limited to raffles, lee kuan yew, and how i once acted as sang nila utama in a primary school play with a dramatically effective lion being the climax of the entire mumbojumbo. i love how sometimes amidst reading about fluvial landforms i have to ask my sis to google words for me because words like 'flocculation' are new to my already limited knowledge of physical geog in general.

i love how in the last week before our 'a' level gp paper i am still getting a B which is worrying me no end because my time management is kaput to say the least.

with so much love in the air, the next 3 weeks are going to be a blast getting through.
blah blah kabbalah.
i'm being such a ray of sunshine aren't i.
no really, school is lovely most of the time, but please bear with the catharsis;
it's just a much-needed stream of consciousness at a very frazzling point of time.



"pure raw explosive pleasure better than drugs better than smack better than a dope-coke-crack-fix-shit-shoot-sniff-
ganja-marijuana-blotter-acid-ecstasy better than sex head 69 orgies tantrism kamasutra or thai doggy-style better than banana milkshakes better than george lucas' trilogy the muppets and 2001 better than emma peel marilyn and cindy crawford's beauty spot the b-side of abbey road hendrix the first man on the moon space-mountain santa claus bill gates' fortune the dalai lama lazarus raised from the dead schwarzenegger's testosterone shots pamela anderson's lips woodstock rave parties sade rimbaud morrison and castaneda better than freedom better than life"
- julien jeanvier