Thoughts drift towards the past on Saturday, May 31, 2003...

You are Neo, from "The Matrix." You
display a perfect fusion of heroism and
compassion.
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Grinz. I'm NEO! YAY! :) Hehe.
Oh well. Haven't been posting, cos there's been this competition going on again. Gigahertz. Sigh, last year we went and ended up cheering for our seniors, this year we went again and ended up cheering for our juniors O_o When we someone actually cheer for us??
Oh yay! Though we didn't win, still HCJC rox! :) Grinz. Oh well. 7th team for programming, 3rd team for quiz, we still did ok I guess. Took passport photos today, went to the toilet and (tried to) comb my hair into something nicer. Stupid hair just wouldn't stay up, and spent nearly 15 minutes fiddling with my stupid hair. Ahaha. Oh well. I'd be needing neat photos for all my applications... I doubt they'd consider a person with messy hair for scholarships :p
I think it's the best shot of myself :) First time my hair is actually not scattered freely to the rules of gravity, with some miniscule forces of water surface tension holding it together tenaciously, and only a few stray hairs defying gravity. Haha -muacks foto- I'm narcissistic! Yeah! :)
...and time flies, it's now 12:16 a.m.
Thoughts drift towards the past on Wednesday, May 28, 2003...
Mmm missed out on Monday's entry, cos I just fell asleep after bathing and dining, all the way till the next day. Am becoming very lazy! :) To clear up the stuff unread on monday, spent most my time online clearing mailboxes, reading unread mails, articles, etc, and soon it was 1.
-Grinz- Oh NO! Tmr's GHz competition, and don't even feel like going leh. How how? Sigh, programming speed has dipped much from lack of practice, and not prepared at all... and I'd end up losing lots of curriculum time too. Sigh. Sigh. Sigh. Also lost mood and steam for doing work, and the BTs are coming, oh no! :(
Dunno, seriously don't feel like going for CO nowadays, cos it's just that feeling of others freed of CCA obligations while we're still slogging out, with less time to sleep, slack, stone and all?? Sigh, and all for competiting for the top place, can't we all live in harmony, without such rankings :p
Think I'm going to read up on some trivia before sleeping. Yay. Sounds great :p
...and time flies, it's now 09:52 p.m.
Thoughts drift towards the past on Monday, May 26, 2003...
Sigh still drooling at the iFP-380 player :p
Mmm besides drooling, got up today morning, with the intentions to head down to Mac for breakfast and work. And as usual, woke up early but rose late :p Got to BHCO just about in time (aka slightly late only!)... Today's practice was quite enjoyable, and I learnt faster since there's someone for me to follow. Mmm very dependant on others during CO practices, cos I can't really read scores without knowing how the tune goes.
Wanted to stay back in Mac after practice to do some work, but suddenly felt v sick of Mac (even the fries) and so headed home. Bought vanilla coke for my sis, as she haven't even tasted it before, and lunch for myself. Mmm grand plans for afternoon study dashed when I decided that the pillow was too cuddly and bed too inviting, waking up only hours later.
Watched Matrix yet again, but tried to convince everyone else to watch :p Grinz can't really get sick of that show. Did try to do work during that period, but realised that I should have done Food Chem instead of Maths S, for work done = 0 as I alternated between watching and thinking, and before I knew it I lost the thread of thoughts. -gRinz- Thread of thoughts. Haha sounds like processors and computers :)
Liked this a lot :p Haha still wanna learn sign language some day.
Power Of Silence
About a century or two ago, the Pope decided that all the Indians had to leave Italy. Naturally there was a big uproar from the Indian community. So the Pope made a deal. He would have a debate with a member of the Indian community. If the Indian won, the Indians could stay. If the Pope won, the Indians would leave.
The Indians realized that they had no choice. So they picked a middle aged man named Santu to represent them. Santu asked for one addition to the debate. To make it more interesting, neither side would be allowed to talk. The Pope agreed.
The day of the great debate came. Santu and the Pope sat opposite each other for a full minute before the Pope raised his hand and showed three fingers. Santu looked back at him and raised one finger. The Pope waved his fingers in a circle around his head. Santu pointed to the ground where he sat. The Pope pulled out a wafer and a glass of wine. Santu pulled out an apple.
The Pope stood up and said to himself in silence, "I give up. This man is too good. The Indians can stay."
An hour later, the cardinals were all around the Pope asking him what had happened. The Pope said, "First I held up three fingers to represent the trinity. He responded by holding up one finger to remind me that there was still one God common to all religions. Then I waved my finger around me to show him that God was all around us. He responded by pointing to the ground and showing that God was also right here with us. I pulled out the wine and wafer to show that God absolves us from our sins. He pulled out an apple to remind me of original sin. He had an answer for everything. What could I do?"
Meanwhile, the Indian community had crowded around Santu. "What happened?" they asked. "Well" said Santu , "First he said to me that the Indians had three days to get out of here. I told him that not one of us was leaving. Then he told me that this whole city would be cleared of Indians. I let him know that we were staying right here." "Yes, yes,.. and then???" asked the crowd. "I don't know", said Santu, "He took out his lunch, and I took out mine!"
Grinz. Mmm kae it's late. Nights all :)
...and time flies, it's now 12:31 a.m.
Thoughts drift towards the past on Saturday, May 24, 2003...
Oh yes and I saw the
IFP-380T which I so wanted to buy initially while walking in Sim Lim :( Ahh ok so maybe it didn't look as chio, but still very nice leh! Ah well. One must be content with what I already
have... And I saved probably 50 bucks at least :)
...and time flies, it's now 11:46 p.m.
Thoughts drift towards the past on Saturday, May 24, 2003...
Went shopping for gifts after Maths S on Friday, all these buying nowadays is burning a deep hole in my pocket :( Still thinking of ways to earn some money -grinz- Oh anyway, we ended up in Bugis again, and walked all over the place until the place closed at 10. Oh my poor aching legs ... Somehow they feel even more tired than after running 2.4km.
*ponder* Sometimes over-confidence is irritating, but I wonder if it's just my ego at fault
And I slept all the way. Oops, nope. Slept at 2, because I was converting all my mp3s to 64kbps WMA format so can squeeze more of them into my mp3 Player -gwinz- The work paid off! Doubled the song capacity, with the quality difference almost undiscernable... with the exception of one song. Guess there's too much clipping, the song's recorded at too high a volume. Mmm somehow reminds me of the stupid 741 Op-Amps. Ahhh~
And suppose to wake up early today, but the body refused commands to wake and snoozed on until it's a little too late. Weird how we know we're late, take our time, then panic later ~ Sigh I'm doubly short-sighted, eyes and this.
Arrived at the auditorium and noticed that I'm still early - it hasn't really started. Oh well, settled down and started doing cuttings and foldings... Though it was constantly interrupted by our ever vigliant tutor, sigh.
After it some of us headed off to Venezia. Always ended up buying the 3 scoops although it's so expensive, because it's just so tempting :p For less than half the price of two seperate 1 scoops you can get 3 flavours. Mmm. Went back for CO, where I almost fell asleep several times, effects of the late night :p
Went to Sim Lim next, and glanced through all the shops looking for headphones and charger. Didn't buy the headphones in the end because I couldn't find any nice ones, and didn't know which are cheap and good, but bought some Sony charger for $27. Comes with two 2100mAh batteries, mmm hope they'd last and make the investment worthwhile. I wonder if they seriously mean it'd last 1000 charge cycles... Can almost imagine the battery crumbling to dust after 100 uses :p
Ah soo embarassing. Fell asleep and kept knocking onto the passenger next to me. Well at least after a few times I shifted to semi-conscious mode and was able to control my movements while trying to sleep.
...and time flies, it's now 11:14 p.m.
Thoughts drift towards the past on Thursday, May 22, 2003...
Grinz. My computer crashed. Oh well, it's getting pretty unstable cos I accidentally kicked it... the graphics card is kind of loose I think. And yep, it's going to crash again so I'm typing at top speed and trying to save as often as possible so I'd get
Oh well. It rebooted then. I'd just retype what was lost on the first crash -grinz- Yeah yay I got my 30 points for Napha! Since it's the last napha I'd be taking I guess it's a wonderful end lol. Until NS, that is. Sigh.
Just didn't feel like doing work in the afternoon... You know, that feeling of the infinite stream of work coming your way the avalanche of work working its way down the mountain and crushing over you can't breath can't live just want to go out and have fun outings like the good ol days but everyone's so busy and so am i just hope that it'd be all over soon and be fine so we can be normal for once
Realised that doing work is actually enjoyable if you have all the time in the world. Slowly unravelling the puzzle of the question, while listening to music, doing what I call slack-mugging is quite fun I think. No time restrictions, no burden. Sigh, that's why I think JC would have been more normal if it's 3 years... then polys, CIs and JCs can all come out at the same time eh :)
Oh and did I say that I absolutely adore my MP3-player? Haha :)
...and time flies, it's now 11:31 p.m.
Thoughts drift towards the past on Tuesday, May 20, 2003...
Realised there's just a little too much work to complete. Argh darn. Maybe should have done more work over the weekends :(
...and time flies, it's now 11:10 p.m.
Thoughts drift towards the past on Tuesday, May 20, 2003...
Merciless heat. The temperature's so high that I can measure the heat we're immersed in... using a clinical thermometer, 32 degrees, even when there's this fan blasting wind hanging from the ceiling. Sigh.
Weird. There's a strange optimism in me somehow, as I tapped the expressive terpsichore to my inner beat. Maybe it could be that (somewhat) I'm freed.
Ai well. More work awaits. -peers at empty cup- Darn. That's the second cup of iced water I've downed in the past hour and I think I'm still sweating -checks back of shirt- Yep guess so :(
...and time flies, it's now 08:52 p.m.
Thoughts drift towards the past on Tuesday, May 20, 2003...
Maybe the way to make up for usually sleeping so late... is to sleep after dinner? :p
...and time flies, it's now 12:32 a.m.
Thoughts drift towards the past on Sunday, May 18, 2003...
Weird. I dreamt that I had a lucid dream. But well, the ability to control your dream is rather tempting indeed... Even if it's a dream within a dream. But is it a mere shadow in the cave? What if it is? That we're just a cosmic joke, or even a game, played by some higher order?
The Sims, just a billion times larger in scale.
The Sims, played by an everyday child.
"Mommy, I want to buy The Sims: Earth 2003!"
...and time flies, it's now 11:54 p.m.
Thoughts drift towards the past on Saturday, May 17, 2003...
Ooh well I didn't even flip on the computer switch, was tired and my leg + stomach muscle are hurting like hell. Plopped down on bed and proceeded to delve into the realm of subconsciousness and lowered sensory perceptions... before being awakened my my mum who grumbled on about my wet hair. Made me dry it before I could grab some Zzzs again. Only thing I distinctly remember is the heat, so I opened the window and upped the fan speed.
And yay so Friday's over :) Gwinz so glad I got somewhat near the centre seat of the row for Matrix, but somehow this time I don't feel as much for the movie. Hmm it isn't really as thought-provoking as the first show, this is meant to awe, not provoke much, other than making you contemplate what _truly_ are decisions -mmm- Oh well, I don't blame them, it's hard to make anything revolutionary after the original Matrix :)
Stayed back for a while where we snapped some photos. Oh did I mention I was completely jet black, head to toe, while everyone else wasn't -mutters- I thought we had agreed on the dress code! Heh.
I just don't understand why I can't free myself sometimes from the bond of social obligations. Hell, perhaps it'd be better if I had taken the bus, but in the end I took the red pill and followed them around. Yes, it might have been interesting, but a closed mind remains closed to external influences - a mind makes itself believe what it wants to. Perhaps I could have taken the other pill, and everyone gets to nap on the bus. There's no choice: I already made that choice, and now I have to understand why I did so? *overdose on Reloaded philosophy* Hmm it sure is confusing - and not utterly convincing.
What's worse, when I got off the bus to grab a drink I chose Ice Lemon... And it gave me Sarsi. URGH! Carbonated drinks at that time of night certainly isn't good for the body, was burping like crazy after finishing the drink. Almost zonked out, but dragged my feet for nearly half a kilometer (685 metres, as the crow flies) home from the interchange...
Woke up to a nice sunny day. What a great day! It's 10, the birds are chirping, the sky is an amazing expanse of blue, with cirrus clouds sprinkled haphazardly in the great plain... And I'm getting my MP3 player!
Then I sneezed. The muscles near my stomach contracted, and yesterday's wear and tear to the muscles, brought forth by overenthusiastic practice for standing broad jump, manifested itself to a sudden sharp pain across the stomach.
Sigh. Oh well. Rested a little while, wincing as I massaged the thighs and the stomach. Got up, tossed the passbook into my bag, plus some lecture notes to keep me entertained on the bus, and off I set to make my ATM card.
I probably didn't expect a queue that seems to run to infinity, but it almost seem so, with 40 customers ahead of me, and them taking almost 5 ~ 10 mins each. Headed out to KFC and grabbed an sundae. But somehow I think I ate so much sweet stuff recently even my sweet tooth was subdued, didn't really enjoy the chocolate, maybe it's just my blocked nose, and the muscles, which made me unable to even _run_. "I'm getting aggravated." - Twins
Oh well. Didn't have the mood to read anymore notes, so I gave up, walked to the bank and waited there. Luckily, the bank teller had an itchy finger that sent the queue number rising every 5 seconds no one responded, and it jumped from 93 to 97. The process didn't even take 5 minutes, haha, and they're very efficient eh.
Mmm, realised the people I met today seemed pretty amiable.
Anyway, took 80, then transferred to MRT, before realising it goes straight almost to Shaw Towers. Think I shall not ramble any further, but in the end I got my
iFP-180TC, yay they come with a battery!, and spent the trip home just enjoying the break from monotony instead of doing work. Just felt very jaded then.
Oh well. So I ended up wasting the whole day on the net. Yay. I think I'm going to sleep, and wake up tomorrow and finish up whatever work I'm supposed to finish :)
...and time flies, it's now 09:34 p.m.
Thoughts drift towards the past on Thursday, May 15, 2003...
Initially wanted to do some maths on bus, but then realised that I didn't bring my calculator. -grumbles- And I didn't bring my radio as well! Ahh. Stoned on the bus staring at an equation which refused to be solved, idly flipping my pen around and just staring outside the screen. Numbers swarm my vision as I stare at the insane question, trying to reverse engineer the solution from the answer, yet the solution eludes me.
Arrived rather on time today, unfortunately not so for the rest. In fact they pretty much took their time, and even tried to worm their way out by saying that they spotted Osama in a guitar shop and all that. Headed off to hunt for our gifts in The-Shopping-Centre-Very-Near-Bugis (Em amnesia la :p), but as usual couldn't find much. To someone's wunderful suggestion of PS, we MRT-ed there again. Despite heavy protests from me, I gave in and we trooped off to yet another shopping mall miles away...
Well ok. So we ended up there, and bought nothing. Sigh, and I got tempted to buy food from BreadTalk, so more money down the drain. Then headed to Marina to collect the 20 tickets for tomorrow's Matrix Reloaded. Haha I'd never get to see so many tickets connected ever again! Luckily I had the "foresight" to use my IC number instead of my dads, or else I'm going to have trouble getting it today :( Searched around and found nothing, so guess what, we headed back to Bugis and bought that dolphin we saw earlier on in the day.
Bought it, and some other small miscellaneous stuff... Ended up in a stationary shop "testing" their pens and doodling away, like the Matrix advertisement we drew -grinz-. Haha wow I never knew there's a 0.05 mm tip! Lamed around before heading home...
Got bored of talking, and instead mimed it out as we stood facing each other at the two glass panels perpendicular to the door. Reminds me a little of CO, where I'd always "talk" to Xiquan in the opposite side of the orchestra when we get bored. -gwinz- Hahahaha...
...and time flies, it's now 10:21 p.m.
Thoughts drift towards the past on Thursday, May 15, 2003...
Gwinz.
Haven't blogged for quite some time! Hahaha. Ok, perhaps I'd copy some of the stuff I blogged over from the other blog... But sigh, nowadays I just feel that blogging takes up too much time and just couldn't bear to do so, even when I have all the stuff and time to blog. And I realised that a good layout somehow gives a better mood to blog... so I'm working on a new one :)
That adds new layout to the list of things I want done... Wanted to make an active desktop page so I can put my scripts or maybe even blog on my desktop. Wahaha.
Oh and yay. Been writing much to my mortal, haha... As in I find it somehow easier and less restricted to talk about all kinds of stuff. Even to complete strangers, like the ones looking at CenTaD sign-up board, I just start telling them about the project and encouraging them to join. Haha, somehow that would have seemed extremely undoable during the past. Mm occasionally even to people sitting next to me in lectures. Gwahaa. I'm nuts!
Ok so blogging isn't really a waste of time if I'm typing at full speed, so at least I don't feel that time is being wasted. Essentially, if I don't hit 60 words a minute I'd have started thinking that my brain processes is slow and I need to think about what to write. When I think, then I start thinking about all the horrendous work waiting for me to complete, and I get put off already -gwinz- Ahhh. Oh well. 179 days to A levels, looking on the bright side, it'd be 178 days to my birthday, yay! :)
Simplicity eh. Sometimes imagining yourself to be a child and just ignore all other discriminating eyes seem to be a powerfully cheerful tool. Bouncing around and ignore the world who think you're mad, and perhaps less communicative fear? :)
Spent 8 minutes on this. So I didn't really use up a lot of time. Yay!
...and time flies, it's now 12:13 p.m.
Thoughts drift towards the past on Saturday, April 26, 2003...
Hee I think I sound a little screwed in the previous entry, lol mebbe too tired. And hmm today's 2 1/2 hours of lan-ing really tore a hole in my wallet, and gave me a headache. -ouch-
And mmm I'm supposed to write something, but lol lost my thought routes. Ah shall spam here later then ^_-
...and time flies, it's now 10:45 p.m.
Thoughts drift towards the past on Saturday, April 26, 2003...
It's 4.28am now, and I'm sitting on the benches near the playground, smack in the centre of 4 blocks of apartments. Looking around, I count at most 5 or 6 households who've either refused to sleep or have already been roused from their slumber. Yep, I know it's a screwed time to be blogging away, especially when it's a Thursday, but then I wouldn't be going to school tomorrow, my grandmother's going to be cremated, so I took advantage of it and decided to try finish my Maths S paper questions, as well as some of the physics tutorial questions. Peaceful eh, alone in the dark, weak rays from nearby lampposts illuminating the backdrop, nocturnal insects who apparently can't make enough noise in the morning - but they're sleeping, I guess.
A rare chance, indeed. You wouldn't find me sitting where I am, at this time, for a very very long time. Well. Going to lose my laptop tomorrow, so sigh this is perhaps my last chance to send my fingers across the keyboard and blog mobile-ly. Wow.
Really wonder how I'm going to have enough sleep, but that's another concern for another day ~ or a few hours later, for that matter. Haven't been going online much, with all the funeral stuff going on and on, ack, but I did do work yay, and played less games, double yay.
Eyelids wouldn't stay apart, how? The last night, so much there is to do, in a screwed sense. I find doing things not where they're usually done "interesting", like homework anywhere else but home sweet home with a neat desk and a table lamp. Hee. Err yeah was thinking of bringing the guitar down to practice, but then I'm going to fall dead asleep soon, so err. Ah well. At least the environment is quite good for homework, bright lights, silent except for the strains of music that hang delicately in the air, falling into quiet oblivion not too long after they're created, and well, the night. If only there's a full moon -wistful- Ah I'm screwed.
Wonder if this severe deficiency in sleep is going to kill me one day. Heard that people who sleep too much die early. So does the converse, I guess.
butohwellidunwantoleaveyetifimnotobligedtodoanythinggoanywhereithinkidsituntilthebatteryrunsoutorthesunrisesilovethenightthemusicsoothingsilkysoft
...and time flies, it's now 10:42 p.m.
Thoughts drift towards the past on Friday, April 18, 2003...
SYF is coming soon. And yet I spend so much more time on the guitar than on the erhu, which is staring forlornly at me by the corner.
...and time flies, it's now 08:42 p.m.
Thoughts drift towards the past on Friday, April 18, 2003...
Hehe, so it ended up that I've yet to return my laptop this week, so hmm another week to get rid of the stuff from this comp and transfer everything important back out...
And yay! Finally the weekends are here again... Think I'm already quite used to the holidaes in a sense, just hope for more break rather than school and more school. Still very holiday-ish mood, am unable to lift myself out from this argh must get back the to-do-work momentum -_-
Haven't been blogging much recently, for somehow I no longer know what to blog anymore... Not sure what to write, no nothing interesting to say, for the modus operandi of daily life has settled back onto track. The monotony, urgh, little interesting things happening... perhaps even if they do happen, I wouldn't have the mood or want to even write it down anymore.
Yep, am on bus 82 now, hoping to get home fast, but it's already like 10.15? Yeah, went for the RJCO concert just now, actually erm it's just like most JC performances, ya know, for schoolmates/friends/classmates to come and show their support, not really the high kind of level, not even some of the soloes, methinks indeed that the erhu's tone sounds a little bad, perhaps the Three Gorges solo would have been better with a better instrument.
Wah~ I wanna learn to play the piano :( But now I guess I better stick with mastering the SYF erhu songs, and either learn how to play Classical Gas or Marriage D'Amour on the guitar, or both! :) Plenty of plans after the A levels, and now am so often tempted to go play some games, slack around, the urgency isn't really there yet :(
Think i'm sorta killing myself by not sleeping enough everyday... I really get pretty bad thoughts when I don't sleep long enough, bad tempered especially in the morning with eyes half open and brain not really functioning, just want to sleep sleep and sleep. Wake up, try to settle everything, get on the bus and sleep more. Thankfully, no matter how blurrified I am, usually I'd wake up just at the HC bus stop, haha hope this'd last. Or I should try to sleep more instead of spending the nights awake up till 1 or 2+. Already getting some of the headaches, body aches and eye sensitivity syndromes argh...
Oooh. I wonder if voting people into the council is actually punishing them? But since they enjoy being punished, then that's probably not a punishment, is it not.
Ouch wrist is hurting, the angle for typing is just not right. Hehe, still love this keyboard, quite typist-friendly and pretty quiet too! Compared to the keyboard I use at the desktop which'd probably wake the entire family should I be forced to speed up the key input rate.
Good Friday tomorrow. Thinks at least without a religion, I do indeed have a lot more time to do what I want, as in sleep longer on sundays, less restrictions and all that.
Hmm, and the trend for high-flyers in class seems to be that their name has a letter M in it... though not a conclusive test, it does indeed point out several pretty exemplary examples, guess I'm going to have to change my name to Munyi? Hahaa...
Kaihong is now leaning over and trying to see what I've typed. Hmmmmm he looks a little shortsighed now after just waking up from his little nap :P
Finger-tied again. Think I've exhausted my cache of thingies to blog about lol...
Hmm.
When a parent scolds a child, doesn't the child already know what's right and what's not? Is this already not a blatant display of wanting the parents to help, to interfere, to ask what's wrong? The dependance on the parents to set everything right, saying one is unable to do something or change... Is it in a sense a subconscious need to want the parent to help rectify what's wrong, but often the parent perhaps doesn't know what to do and just scold more? When the communication between parents and child breaks down perhaps it's just a sign that the parents don't know what the child wants, and the child doesn't not know how to put forth his wishes, make the known and defined to them.
...and time flies, it's now 08:40 p.m.
Thoughts drift towards the past on Sunday, April 13, 2003...
Erm yep, guess Imma getting lazii hehe but I just have much to play to do :) Like spending time doing nothing, reading stuff, trying to do work, playing games... Writing your life out on keyboard and screen seems to be of secondary importance.
Was worried on Saturday as I've been sleeping too much. I can never get enough sleep... a sleep reservoir? Hoho :p Yeah just worried cos no matter how many alarms I put (usually 2 or 3) I just cannot wake up... Willpower aint strong enough, my mind is amazing at making lies or deceit to bring me back to dreamland... Muz fight, resist! Urgh! Zzz...
Sigh, and I did almost no work this entire weekend. Sigh sigh. But played lots of games. -brightens up- And beat up the computer many times. Haha.
Urh yeah optimism is contagious, so why don't you all sprinkle smileys :) liberally :) all over what you write and say? :) I'm sure you all feel better looking at messages/blogs/etc with smileys... of course not over:) doing:) them:) like:) this:)
Err yep. I often picture myself playing a secondary role, just helping out instead of going all out, especially in war/strategy games. And when it's up to me to do some serious stuff, I think I'm gonna freak out. Which is why I prefer multiplayer cooperative. Multiplayer against your friends always prevent you from being able to chatter about the game. If you do, you'd probably make the other party upset.
Err yep, after computing, went out LANning wif a few friends, which was essentially a bad idea, for erm shouldn't it be more a class activity than one soo divided? But hmm oh well. Burned 5 bucks, then went for dinner, and also to celebrate Tai An's bdae. Ended up not eating dinner, and spent the entire time pasting little stickers in FHM covering up the vital parts, as a "gift" for the birthday boy :p Nothing much, actually the entire outing seemed extremely screwed, and everyone ended up splitting into homebound team or -watever place- team. And the 5 chinese high guys ended up together again, sitting in PS, eating LJS (the $3.90 meal is worth it! :)) and playing the guitar.
Ended up on the bus on the way home. Am the kind that's not able to sit by and let time pass while stoning, and hence finished reader's digest, to realise I'm caught in the traffic jam. And so I happily plucked out godma's guitar and started strumming/plucking at the back of the bus. Yay. I'm weird :)
Ooh it's kinda late. So i betta kinda start packing my stuff. Yep. Kinda :)
...and time flies, it's now 11:23 p.m.
Thoughts drift towards the past on Saturday, April 5, 2003...
Heard they'd be informing us soon whether there'd be school or none later today. Welll I'm v glad for this unexpected holiday blessing, but hmm well I seriously wouldn't mind a few more days hehe, kinda enjoying it actually ^_^
...and time flies, it's now 12:19 a.m.
Thoughts drift towards the past on Thursday, April 3, 2003...
Yay! I think I'm trying to kill myself by sleeping late lol... But interestingly my whole family is now kinda awake now, hunting bedbugs hmm! Heard pretty much horror stories about those little pesky creatures who keeps people itching and awake throughout the night lol... Hmmmm I sure don't want them in my bedroom!
Yep, somehow the night seems soo peaceful - No reason to be so felicitous now actually, but just looking at the quiet streets, the cold breeze entering the room somehow brings back nice memories... hmm like Genting! Or USA lol. Though hmm it's been years since I actually felt anything dissimilar from our local climate, and no air-con doesn't count! :p
Hmm yep, sigh I wish I could leave the air-conditioning on sometimes, but somehow I'd be reminded as I try to switch on the phantom machine that it isn't there :P The only source of airconditioning is in my parent's room, and my mother is completely against the idea of switching it on. Reasons include it already being soo cold, save electricity, etc etc.
The pale lights emananting from the blocks across, drifting gently into the room, seems to interact somehow with the darkness, swaths of light and dark upon the bedroom floor and walls. Add currents of cold comfy air, and it sort of just reminds me constantly of my old home... waking up when the sun has barely woken from it's deep slumber, as my parents leave for work, listening through the bedroom floors in a bid to hear people speaking in the lifts (yes I can actually hear sometimes!)... looking at the side alley where the cars are parked, to see them drive away.
Lost freedom, in a sense yes I guess. Life was so much simpler then, less obligations to fulfill, less worries to think about, more time to do whatever we wished - But I wouldn't really know what to do with the time. Ironically, as time pass we find more need of it, but less of it available, school, work, friends and all that...
The weather seems great for doing work, somehow. I wonder should I start revising work, or just go to sleep and enjoy the lowered temperature hmm. Oh yes, and I forgot the gentle strains of music the radio is providing, it sure helps improve the mood and atmosphere.
...and time flies, it's now 03:05 a.m.
Thoughts drift towards the past on Wednesday, April 2, 2003...
I think it's a good sign that I'm getting worried about school and bored about games, lol. Time to start working hehe.
...and time flies, it's now 02:27 p.m.
Thoughts drift towards the past on Wednesday, April 2, 2003...
New month, new layout, new entry.
Sigh.
It's now the 4th month.
I'm supposed to be happy still :/
*Happy Sigh*
...and time flies, it's now 01:37 a.m.