Saturday, March 05, 2005
i'm glad. i've gotten back my reading habit.
so maybe it ain't totally right. coz i'm reading mandarin books and not english ones though i did borrow a couple. and even worse, that i'm getting all enthusiastic about reading when the exams are here.
counting, there have been a number of scenarios when i started getting religious about reading over the past few years at all the wrong times. sec 3, i had to finished Gone with the Wind novel and movie just before my finals else i couldn't start studying. sec 4, i finished that behemoth of a novel, LOTR just before my prelims. and interesting to note, over the past 4 years or so, i tended to pick up a chinese novel before the exams. the procrastinating nature in me is quite strong eh?
occured to me on wednesday that i miss np somewhat. manda and i were trading np songs as we ran the boring and strenuous rounds about the campus. all those we used to sing and echo during the morning runs on saturday. but ofcourse, we were so slow that the rains came and we were running in the rain. and since the humongous round consists running outside school, we were really drenched. oh well.
i want my SGH E800C! it's the slide samsung phone which i totally love. sigh. i really should make a list of things i want. an iPod, a whole string of cds. it just keeps lengthening. a digicam. i sound like material girl or something. but before anyone decides to term me rich. i pay for stuff myself. and managing my finances is hardly a laughing matter. and since i'm such a sucker for pretty things, like pink Lindauer strawberry champagne to sophisticated notebooks. and good food, like whole meals to things which you find at cellar door deli. showing restraint is turning into a montrous task. i'm currently trying to save for an iPod and it's not working.
now now, don't dismiss me for being a frivolous idiot. i think lazy couch pottato lard-bag sounds like a more appropriate one. off to dinner now!
Thursday, March 03, 2005
i've got a good feeling. not attributed to any single event but a collection of little things which keep me adequately bouncy.
let's see. i told huilin straightout that i have a problem. that ld has a problem. and that i'm in no ways advantaged with the suggestions i proposed to trying to solve our problem. i don't know if she'll try them. most prolly not. but that's the way i do things if i'm trying to fix something. confrontational. wanna do something? go all the way. and just in case she's reading this. i can give commitment, but it has to be worth the cause.
yihan and i headed out today after school. thursday's a good day for that. we watched Hitch. it's okay i guess. not really that great. it's laughs and all, but i won't watch a second time you see.
and i ate really little today so i'm hungry. 3/4 a slice of bread with peanut butter and a glass of grapefruit juice for breakfast. 2 biscuits at school. half a pack of popcorn and zappel. no lunch. there's this thing about popcorn. it makes you wanna eat it. and it makes you awful sick after that.
we went to kino after that. i got Girl, Illustrated(mandarin version). you're prolly wondering what i'm doing with some fann wong book. dunno, i just sorta like her that's all.
more importantly was heading to library@orchard. i've almost forgotten how it work. i've used the library facilities like 10 times in my life. fine, maybe 15? the cool thing is, after trying like 5-6 times, today Girl with a Pearl Earring was there. i also borrowed Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert.
also, i changed the webby link for gilmore. this new site has till season 5!
righto. shall go have dinner.
Monday, February 28, 2005
skkeery.
i realise how you can never truly be in control of your life. even at your greatest, in controlling your choices and decisions, you can't quite ever control the consequences and the reactions of others such that, ultimately there's still something you can't get quite covered.
a few simple examples. i bought redken shampoo for my hair. which is cool, coz the smell's good and it makes my hair nice and soft. only con is that it's 50 bucks. problem is, my hair didn't quite take to it so it started falling out. so i'm back to dear ole trustee sifone.
then i'm on a no meat for one meal a day. that rocks coz i'm totally getting the hang of it. especially cool since school food is one of the most unhealthy meals and i'm avoiding all the bad stuff during school time. haven't eaten a prata in 2 months. no chicken rice in 2-3 weeks. that kind of thing. and since you don't really eat meat for breakfast, i can go for 2-3 meals with no meat in a day. thing is, you can't control which parts of your body which you wanna lose. and of course, i ate loads of duck today for dinner! yum. sorta defeated the purpose.
but nonetheless, it gives some measure of control. like you're taking a step to positively correct your bad habits.
the J1s got back their results today. the last batch of JAEs. got me thinking, i've come full circle now. ya know, a year on. cher was wondering about regretting certain decisions. but you know, lose some, win some.
i gave somewhere and got compensated. and no less. a year of derailment and back on the tracks. i'm blessed too, i just have to learn how to count them.
