dell goes boom...

my laptop's crashed on me. crappy... so i'm in the library now hoping to watch the lectures that i'm lagging behind in. got a rather warm corner though. luckily i've got an external HD, otherwise i'd be cursing and swearing alot more than i am right now. i can't even get into windows. oh well... it was a free laptop. shit happens...

this past month has really been a tough one indeed. nothing much to say about it here i guess. just that life goes on... it's just the inevitable. i just hope i end up more like my grandpa than my grandma. not the way they went, but the reactions after they left us. may god bless them and keep them safe and warm.

As I'll bleed my heart out to show

recessssssssssss

it's been a while. due to a number of reasons. life has gone on as usual. the world has had it's ups and downs. well more downs than ups from what i can see. the ups were singapore finally winning another olympics medal i guess. and the paralympians are goooooooooddddddddddddd!!! it just proves that singaporeans can do it, and don't have to rely on imports to help all the time. all we need is belief.

well that was the only up i could think of hahaha downs... lets see... the us economy is crashing big time, more bombs blowing up, chinese milk is screwed up, natural disasters are tearing the world apart. yeah that's basically the summary of it hahaha china is really lucky that the milk scare came after the olympics. just wondering how many people who travelled to china during the olympics period are rushing to the doctors to have their kidneys checked.

quite a bit has happened at home too. my grandma left us 3 sundays ago, my grandpa's not doing too well in hospital now. and i might not be staying here much longer. basically what's going on at home kind of sucks, but it's life and i just have to take it as it comes. can't complain too much because my parents probably have it worst off than me. especially my dad. been living here for over 50 years. yeah i'll miss the place but... what's done can't be undone, by anyone, because of what's been written.

anyway life in hall. life in hall. life in hall. it's been alright i guess. made a few new friends. of course not as many as my roomie since he went for orientation. but it's enough. took part in a couple of IBGs so i'm not a complete ghost in my block anymore at least. will i be staying in hall next school year? nope. not enough points. didn't even start trying hahaha the amount of work that has to be put in which would take up time to study just isn't proportional to the benefits i'd get from the points. so why even bother starting, right?

so many new games coming out, and absolutely no time to play them. uni life is hell. a levels was so freaking easy. mr ho's maths seems easier and easier as each lecture goes by. i miss the company too. hopping from class to class by yourself can be quite miserable sometimes. just meet friends for meals inbetween. say a random hi-bye now and then. 4 years of shit work to come. and all for a piece of paper which might not even say 1st class.

every action in this world will bear a consequence

it went with them...

early this morning t19 left for hong kong. would've been with them if it wasn't doing special sem. just as i would've gone to europe again with my parents, and i could've gone overseas with wendy. just these 3 months of "extra" school has cost me alot of opportunities, i just hope i don't regret it with exams just a couple of days away.

just as t19 left for hk, my voice is oddly leaving me today too. this morning i was fine, except for the sore throat that's been plaguing me for the past few days. then this afternoon, somehow something snapped and now my voice is just... well... off hahaha just like how many and clar lost their voices a while ago, it's my turn now. this is really the oddest sore throat i've ever had. it's just a constant naggy feeling in my throat, but there isn't any pain when i swallow. guess i prevented the fever and flu by drinking all that water, but why'd i have to lose my voice now? =X i just hope it gets better after the exam. taking all sorts of things to help fix it now. lozenges, difflam gargle and wendy's honey and lemon concoction. tomorrow she's going to get me her 'miracle' bamboo bee juice. yes it sounds weird, and it contains exactly what the name says it is, bamboo and bees. of course i won't be swallowing any bees or bamboo... just don't ask me what's in it. it's just supposed to work.

i've made a last minute decision to buy a graphic calculator. didn't manage to buy it today, because bras basah popular, which you'll might know as the biggest popular in town, closed at 7pm! yes... 7 freaking pm. so i'll have to go down tomorrow and hopefully i can get it. it's going to cost me a bomb, but hopefully i can get it, because some of the integration that i've got to do is really driving me crazy. almost as crazy as this sore throat is making me too.

by the time t19 comes back, my exam would've been over for half a day, and i would've watched the DARK KNIGHT, and hopefully my throat would be ok so i can enjoy botak jones and pizza hut. goodnight all =)

for every action in the world there's a consequence

sunday heat

what do you look forward to on sundays? for me... it's definitely the 2 pages filled with comics in the sunday times life section hahaha last time it was just a day to rush homework before school started on monday. sure that's going to start again soon, but nowadays i've got more things to do on sundays! soon my sundays will be either filled with badminton or volleyball. i just hope i can find time to keep my 2 favourite sports activities going... already stopped badminton for quite a while. but if what josh said about the tiong bahru cc thing is correct, then things are looking good! =)

i realise that the viwawa craze has very quickly died out for me hahaha as quickly as it started... it's ended. just like bubble tea and hello kitty hahaha only that with viwawa there weren't any queues =p

i'm missing all the orientation camps in ntu simply because i'm taking special sem now. oh well... don't want there to be too many distractions in school also. not like jc where can play all the way till the last few months and can study like a crazy idiot and still get good grades. at least i know quite a number of people who are going ntu too, so i won't be short of company hahaha

my parents are back! after 2 weeks overseas, both of them came back with runny noses and my mum's got sore feet from walking too much hahaha interesting tales of snobbish froggies and the insane summer weather. played guitar heroes for an hour after picking them up from the airport. i think i deserved it... haven't played for the whole week. just studied my ass off... it felt good to try to catch all those note combos again hahaha

we're all waiting for something... something to come our way

birthdays and exams

past couple of weeks has been eventful. last weekend was probably one of the craziest weekends i've had in singapore. celebrated josh's and vig's birthdays (could've had tini's too) over a single weekend. we had a little chalet thingy actually intended for tini, but oh well... in the end she kenna chicken pox. see tini... that's what happens when you pang seh your class hahaha so now you know what NOT to do ;) my common area became a mini gaming centre for the weekend. xbox, wii and mahjong hahaha josh and i managed to make it to the last section in guitar heroes co-op expert. don't think we'll be able to finish the whole thing... just too damn hard hahaha but oh well... at least we're both now at expert level =p so friday night josh, clar and many stayed over... sat morning gave clar a lift to school, and josh and i went to sheng siong to buy food for dinner. we left many sleeping at home hahaha

the steamboat on saturday night was the best part. there wasn't a single minute where we weren't laughing. and i mean it! just talking about all the crazy stuff we and the people around us did back in school, enough to make us laugh throughout dinner. we even heard kwee's perspective of some things, from mr ho to him hahaha it's cool that kwee still hangs out with us. technically we can call him alex already, but too used to calling him kweeeEEeeEE~~~!!! it's much nicer than say... alexxXXxx~~~??? yeah so we'll stick with kwee hahaha

played mahjong overnight on saturday till sunday 8am. taught chip how to play. many is still damn suay. and it was my best mahjong session ever hahaha then kwee and louis took bus home. vig had already KO-ed on my sofa long long ago hahaha after spending quite some time to figure out how to play guitar heroes =p somehow chip hardly had to sleep... less than 3 hours and she was wide awake already while i was still catching Z monsters on the sofa. many... don't need to say la. sleep sooooooooooooooooooooooo long... hahaha

at night before going to vig's party at spans, we made our way to chip's house first, to see her 42inch lcd tv!!! such a waste... hardly use it for anything. can be put to so much better use at my house hahaha oh well... luxuries of life. not always necessary... vig's party was more like a wedding. and we were so underdressed! guys all wearing shorts, a couple of us wearing slippers. quite paiseh. his family all dressed up so nicely hahaha the funny thing was that vig didn't even know some of the people there at his party!!! that's what happens when your sisters do the invitations for you hahaha the best part of the whole night was when the emcee, whom vig didn't know either, called him up before the cake cutting to say his "thank yous". as he squirmed his way past our table, he mumbled "help". we all burst out laughing hahaha and we knew exactly why he said help, but we just had to laugh.

all in all it was a fun filled weekend with lots of laughs and no regrets (for the people who were there at least) but for now i've got to study for my test tomorrow, and the exams coming in 2 weeks time. crap...

we're all waiting for something... something to come our way