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OMGOMGOMGOMG!!!!!!!

I saw someone reading Iain M. Bank's Inversions on the MRT!!!!!!!!!!

LYK UMG!!!!!! XP

Part of me was going to walk up and ask him if he liked Banks and show him the Banks book I had in my bag, but I was too shy. LOL. And he was glued to the book too -- I was watching him. LOL. As he walked off the train and toward the escalator, he was still reading. XP

I'm so happy. LYK UMG!!!!!

Like d00d. I remodeled. XD

Which reminds me that I need to remodel Kathy's blog too, LOL. So terribly sorry you're stuck with that layout. I personally don't really like it. Ack.

I hope this yellow is a bit more refreshing than the dark purple I had. I did like the cloud picture very much though. O.o This layout's picture is a little different in a sense that I used Photoshop to work with it. Of course it doesn't look any more professional or better or anything, but it's a start. I need to re-familiarise myself with Photoshop. To think the very first image manipulation programme (Paint is not counted!) I learned and used was Photoshop (version 5, it was), way back then! But I had to use a bit of PSP to do the lines 'cos I have no idea how to draw lines in Photoshop and the Pen Tool puzzled me. O.o Ah well. I wish there was more compatibility between the two programmes. They used to be. I don't know why they aren't now. Because I use Photoshop as a middleman so I can edit my images in Painter 7 and PSP.

LOL. As you can tell, I don't need to go to school today. Hurray! There's actually a choir outing, but I'm too lazy to step out of the house. XP

About the no pictures thing? I lied. Because I finally got my ass up to transfer the pics from my phone to the laptop (for some reason, it won't work with my computer!). Took me a couple of tries (i.e. about an hour =.=;) because the stupid thing won't recognise or sense my phone, but whatever.

So I have three pictures of the concert, and you can't see much in them, but whatever, you know? Haha. Click for a bigger version. ^^



This is the view from my $110 seat. I took it at 7.55pm. The concert was supposed to start at 8pm, but you know how things are... it started at 8.30pm in the end.


I have totally no idea during which song this was taken, LOL. This is before his costume change, and he's wearing that white outfit you can see more clearly if you flip to 28 November's Life (newspaper, yeah?). Seriously, you can't see much else.


This is the third picture, which is not so much different from the first, except that it has a different colour. Heh. I can't remember what he's wearing, but it's a open vest thingy. And he's holding a guitar (I think).

I should have taken pictures of the part where he sang Ye Lai Xiang (Tuberose) though, because everyone had feather boas and sequins and stuff, which was really nice. But I didn't, LOL. Then there was this story bit about a boy and his apple tree and whatnot (which I didn't think was very relevant, but nevermind, it's DAVIDTAO). Plus the rock bit, where he sang Gui (Ghost) and Hei Se Liu Ding (Black Tangerine) which had FANTASTIC bass and lights and stuff.

Oh yeah, at the encore bit where everyonw was shouting, one of the crew members decided to play a prank and, in the semi-darkness, sort of ran up the ramp and pretended to be David Tao, LOL. Everyone thought it was him, until the figure turned back. Haha. On second thought, it mightn't have been a prank, actually, but just someone running up to I dunno, fix the mike or something.

Just realised something: I need to remodel. Badly. But I have no inspiration! I don't know what to make anymore. It seems like my inspiration is trickling slowly away.

And I have the tenor part of Gai Bintang stuck in my head. ARGH. Actually, the whole song's stuck in my head. And it's not a good song to get stuck in your head. Nuh-uh.

WAAAA! GREYPRISM WAS DOWN DURING THE WEEKEND! *fumes* I wanted to blog about David Tao's concert. T_T

But anyway, now I have a chance to. Haha! I'm sorry, no pictures, because firstly, no cameras were allowed, and my phone camera is waaay too crappy. Seriously.

In one word, it was AWESOME. This was my first ever concert and I tell you, the experience is BOMBASTIC. And another thing, it was LOUD. But most of all, David Tao's voice was SUPERB. I loved every minute of the show. Oh yeah! And I met my choir seniors there, Fel, Charm and Ern Theng. What a coincidence! I didn't even know they were there until they called my name. Haha.

AND, David Tao sang my favourite song of all time, Dear God. XD Because it was toward the end of his repertoire, I was almost afraid he wouldn't, but it was a great way to end the concert. He did about three songs for the encore (I think... I have bad memory), and he went down to shake the hands of fans two or three times too! You can really hear his passion and love for music in his singing, and the energy he had on stage was really good and infectious.

Hearing his songs live is really a different experience. The CDs just don't cut it anymore. O.o And I've begun to listen to his songs again! It's been a rather long time since I last listened to them, to tell the truth, and now I'm on sort of a David Tao fever. Haha. XP

Oof, was in school from 8 to 5 today. Tired. At least I don't need to go to school tomorrow. Haha. There are times when I love choir, but then there are times when I don't, especially when I need to go for it when all I feel like doing is lazing around at home. I haven't have had 3 consecutive days of rest so far (yes, I'm whining, deal with it), which sucks. Bah.

Shall go and like... rest now. LOL.

W00sh. It's Friday! Had a really long choir practice today. Felt that everyone was more focused then usual, which was good! Keep it up! However we can still do so much more, so let's strive for it. Performance is just in one week's time!

Watched Zathura yesterday. It wasn't bad. But I felt that Jumanji was better. It had like, plot. LOL. Zathura was just... entertaining... and very shallow. It's a kid's show, if you really want to be specific, so I shouldn't criticise it so much.

Talking about movies, I WANT TO WATCH NARNIA, UMG LYK!!!!111~~ XP

Nothing much to say. Er. Maple needed to be patched! So I was Maple-deprived for a few days. T_T But I have it back now! All they did was to make it more JMS-ish. Interface and all was changed. Big deal. =.=; Some new Cash Shop stuff. Not bad.

OH yeah! I remember something I want to complain about! Hwa Chong is really a stick in the mud. Side gates at the bus stop are closed from 7-something am until 1pm, which means that if your CCA starts at like 9am, you have to walk all the way to the big gates!!! EVEN IF IT IS RAINING. Which is a HUGE pain. I mean hello, these are the HOLIDAYS. Good Lord. And today they weren't even open. I was leaving school at 4pm and the gates were closed! Like WTF?

Haha. *calms down* Yeah. Am supremely pissed at that. F5!! >:O

Have been downloading A LOT of Korean Drama OSTs! And they're superfast too. Finished like 6-8 albums in two days.

Going for Tao Zhe's concert tomorrow!! I'm so excited. XP I can sing almost all his songs. I think I better revise them before I go so I can singalong!

As you can tell, I'm quite hyper. I have no idea why . O.O

Cindy: Hello! Corpse Bride was an awesome movie, wasn't it? I bought my soundtrack from Sembawang (the CD shop, not the place, LOL), $16 or $17, I can't remember. And DON'T buy from HMV 'cos they'll rip you off -- it's like, $22 there. O.o

Since I've started a post, I might as well blog. Helps me to remember what to write for my TAG journal anyway.

Went for home visits today, as well as yesterday. I don't really know what to say about them, really, just that I feel so very thankful for everything that I've got. Most of the patients referred to SCS are usually terminal cases with a prognosis of about a year or so, some even less.

Yesterday we visited four patients. There's nothing much to say about them, really. But I'll give some brief information about them.

The first patient has nose cancer, and to me, he looked pretty energetic and he could walk around and stuff. However his HDB estate was going through upgrading, so there was a lot of dust and noise about, not good for a nose cancer patient at all. However from what I hear from the nurse, he doesn't have much time left. And cancer takes patients down a very steep slope in a speeding car.

The second one we visited has cancer of the larynx, and is one of the members of the New Voice Club we sat in last Tuesday. He lives with his childhood friend because his home is in Thailand although he's Singaporean. However he's under a lot of stress because his friend and wife quarreled because of him and his stay in their house. He also has not enough money because he eats out every day for three meals, and out of his $200 check he gets from welfare and subsidies and suchlike, he gives $100 to his friend for board.

The third one we visited had rectal cancer which metastasised to his liver. Ooo, new word! Metastisis is a process whereby cancer cells are transferred from the original site to other sites in the body usually via blood. Also known as a secondary cancer or growth. He was bedridden, and the nurse said he would probably only have a few more weeks left to live.

The last patient we visited has had nose cancer since 1993. Because it has sort of spread to surrounding areas, he can't talk or take food orally due to constriction of his oesophagus, and is thus very frustrated because it has been so long and he hasn't been cured. He takes food through a tube (can't remember the correct technical term) in his abdomen, and then only liquids. He also has a strained relationship with his wife, who shouts at him in Cantonese, but I don't think it's her fault really, because her husband refuses to communicate with her, and throws tempers. She has many problems to deal with herself, because she has to support the whole family (they have two daughters), as well as cope with her own health which isn't all that great either.

The patients today didn't really leave such a great impression on me (i.e. I didn't write notes on them down, so I can't really remember ><) They were mostly elderly though, but they all seemed rather okay, meaning that they could walk around and talk. There were two patients whom we were not allowed to mention their condition to though, and we were discussing how they would eventually find out anyway, and I personally feel that they have a right to know because it's THEIR BODY and THEIR HEALTH we're talking about. But oh well, some family members are overprotective. However they do have a point in trying to protect the patient, because some lose hope after hearing that it's cancer that's slowly eating away at them.

Anyway, at about 4pm we went to Alexandra Hospital to sit-in in their Multi-disiplinary Meeting where doctors and medical staff from different aspects of patient palliative care. It was quite interesting, in a sense that these were real doctors discussing real patients. And we were made to sign a confidentiality form too, so I can't say what we discussed during the meeting, but some bits are fine. Like, they brought up the topic of palliative care and how it toes the line of euthanasia, which I thought was really interesting and good. Medical ethics is a really interesting topic.

Okay. I have like, run out of steam to write anymore, so I'll stop here, abrupt as it is. Nothing much else happened anyway. Choir tomrrow. dlfjsdlf.

Did some cool stuff at TAG yesterday. We finished shelving the library books and doing a brief stock take of the books there. After that we we watched this video on Breast Self Examination. LOL. Because they stopped us to watch the video before we were finished with the books, after we were done with the very, er, informative video, we went back to finish up the stock taking.

After that, we were told to replace the expired FOBT kits with new ones. FOBT stands for Faecal Occult Blood Test which tests for the presence of blood in stools, indicating the possibility of polyps in your large intestine. In other words, colon cancer. So we sat in the conference room and did more manual labour, but this was a bit harder than cutting the flaps from the donation bags 'cos you had to pull out staples and such stuff. After we finished, we went for lunch.

Lunch was a two-hour affair, or rather, we had two hours for it. LOL. So we walked to Tanjong Pagar Plaza for lunch. It's a very neighbourhood-ish place, with shops like the ones you find near your house. People who work in the Tanjong Pagar area are VERY lucky because there is A LOT of variety of food to choose from, and the food centre that we went to above the wet market is a prime example. There was a lot of good food there, but because we went during lunchtime, it was terribly crowded. Hui Zhong also went to cut her hair. Haha. For $8. And it wasn't bad. So the rest of us walked around the place and went to NTUC to buy stuff that we're going to give to the staff at SCS, who have been supernice to us.

After lunch, we went back and slacked a bit, read some books from the library we just shelved (which is like, superneat now, haha). At about 2pm, we joined some of the staff for a briefing on how to operate this new, automated FOBT testing machine. I can't remember the name of the machine because I have terrible memory, but anyway it was kind of boring listening to the guy talk, but the conversation between him and the staff was quite entertaining because one guy, Alex, was trying to put the presenter in a bad position, telling him how the machine was not well designed and all, but in a joking manner. After the very long presentation, which was meant to help the staff make up their mind whether or not the buy the machine or not, we were allowed to do a manual FOBT test ourselves. It's quite simple really. Take the test kit, open it, then put a strip in. Wait a few minutes, and see how many lines there are on the indicator strip: one line means it is a negative sample, and two means a positive sample. If the sample is positive, the society calls the patient and refers him to the hospital for further checkup. Out of the 14 we did, there was one positive one. O.o Scary.

Today I transfered all my old files from my old computer! A whole 5 months after this new computer was bought. Heh. But I love my old files! All sorts of documents and stuff from waaaay back in 2001. And my prized projects and files and stuff... they're really nice to go through. ^^

Need to sleep. But I want to watch my VCD!! Now I'm watching Yeo Ja Man Seh (여자만세)... erm, roughly translated, Cheers For the Women? Argh. Dunno. Korean titles are super weird when you translate or romanise them.

Wee! I love Chae Rim... she's like, really cute. XD And I think she's pretty. I've like, watched almost all her shows. I also like that guy, Soh Ji Sup, and I've watched some of his shows... think he's cool looking. Haha. Although his characters are always the silent type -- he never speaks much. He's good at crying though, LOL. Lotsa tears, especially since I just finished the other drama, that Sorry I Love You one, where he cries like, a superlot... okay. I think he's shuai. But not VERY. He just... you3 xing2 you know. Haha.

Okay, whatever. I shall stop fawning over stars you know. Very immature, yes. Have... TAG... tomorrow... must... wake... early...

Guess I should, you know, post something. Finished that Korean drama I was watching. It has a good plot, and shies away from cliches, but it didn't really move me until the very very end. Haha.

And I guess I also should write about my TAG experience, seeing that I'm already on my 3rd day.

Overall, I would say it's a fun attachment, although on the first day there wasn't much to do and we got to go home early. I also got to make more friends, i.e. the people whom I go on this attachment with, aside from Jocelyn, who I know from choir. And unlike some other attachments where you're going at it alone, the four of us work together, so it makes things less boring.

On the first day we were given a short powerpoint briefing thingy, introducing us to the Singapore Cancer Society and what it does, blah blah blah. After that, we were shuttled off to eat some early lunch, more likely because they didn't know what to do with us. Haha. Anyway, came back to join one of the support groups, the New Voice Club, which is a support group for throat cancer survivors. I think. They've got their larynx removed, so they can't talk, eat or breathe like normal people do. Instead, they have a stoma (hole) at the base of their throat where they can do all these things. The members were mostly men in their 60s or 70s, and they were extremely friendly, as well as adamant that we do not ever smoke. They're avid ping pong players, and we lost to them every time. XP

On the second day, we were attached to the finance department. We began the day with putting receipts and address labels on envelopes, and then after that filing receipts which got returned due to invalid addresses, etc. They were quite annoying to file because some of the files were huuuge, like, 10 cm thick, and you had to match the month and year as well as the receipt number to staple it back. So yeah. Finance has A LOT of paperwork to do 'cos the money in-out thing needs to be recorded really carefully. After that, we helped to cut the flaps of their donation bags. See, their donation bags have this flap thing at the point where you insert a coin. But this has caused a lot of problems as money tends to get stuck there, so we have to cut them off. Yup. So we spent the rest of the day doing that, and we found like, $91 in total from those bags. Haha.

Today, which is the third day, we continued cutting the flaps out of those bags. It's tedious, mindless work, and we finished all of it. We did 3 sacks yesterday, and then one more sack today, plus 5 boxes. One sack had about 200+ bags in it, while the box easily had two or more times more of those bags. Phew! We're fast, efficient workers. XD We also tidied up the storeroom a bit, and stacked some of those left-over sticker sheets properly. Oh yeah, we found A LOT of money today, like, over $100. We also learned a lot about fund raising 'cos the person briefing us (notice that I can't remember names, LOL) speaks very well and eloquently. We would have had a lot more fun if we came during the end of October (when we were slogging away for PW =.=;), 'cos we could have helped out with the preparation of the charity show thingy. XD Anyway, after finishing the bags, we went for lunch, then came back to help tidy up their little library thing. Their library has books related to cancer (duh) and we were supposed to shelve them properly. So what we did was to drag everything off the shelves and recategorise them. Haha. We did learn one thing though, and that is that there are many forms of cancer, and that they can strike every part of your body. Now we're halfway through cataloguing the books, which are a PAIN, really. Because there are so many missing we have to write them down too. =P

Tomorrow we'll be attached to public education or something. And we have to finish the cataloguing, which I think will be quite fast. I'm looking forward to Monday though, when we will be attached to the homenurses, who go out on visits to patients. Then on Tuesday, we might get an extra bonus attachment day if Alexandra Hospital allows us to go in and take a looksee. XD How exciting.

Phew. I think that's a long post. >.<

Oh yeah, one thing I realised, is to NOT listen to the radio in public, because you'll start laughing for no apparent reason, and that's not a good thing.

Watching the Korean drama "Sorry, I Love You" is bad for my mental health. *sigh* I just love watching these weepy shows because it's just so sad and all and they give you an excuse to cry and stuff, but they also make me feel even worse. For some reason. Argh.

The sweet poison I take.
It makes my heart ache.

미안해요.

in your happiness i drown
and into my lungs water fills
until i choke on your laughter
and my eyes sting with the bliss
of your contentment

W00t, it's my birthday. Thanks to all those who wished me happy bday at the stroke of midnight, as well as all the super people who gave me presents. ^^ THANK YOU.

And I got a haircut. Wee!

Feel that I ought to blog about the class chalet, since it is our first one after all. It was quite a success in my opinion, really. I mean, it can be said that I enjoyed myself, as well as got to know people a bit more. Or maybe I just lost a bit more of myself, because it's a give-and-take thing -- learn a bit more, lose a bit more. But I'm in a pensieve mood today, and everything that I'm saying is rather nonsensical because I'm tired on top of all that.

And one more thing. I left one day early because I have choir tomorrow morning (grrr), so I missed staying the night and tomorrow morning.

Basically what I did at the chalet was bike A LOT because it was at East Coast. Our chalet itself was also very small, and our neighbours were this group of RI boys and NJ people. And Zi Rui brought his PS2 along, which was supergood because it even came with a portable LCD screen thingy! The guys like Eng Liang and Kenneth and Timo and Zhao Wei were playing it like mad throughout the whole chalet, and I think the poor machine has clocked almost 20+ hours so far. It's a wonder it didn't overheat or anything.

We borrowed bikes for 3 days 2 nights at $12, and they were the good suspension kinds. I rode a lot yesterday, so much so that I felt that I wouldn't be able to walk or sit down for an eternity, but surprisingly enough, by this afternoon, I was feeling fine, although just a bit sore in the calves and thighs. Rode to almost the end (towards Bedok Jetty) once, and a once more halfway in that direction, and about three or four times towards the dead-end (towards McDonald's), plus excursions to Marine Parade Promenade twice. Bikes are tehrox. I've decided that I'm a bikergirl! I love biking. ^^ I feel like doing more of it.

I'll never get enough of biking, even when I'm dog tired. I just love the feeling of the cold wind in my face, even though it makes my hair all messy, and the thrill of going superfast. Plus, I've been practicing biking without hands at all, and I'm getting steadily better at it. Now I can turn slightly to where I want to go, for example, avoid certain debris on the road or change lanes and small stuff like that. But certainly not swerves and stuff.

Also, today was the first time I went to a LAN shop. We played Counterstrike as a class of 10 people and it is SUPERFUN. The only things is that I kept on dying and I had the fewest kills of everyone. ANNNND that Kenneth is DAMNPRO. >.< So's Timo and Zi Rui and Yiqun and basically all the guys. But especially Kenneth, whose IGN of none set everyone running in a frenzy. O.o When I had deaths of like, 20+, his was single digit. O.o Which reminds me that I still owe Zi Rui $4+.

Hmm, come to think of it, I didn't really do much at the chalet. But I had fun anyway, and it will be tidied up and filed neatly in my memories, for me to browse at leisure in times that come. If there's anything that I treasure most of all, it would be my memories of the good times that I have. They may not be many, but at least they give me SOMETHING to be happy about.

Something random: there's a big ant crawling about my desk right now. >.<

Argh! Maple's undergoing maintenance!! And I woke up just to play! T_T

Anyway, PW IS OVER. I never thought this day will come, when no spectre of WR deadlines loom before me. Had my group's OP yesterday, and in general, I think it went rather well. Today we'll be handing in our Group Project File and all that, which is so troublesome 'cos everyone has to go to school just to do so. Ugh.

I guess now I'll go watch my VCD or something. O.o

And I think my all-time favourite song will be the one I quoted in the post below. I've been singing it nonstop the whole of last night. LOL. Don't ask me why. It just rocks. ^^

"If the burden seems too much to bear
Remember the end will justify the pain it took to get us there."
- Let It All Out, Relient K

As much as I like Firefox, it's being a pain in the ass by not loading my pages. It can only begin to load my pages when I first load them in IE to kickstart a momentum of sorts. I have no idea what's causing this. I have a feeling it's the proxy configuration or something, but I'm not really sure. Bah. It's infuriating me. And Firefox hates popups, but can only block one at a time! And so it starts slowing down real bad and in general screws up. Oh bother.

Been listening to Relient K a bit too much. I don't want to, because I'm afraid I'll get tired of it because it is SO good, but I can't stop myself. >.<

Anyway! What did I do today? *sigh* Went to school. Again. Had choir from 9 to 3, but had lunch in between, of course. Lunch was a horrid affair. We ate at My Cosy Corner and the food too so damned long to come. Ugh. Poor Karen's food arrived last. Anyway, about choir, we still have SO MUCH to improve on. I really wish I could feel comfortable singing together, just like old times, but so far all our combines weren't really what you would call "successful". And I'm sorry to say it, but I feel tired and sian when singing, especially every time we make a mistake. Blah.

If you read my last post, I finally know why I feel "tired". It's this feeling of wanting to cry, to have a really good long cry, but for some reason, not being able to. The tears just won't come. Ah well. Can someone like, make me cry or something? It'll make me feel better, LOL

Feel like blogging. But have nothing much to say. Haha. Anyway, am sending Yvette a picture of Da En learning how to ride a bike. Or more specifically, Jie Rong teaching him how to ride a bike. It's hilarious. XD *sigh* Looking through old pictures always makes me sad. Actually, it's not really sadness, perhaps melancholy, because the times that had been are always better than it is now. And things were really much simpler then. Not like anything's happening now, really, when you come to it. But I'm not the same anymore, and neither are most people. They've all changed. I don't know if I like it or not. I guess I'd prefer if we had all stayed the same. But change is inevitable and I've got to learn how to accept that.

I'm tired. I don't know exactly WHAT I'm tired of, though. And that I don't have much reason or excuse to be tired. I mean, I'm not doing anything particularly productive. It's just that I'm tired of meeting up with people, tired of looking at their faces and wondering what to do next, tired of going to school, tired of choir (yes I am), tired of coming online, tired of reading, tired of life. I just want to REST, but I'm tired or resting too, tired of sitting around and doing nothing, tired of vegging out in front of the TV, tired of eating, tired of thinking. I guess the only thing I feel like doing these few days is lying down to sleep, and hopefully never wake up. But I know these thoughts are just so me, because I am an escapist. But this feeling does get a bit old sometimes, when you realise you don't have the time to throw everything aside and just be or forget. You'll just have to put yourself through the tiresome motions of eating and sleeping and talking to your friends and pretending to be merry.

Blah. Am feeling a bit confused right now. My whole holiday seems to be non-existant, but that's good, isn't it. Then again, I need to study. I haven't touched anything related to tiresome academia since the promos. And I need to start catching up on stuff that has been done this year. Botheration.

I've been saying I'm tired. But on hindsight, I don't think I'm feeling _tired_. In fact, I don't know what I'm feeling. Hmm.

I'm dead tired. XD Anyway didn't Maple my Deepavali away, went out instead, and came back at 1130pm. Haha. Went out with some people from class, something we rarely do. It was quite fun, actually. Especially since we got to play table hockey which is tehrox. Even tho Wei Jie is zai at it and always wins. Hehe.

Went to watch the new Zorro movie. It wasn't half bad, just that everyone was exclaiming over the integer sign he kept drawing on everything. *cough* Like, a capital Z represents the set of integers in mathematics. *cough* There was a lot of... kissing. In the movie. I thought it was excessive. Even if they're married. O.o; But the little boy is supercute. Hehe. And the horse was coooool. It's a movie you'll wanna watch if you like lots of loud noises and action. Not much plot, but who cares.

Ate at Marche after that. Haven't been to Marche before and I was surprised that there were shops in the basement. O.o The food isn't bad, but sorry to say, I wasn't really in the mood for because I had western food in the afternoon. The Oaks at Tanglin Mall is a super place for a good and affordable lunch in a real American restaurant.

Ooo, which brings me to what I did before meeting my classmates: SHOP. Bought this really gorgeous pair of long pants and a purple jacket from Mango. And three books from Borders. Haha. Borders is having 20% off everything!!! I can't remember how long the sale lasts, but I know it'll be on for one or two more days. Anyway the books were Excession and Inversions by Iain M. Banks (*heart*), and Absolution Gap by Alastair Reynolds. Yeah. So I have the whole trilogy of that space opera by Alastair Reynolds (Revelation Space, Redemption Ark and Absolution Gap). He's a fantastic writer. LOL. I realise I'm back to buying my sci-fi. SCI-FI is tehrox anyway.

I've been listening to Relient K all the time these few days! I'm going to buy their other album, I don't care. They're supersuper good. XD Everyone should listen to them. Pity they're not more well known. I guess Christian rock isn't particularly popular. O.o;

Am blogging while waiting for Yvette to send me the front part of our group's OP powerpoint. Have to submit slides tomorrow. WTF. Sian. =(

Have I said? I've been reading The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis that Karen lent me and I'm absolutely besotted with Caspian/Lucy. X.x; Oh dear. And to think this was a children's book. Have just indulged in my obsession by reading several fanfics which were supergood. Haha. But that aside, it IS really a very good series. I'm almost done with Dawn Treader. I don't want it to end! Seven books seems too short. >.<

Ah well. Had CLAO today. Blah and all that. I didn't study for it at all you know, but I don't think it'd had have helped if I did anyway, because this is just as good as my Chinese is going to get. I mean, whatever I do, I'm still going to write my compositions that way and answer my comprehension that way, so leave me be. I won't fail though, I'm hoping to get a C5 or B4. Or something better. ^.^

Anyway, Deepavali tomorrow. Wee! Public holidays are fun. Shall be Mapling like no one's business. Crap. Haha.

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