Day 50

ha never thought this day would come...day 50. And, the end of the exams. Phew! From today onwards till the 12th, I'll commit myself to become a viewser and try to catch up with the episodes of DeathNote. Yay!! PLAY!

feeling lazy now....the mad rush for the sem is finally over. This sem has been the busiest so far, nearly took the breath out of me. just glad it's over. Liang asked whether it was bcos the tests were catching up with me or I was trying to catch up with them. I think it was both ways? but more of the later. Too much commitments. Nx sem, i'll do less.

Day 49

3 down, 2 more to go. Perseverance will see me through.

In addition, my hp has been my salve for this wk and the week before. Have to thank Martin Cooper & Matti Makkonen-- the guys who invented the mobile phone and SMS respectively. But then again, the identity of the sender and the time the sms is received makes the difference b/w it's blight or delight.

-Stressed by some people's persistence.-

Day 48

Realised I need to do sth abt my body clock... I only manage to wake up at 8.30 earliest everyday. Snooze fr 7.30 all the way and still can't get my bum off the bed. It wasn't like that 2 weeks before. Looks like my productivity has declined (of all times, it had to do so 2 weeks b4 the exams). *Sigh*

Another memorable encounter with the canteen vendors today. Was with XX and Daryl at the Yong Tau Foo stall today. XX scooped so much Spring Onions into her bowl and mine on the same tray. "Exams coming, must eat more Cong...." she explains. Finally when her bowl was heaped with Spring Onions, she stepped aside and let me carry the tray. The auntie who was observing her in horror "Why is this girl stealing all my Cong??!!" said to be with a reproachable look on her face, "Liu yi dian gei bie ren..." I wanted to tell her "Auntie u got the wrong person..."

It was a bit excessive of us, but according to Daryl, "Spring Onions r very cheap only" Haha, I guess the HSA/MOH's call for "Healthy Eating, Eat more Vegetables" justifies our behaviour? Anyway it's the last week that the Arts canteen wld be open. We just want to eat as much as we can. Will miss the days when we can call our friends and say "Let's meet in Heaven/Earth/Hell" (as the 3 levels of the canteen is called. Most of the time we meet in Hell :D). Well, and I always support the stalls which says ask for more veggies for free. Can't stand the stall which ask for additional charges for more veggies =X

Week 19

Toting horns = Cat-whistle?

This is something i find really amusing. On Wed when i walked out of the gate, this mini lorry toted its horn. There was only me and the lorry, no other soul or vehicle ard so i guess he was horning at me? Plus the driver AND his passenger, 2 middle-aged uncles had their necks craned in my direction.... This is NOT the first time this has happened. And since I was not breaking any traffic law, just minding my own business & rushing along the pavement.... my guess is that they were horning because their 1) their middle-aged aphrodisiac glands were out-of-order or 2) their eyesight was too poor that they mistook an ugly duckling for a swan or 3) the morning sunlight was too glaring for their eyes that they were seeing things.

Leng says it has never happened to her. The only time she notices more stares is when we're tog, so i really shld feel flattered.... Ya, but how can I be flattered when i'm attracting middle-aged uncles in their dingy lorries or at the kopi-tiam!! It shldn't be working that way! My fairy godmother has got it all mixed up. Where are the young, handsome, charming man out there? Haha, aphrodisiac me.

Not that I would have given them a chance anyway, but it does feel good to be appreciated sometimes.....most importantly it would be flattering........ for my Mum ;-)

But I really want to hear it from the girls.... do they encounter such incidents? Are ppl out there just so "bo liao" or I just happen to have an affinity with these "bo liao" ppl?

This jogs back a memory during Cedar days. Cedarians usu. flood the bus stop at after school hours (looks like a flood cos we're all blue). One fine day I was standing in the crowd and this truckload of lion-dance troopers were stuck in the traffic abt 20m away. They started shouting "mei nu" etc. etc. and whistling at the Cedarians.....AND THEN......

somebody shouted...."chuan jacket de!!!"

There was only me.....and only me, in my blue windbreaker at the bus stop....The trauma from being singled out like that!!! I could only pretend I didn't hear them. That's my usual form of self-defense, "see no evil, hear no evil" They're trying to get ur attention, why give it to them?

The same thing applies to meeting perverts. I remember meeting a flasher at the same memorable bus stop once, but that's another story for another day :D

~ Today i had lunch with J at Engin canteen again. For dinner i was with P at Mac. Yesterday I "dined" with WHao and D at the Deck. I hope i get lunch engagements every other day. Today's an accomplishment because I managed to squeeze a successful study session with P. Will do it again nx wk~

Day 47

No more 4 hr meetings!!! Was trying to talk to zy aft the mtg abt my workshop proposal but i think i came across as pretty incoherent, my thoughts were not focused!! E suggested that maybe zy was too handsome so I was tongue-tied but no lar, it was more because my brain was fried aft the meeting. Couldn't think straight.... Think i left a bad 1st impression...

and then, they celebrated the Oct & Nov peeps birthday. But I was left out, even Tim whose bdae was in Sep was celebrated. Does any1 here realise I was left out? Guess not =( I don't think i'm very prominent in de com, but i'm not too obscure either right? I've been in the com for 2 years....Well prob bcos the new welfare head doesn't know me well enough.... must make sure I "be her good friend" this yr so I won't be overlooked nx yr.... But I got to comment on this, she actually sent me an sms on MY birthday to attend ANOTHER person's BELATED birthday celebration on that day. Ouch!

Today we shared ice-kachang tog. I don't know whether to laugh or cry when I'm ard them. They've become so used to my presence now that they start to make insidious references abt "balls, tadpoles, bannanas" in front of me?? This undisguised interest in them abt the birds & bees is disturbing. They're but so young!!

Week 18

The 'new' neighbour offered us 2 red apples yesterday. Said they we from Japan, they bought it on their trip there. I can't fathom what's so special abt that, aren't the Fuji apples we buy from the supermarket fr Fuji? Japan? No? And it makes u think of the Snow White story, when some1 gives u apples...be suspicious... Furthermore, it's the same lady who tried to knock me down the other day. I was walking past her gate and she suddenly swerved in. I had to jump 3 steps back to avoid her car. Isn't she supposed to look before she turns? She didn't even apologise for it, just drove right in!! So what if you're driving a gold merce?

Maybe i'm just ungrateful. Other than the apples there's cheese pie too... Thing is, after they've moved in so long, I still don't know who's living in the house-nx-door. All I know is there's this auntie peering at us from our kitchen window everytime we cook (and especially when Pa's cooking), trying to "tou shi"... Can't help feeling weird. I know they're really rich, their house is elevated 1m above ours, 3 stories higher than ours, they've given us food a couple of times when we've nv reciprociated.... some inferiority complex here, but they seem to have everything already, what can we offer them?

Generousity, is it always a one-way-street? Fr de well-endowed to de less-endowed?