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Today was the last day of classes of this semester (Fall 2006). I’m kinda wondering where the hell two months went.

The four-hour lecture felt like it was going on forever at times, but flew by at others. I tried to pull a Hannah (but not sleep sleep), but as comfortable as the place is for lectures, getting into a suitable nap position is downright impossible for me. During the lecture, Hannah (the only one who was hungry) kept waving our nasi lemak (which we decided to go buy after walking into class and finding out it hadn’t begun) packets at us, hoping to convince us that we were hungry too so that we’d eat with her. Didn’t work though. We had it during a break, after which Lavan and I moseyed (I can’t believe that’s an actual word!!!) over to Maxis cuz I desperately needed caffeine (I can’t believe I just…typed that…) after the late, late night/early, early morning.

I was all set on my lil can of Nescafé (coffee in small doses, I can tolerate. Blech.), but when we walked past San Fran I just stopped and stared at the poster for their Christmas specials (you know what that means...Christmas is here-ish!!) – white chocolatey goodness. I figured that if I didn’t get one then, I wouldn’t have it ever, so I got me a white chocolate latté. V says it was excellent, and you should definitely take her word for it, not mine. For me, it was okay (after two sugars), but not hot enough, I think. And it didn’t really taste like white chocolate. Bloody thing cost almost ten ringgit…for a small!! That’s like nine Nescafés!! But San Fran was all Christmassy like :)

So later, the bunch of us piled into V’s car and went to Burger King in Hartamas (anything but KFC) for a little celebratory lunch. We eventually ended up in the below-mentioned lecturer’s office again, this time with the boys in tow. I’m beginning to see it as a confessional booth place thing, rather than an office, really :) But good times.

Seeing as how I can barely keep my eyes open. I can’t even finish that sentence. I could've sworn I had more to write.

clock-stopping and portable defibrilators

Getting back into Hannah's car after class today, I thought to myself - didn't i JUST get out? Two whole hours went by so quickly! And there was lunch (not for me, tho'...) too! Not that I'm complaining or anything, but hello! It's almost December. December!! Then the year will be over, and a WHOLE new one, which I'm not really looking forward to for reasons that will not be discussed at this point, will begin. STOP THE CLOCKS! or at least slow them down a little!

Class went by really quickly. They were having some Career Fair thing in the lounge area. GE, Shell, KPMG, Ernst & Young...all these big names were there. I kept thinking to myself that it was a really good opportunity to. You know. Whatever. But I also kept thinking to myself that I had absolutely no reason to go talk to these people. It's not like I actually know what I want to do when I graduate, except to wander around the world for a bit. But I couldn't exactly tell these people that, could I? So we filled in this Shell thingy, just for fun. I still wish I had something to say to them, or something to ask them.

When I got home, my brother and I decided to go watch Casino Royale. It was totally spontaneous, spurred by the fact that there was absolutely nothing on tv, and I kinda wanted to chill after finishing my last report/assignment thingy for the semester. So we bought tickets online, and went to watch it, even though I said I didn't want to the other day.

On the way to GSC, we stopped at Rock Corner, and they were playing Lyla =D If you don't already know, I recently developed a thing for Oasis, all thanks to Durvesh. He totally converted me. If you, the person who is reading this, have the power to make them come and perform here, please do so and I will be eternally grateful. If you could also convince Robbie Williams that we have running water here in Asia, you would also have my eternal gratitude (cheeky bugger was supposed to perform in Singapore and I got all excited then he cancels due to "exhaustion and dehydration").

Anyway. Oasis. With some help, I managed to locate Stop the Clocks. It was right in front of me! If you don't already know, you can listen to the entire album all thanks to MSN's Listening Party thing here which I totally did, but I think I might still want the album. I have a bunch of songs from it already, and I could just get the rest...it makes sense, cuz I don't actually use my Discman (anyone wanna buy it?) anymore now that I have Mikey, my Creative Zen Micro MP3 player. But I'm hesitating. I don't know why either. But for now, it's going on my Christmas list =D

Casino Royale was interesting. If you don't already know, I haven't ever watched a Bond movie, so I did find the action bits quite cool. The guy in the beginning looked so animal-like! And the cars! And the pocket-sized defibrilator (I don't know how to spell that)!! And at the very end, the scene with some Mr. White, the house by the lake with the mountains...that was SO Switzerland-esque and gorgeous that it made me all sad inside for a little bit. I kept staring at the house and the lake and the mountains and completely missed what was going on, just that he was shot or something.

After the movie, I went straight for tuition (me being the tutor, not the other way around) then straight for dinner, then straight to the tv for Amazing Race (they went to Morocco dammit!) and House and now I'm in bed. I'm probably going to skip my four-hour class tomorrow. It's completely scary that our finals are next week, but I don't honestly think I'm going to study.

Song for today - I actually didn't listen to any music while writing this, which is really, really odd. So I'm going to go with the song that's in the beginning credits (are they really called beginning credits?) from Casino Royale, although I don't reaaally like it (it's not bad), which is You Know My Name by Chris Cornell, who is the lead singer for Audioslave.

sleep deprivation and altered perceptions

So I didn't get any work done yesterday. But in my defense, I had a presentation today. It was good, I think. Even though all I had to talk about was our intellectual strengths…a bit of a challenge to do without sounding yourself up, but ohh well.

I had an interesting chat with a friend last night. Thought-provoking. She said something that made me look at things so differently, and that helped HEAPS. I also talked to another friend who’s not doing too well, and another for all of five minutes, which made me wish I was nocturnal so I could have stayed up longer to talk to her. And I played Diner Dash. It's addictive.

There are things happening that I should feel more about, but I don’t. I don’t know if it’s the sleep-deprivation, but I just don’t want to think about anything. It’s like I’m putting it all away into a little folder to deal with later, or something. Which probably, isn’t the best of ideas because I do know I care and it’s just confusing and things…

But whatever. I have a weekend of report-writing to look forward to *jumps up and down excitedly*


Song for today – Set the Fire to the Third Bar by Snow Patrol. I didn’t really like the song when I first listened to it. But the second time I did, I didn’t stop. You can SO hear the desire and utter yearning in their voices.

And miles from where you are, I lay down on the cold ground
I pray that something picks me up, and sets me down in your warm arms.

On second thoughts, Wonderwall by Oasis.

There are many things that I would like to say to you but I don’t know how.

it's been a while...

it has been a pretty uneventful day, being a thursday (my day off). i got out of bed at eleven, and kept switching between miami ink (i love.) and the american music awards, waiting for snow patrol to show up. they performed 'chasing cars', and you sure as hell don't need me to tell you it was amazing. i can't imagine what it would be like to see that live. i might faint from all the emotion, i think. a friend of mine has watched them live. and another one is going to soon. why does no one come here?? japan is on their list, why the hell not KL? or even Singapore??

i was supposed to get started on yet another report, but that hasn't really happened yet. i know, i know. but ye of little faith, it's only 7ish. i might still do it. i promise i'll try. i'm not turning into a serial start-at-the-last-minute type person.

yesterday. yesterday was something. i had an early, early, four-hour long class, followed by a two hour break, which wasn't really a two hour break since we went for this talk thingy about the psychology of homicide. there were some rather morbid pictures, but other than that it was kinda blah. then, we ended up going down to the offices cuz a friend had to see a lecturer. which is where we remained for the next two hours or so. we had completely intended to go for the two hour class that afternoon, our stuff was in the auditorium and everything. but we ended up in the office of another lecturer, and we started talking, and talking, and talking. we talked about all sorts of things. things that wouldn't ever make a "things you talk about with your lecturer" list. it was kinda surreal, but in the coolest way possible. who'd have thought?

i also watched Accepted last night with my brother. it was a good movie, the kind where you laugh out loud and leave with a smile on your face. it was a good break, even though i got a pretty random sms during it. someone thought i was with someone else cuz the someone else was also at the movies. what are the odds of that happening.

song(s) for today - i'm torn between boston by augustana (which i just listened to) and it's been a while by staind (which isn't new. i've liked this song for a long time, but i just got it last night from j). i think i'm going with staind. the raw emotion is appealing right now. yeah, i'm definitely a sucker for depressing music.

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and it's been a while since i've seen the way the candles light your face.

and it's been a while, but i can still remember just the way you taste.

morbid blisters

So the rather morbid literature review has been handed in, and the adolescent needs or wants or interests or whatever presentation is over. Now I have just a little time to breathe before having to get right back to work again. I’m in class now (ZzzzZzzz), and my feet are totally killing me. I have blisters on my blisters, I swear. My pretty shoes are definitely not meant for walking – I learnt this the hard way. 4 p.m. seems like forever away…

I’d cheat destiny just to be near you…

Do you think it’s possible to cheat destiny? Or more importantly, do you even believe in destiny? That your entire life was mapped out for you, right from the moment you were born. That everything you do, feel, think…it was all predetermined, and you are now merely living out this master plan for your existence?

I don’t think I’ve ever questioned destiny. You know how sometimes people say that whatever happened was due to fate? Seems a bit like an excuse. There’s got to be more to life than that, right?

Oh, but wait...I just remembered that one of my earlier posts was about the Three Fates of Greek mythology. So maybe I do believe in fate? But that sounds so unlike me…

All I know is if I don’t get moving with my literature review, I’ll be screwed, destiny or no destiny.


Song for today – Wreck of the Day by Anna Nalick. That’s where the title of this post is from.

tomato men and laughs

So I just got back from dinner, and I’m waiting for my mother to get off the phone so I can get on the net. Cuz the downstairs phone doesn’t like Streamyx or something, I don’t really know. I feel a leetle bit sick, cuz all my cousin and my brother and I were doing throughout dinner and all the way home was laughing. I honestly can’t remember the last time I laughed so much. Apparently, I was as red as the contents of the ketchup bottle on our table. And I honestly have no idea what was funny enough to elicit the oh-my-god-I-can’t-breathe-my-belly-hurts-so-bad kind of laughing. We even made a little man with the salad they served club sandwiches with, which for the record I know is really bad, but sometimes you just gotta have some fun, right? His face was a slice of tomato, he had an onion sliver unibrow, parsley for eyes, a bit of a French fry for a nose, and another onion bit for a mouth. Then, we got creative and gave him a body, arms, legs and shoes. Just for kicks, he got a flag and a bunch of parsley. The look the waiter gave us when he cleared the table was quite priceless ;) I just wish I had a camera for the tomato man.

So I’m off to polish my halo, it got a bit scuffed I’d say...But two posts in one day? I’m impressed…if only I didn’t feel quite as sick lol *turns green*


Song for right now – Hot Girls by INXS. Totally fits my mood. Okay that sounds a bit wrong, but I mean the song, not the girls!

back where i was.

Bless me, (insert appropriate heavenly figure here), for I have (insert appropriate verb here…come now, not blogging isn’t exactly a sin is it…). It has been 599 days since my last…confession. These are essentially confessions, aren’t they?

599 days is 51, 753, 600 seconds. 862, 560 minutes. 14, 376 hours.

Don’t you just love the internet? Or media, for that matter. I have never been to confession, yet I know exactly what to say. I might even argue that I have had no reason to go to confession, but we both know that’s not true, even though I point out my shiny halo on an almost daily basis.

But honestly, the fact that this hiatus of sorts occurred doesn’t really surprise me. It was quite inevitable. 599 days does seem like a lot, though. The point is, I’m back. And I’m thinking I might keep this up. We’ll see how that goes.

A lot has happened in the 599 days since I’ve been here, and when I actually have the time, I’ll go through whatever I remember. That seems important. I remember checking to see if this thing still existed a couple of months ago, and I glanced at one of the posts, and I just went, “ouch”. It’s weird reading about how you felt about something (or someone) aaaages ago, almost like it all happened to a different person or something. Notice how that always happens? You think what’s happening to you today is the hugest thing that could ever happen, and that nothing could ever top it. Next month, you won’t even remember what the big deal was.

The recap isn’t happening now, though. But what is happening now is this – I love my friends. I seriously do.


Song for today – Back Where I Was by The Hereafter (nothing to do with the title of this post, that just happened...).This song was on the train wreck episode of Season 2 of Grey’s Anatomy. I’d describe the scene (cuz it’s perfect) but I know how I hate to have the good stuff spoilt for me, so I won’t. Go watch it for yourself :)