Exhausted.

I’ve never lost appetite before, but I think when extreme exhaustion hits, I have an extremely small appetite, and it scares me. Okay fine, maybe not a lot, but a teeny weeny little bit.

The weekend of SWC09 is over, but it was soooo (to the power of infinity) much fun ferrying the swimmers, talking to them and handling matters at the secretariat office. I miss my girls (S&E) already! Of course, ST was ever so supporting to everyone and I’m sure he appreciated all our help there, be it real work or just pure entertainment.

I might be in danger of losing a bet and having to treat one of my girls to Royal China dim sum @ Raffles Hotel – but we’ll wait for the day to end before I know if I have officially lost the bet. We just need to wait for the swimmer to fly out of Singapore before the bet officially ends.

BX has been wonderful through this really busy and tiring period, he ferries me (via cab) because I was absolutely in no shape to take public transport home, and he came for the sunday finals where 3 world records were broken! Though he did admit it wasn’t his cup of tea because he’s not involved in it, I really really really loved the fact that he made a point to come down and watch, and to wait around for me while I ran around like a headless chicken trying to coordinate the transport and shuttle services.

Lovesloves to my boy. (:

I am honestly suffering from withdrawal symptoms for SWC09. So tempted to go down and look for them for dinner later, but I’m still really tired. All I want to do is to sleep.

Snores.

Anything beats sitting in this lecture listening to somebody preach about salt intake. Yawns.

Embracing the Internet.

I’m blogging on my laptop as 187 moves from Woodlands to Boon Lay, on my not-that-new broadband device. The thing about having a really light and portable laptop, is that the screen is really thin and flimsy. My screen is flapping as the bus moves up and down, across bumps and humps on the road.

I tweeted this morning and a friend thought my meeting ended earlier than expected in school – he commented on FB about it. But I was nowhere near a computer ( my laptop and dongle were not out in action) – I used my G1. So it then made me realise, I’m truly connected to the Internet at any one time (be it through laptop, when I’m on the move and even through my handphone) – I’m so reliant on it! The internet holds alot of information for me, be it educational or personal, my entertainment and readings are heavily acquired from online resources, and I wonder – what would the world be like if you were to remove the Internet from everybody’s lives?

Not pretending that the Internet never once existed, but removing the Internet now when everyone is so accustomed to it.

We can do so many things online, reading the news, getting in touch with friends, watching videos and even shopping. In the past we had to use several tools and go to different places to do all of the above mentioned. Don’t you wonder, if the Internet was removed from our lives, if we would be at a loss on how to do the above? Perhaps not the shopping for girls – but I’d be stuck on trying to purchase my ickle&Lardee pictorial book from the States! We won’t be able to discover plenty of new information (be it random or educational), and do many other things as well.

Having said that, we all definitely need some time off from the internet to smell the roses (literally!) and stay in touch with the real world outside and enjoying nature as it is, instead of being glued to the computer screen and Internet all the time.

So I need to unglue my fingers from the keyboard, stop forwarding important emails to the secretariat room and remove all thoughts of pulling out the arrows from my back just in one morning. Cryptic, yes – I’ll tell you more when the time is right.

En route to writing..

my 2250 word essay – since the requirement is a 2000 – 2500 word essay, I shall aim for the in between.

I haven’t had the inspiration to write, to write a heartfelt honest sincere essay to our Education Minister, but I think the engine is starting up, really slowly, but it is warming up. I want to do this in a distinctive way – no academic writing, no crazy quotations from journals all over the place. Just a very sincere and heartfelt letter to the Education Minister about the loopholes and problems in our current education system, and why educational meritocracy is an enduring myth. I’ll write as though I’m talking to him as a friend, talking to him through my blog.

That is my assignment – to write a letter to the Minister of Education and I’ll show the professor that academic writing may not always be the way to go. He seems pretty open about bringing creativity into the classroom, so as long as we fulfil the requirements of the essay – his indented points and his word limit.

I shall try and we shall see.

Current word count: 1893/2250

(as at 0455 hours, 16 November 2009)

Along the process, I got distracted by the following:

• Boyce Avenue
• Ghost Trappers
• Fishville
• Riza’s brother’s wedding
• Budak Pantai @ JP Starbucks (!!!!) – more on that after I finish my essay
• Starbucks Java Chip & Blueberry muffin
• Meeting the boyfriend for dinner @ JP Crystal Jade
• An attempt to purchase the Blu-Ray version of Up, with full knowledge that I am unable to play it on any machines at home – which amused the boyfriend plenty
• Home looking at an utterly adorable dress from Fashion Nation (that begs the question – should I get the light blue ruffles dress? I absolutely love it!)
• Watching the short clip on Married Life, in Up
• Chatting with the Roo!
• Sleeping @ 0030 hours, 16 November because I had to wake up 4 hours later…
• Waking up @ 0425 hours, 16 November and sneaking in a few words before my pick up comes…

Bus rides.

Bus rides always make me think, I’ve pretty much know that by now. I was travelling from the far west side of Singapore this afternoon, to the central part of Singapore where I sit and await the arrival of the girls.

Now I’m wondering how much beans should I spill on this open space. It took me a while to admit it to myself, and to blurt it out as a casual statement last night over dinner with the boyf – to which we didn’t say much because I had no idea how to continue down the conversation because it’s kind of a conversation starter, and stopper – which you probably won’t understand because you have absolutely no idea what I’m talking about.

How fun is that, you’d be wondering.

One thing I do know, is that I desperately need to get started on my 2,500 word essay – which all of us decided to make use of the extended one week our tutor decided to kindly give us. He’s hilarious, I must admit, despite all his extremist remarks – I love the one where he insists that a certain group of individuals in our Singaporean society doesn’t pay taxes, to which some of my classmates tried to ascertain the accuracy.

On a lighter note, I’m glad I got to clarify some matters of the friendship with a certain friend and I’m really glad for the short but significant chat that we had this morning (:

I officially have no more lessons, but I am starting to have workshops organised by the ministry before we officially enter the holidays (wheee holidays!) and then, scarily – the school proper.

I think I need to find somebody to have a heart to heart with – I have too many inane thoughts within me that I’ve been thinking about, but unable to verbalise onto the open space. I miss my besties!! I’m seeing the girls later, maybe later.. Mmms.

Oh, speaking of which – I got my Google wave invite from the Google team – talk about finally!

I’m a Gleek!

The Glee: Music Volume 1 was just launched in the US barely a few days ago and I made it a mission to hunt for an online store that would ship to Singapore. Amazon didn’t, so I was quite put off by that. In the end, I found it available at Barnes & Noble!

I’m actually damn friggin excited – I bought it right off the bat. Well, almost anyway. I almost nearly bought the upcoming DVD launch as well (i.e. pre-order), but I didn’t because I realised (upon a little research) that Fox had extended the original 13 episode season to a 22 episode season, and this DVD box set only had 13 episodes. So I decided to rein myself in and only purchase the 2 music volumes, the 1st that had already been launched on 6 Nov, and the 2nd one launching on 8th Dec.

I figure these babies will reach me by mid December – wooohoo! I had a minor incident with Barnes and Noble though, because my order status stated that the order could not be processed and a number was provided to me on the website for me to call. Hence, I called up the US number and had the chance to talk to the customer service of Barnes and Noble – I must say he sounded really good over the phone. By that I mean, his voice sounded goood, yummilicious in fact. Hurhur.

He was really polite and professional, fixed my problem quickly by double checking my billing address. Now, the order status said its ready to be send on 8th December because I packed them all into one shipment!

I absolutely can’t wait for the arrival of my ickle&Lardee pictorial book, plus my CDs! Don’t worry, the total cost of the CDs+shipping is the same amount as purchasing 2 CDs in our local stores. Perhaps I might start doing all my purchases online and save me tons of money – CDs are cheaper in US, and I found this facial product website that sells TFS products at nearly 30% off the store retail price!

I’m getting absolutely addicted to online purchasing – someone take my credit cards away from me!

Grey skies in the sky..

me likey. (:

Perfect day to just snuggle in bed and sleep the worries away, when the original plan was supposed to be at ToaPayoh, SSA now, to sort out the matters required before next week’s SWC. Class ended late, hence there wasn’t any point in heading all the way to TP when I would probably just end up spending 1-2 hours before heading home for dinner.

I really really like this weather, nice and comfortable. (:

Th impulsive shopper in me bought a top from LRH, and mobile broadband subscription from MobileOne. The M1BB plan that I took was not expensive at all, a mere $19+ every month for the 2mbps plan – the boyfriend felt so tempted that he almost got one himself too. The top from LRH looks really pretty, its a brightly coloured toga – I just hope it fits.

I should be doing work, but evidently I’m not. And after going to Body Worlds yesterday with the boyf, some thoughts have been plaguing me, and I’m still trying to make sense out of those thoughts. A little insight into these thoughts – I have no idea what I truly love to do, and I don’t know what subjects truly interest me. Go figure.

Perhaps I’ll share my thoughts when they make sense to me.

In this weather, only one thing makes sense to me – my bed. And, a book.

Picture obtained from One Love Photo

CPDRC dances to Jai-Ho!

Impressive! Plenty of people have already waxed lyrical about the wonderous feats of getting inmates to dance as a rehabilitation process so I’m not going to go into that further.

What I admire most from the standpoint of someone who once taught mass dance at secondary school level, was the level of commitment I saw from each dancer during the video. Every single one of them strongly danced their heart out, and put in the zest for dance and life into the routine, no matter if they did well or not. Really impressive, I never could have inspired that from my sec ones in the past – no matter the amount of love, time and scoldings they got. Well, except for the loyal bunch of sec ones who sabo-ed me to become the asst treasurer in Sec 3, but that wasn’t quite the point here. Hurhur.

I’m sure Roo will be able to see what I see – the amazing energy that the inmates had, and our sec ones prolly never had that.

Psst – they shot to fame through their viral video of Thriller.

Over 35 million hits! Wow!

To comprehend friendships…

After so many days, I still don’t get it. The more I think about it, other thoughts start popping up. More friends started popping up.

I miss my best friend/s.

On a windy Tuesday afternoon..

Was supposed to lunch with self at JP during this time, but with the growing gloomy clouds in school, decided to just settle for lunch at canteen (since I already have a table since meeting) and sit in this corner, while waiting for presentation at 1330 hours.

Recently certain things came to light, and I got pretty upset by it. Felt really hurt, betrayed to a certain extent – and all these done by a friend whom I thought would have a better mind than this. Then again, we get nasty surprises all the time, don’t we. So, live and let live – I suppose.

Though I don’t particularly feel like talking to that friend for now. Argh.

Feeling eagerly excited about our Cuba presentation later, we’ve got almost everything ready – cuban flags, bueno vista social club music, three cubans film, activities and even espanol math tests! Hurhur. I really should be reading my notes so that I have some basis for writing the 2.5k word essay, but I don’t feel like reading them!!

Rahrahrahs. The boyf has also yet to reply to my morning text – bahs.

Monday..

is a nice snuggly lazy day.

Loved the heavy rain today, because I’m secure in my home, and napped the afternoon away. Okay, I wasn’t that bad of a pig, I napped the later half of the afternoon away.

A new day did bring new developments to the day, and today was indeed a much better day, a much clearer day for me, for us. If nothing goes wrong, and things remain as how it is now, we shld be settled tomorrow!

Cryptic – yes. I don’t want to jinx it. Told Peanut about it so far, I’ll announce it when I firm it up tomorrow.

In the meantime, the nice snuggly weather makes me want to crawl back into bed, but I really need to start doing research for the meritocracy essay. I should be doing readings, and research. But I’m just feeling oh so sleepy. Yawns.

Awesomely adorable, don't you think?