it is that time of the year again. that time when you are on top of the world coz your exams are finally over and yet at the same time you are shitting bricks because you have 3 days to pack your entire room so you could move out of the student village. yes you know what i am talking about.
what a week it has been for me... there are a few things that i truly truly despise. vacuming, laundry and packing are in my top 5. and i had to do all of them. i had tina and rick to help on my last day and we managed to move all my stuff out. it was weird but i actually felt kinda sad when i drove out of student village on sunday. like i miss it already.
staying at tina's for the next 3 weeks. her housemates are nice enough but i dont really see them that often. jason's [one of the housemates] girlfriend kim is going to live in the house too later this week. she seemes quite unhappy that it will be a 6 people house instead of just 5. i detected some sort of annoyance from her but i dont really give a shit about her feelings. tina asked each of her housemates about me staying there and they didnt mind. why should she?... also, went to see jo's new place the other day. it was such a lovely, CLEAN place. very homey. something i didnt have for the past year living with savages. i am absolutely envious ;p
funny how the year has gone by. so many things happened and so many new experiences. since primary school all i wanted is to go to uni, living independantly and freely. it is amazing how life doesnt always turn the way you plan it. i thought ill be one of those people who would party 24/7, have tonnes and tonnes of friends..just like the movies. i did get to uni but the kind of life i thought i wanted actually repulses me now. i have lived with drunks and irresponsible idiots and i totally loathe them. i sometimes wonder which part of it i actually found attractive...
Monday, November 27, 2006
Saturday, November 18, 2006
new and somewhat improved
guess whats different?
i was bored okay??..and i needed to do something other than my assignment that is due during the exam week. it is called procrastinating.
ooo ooooo!!! i can put up my favourite quotationa on my blog! YAY!!! just take a look at the bottom of the page. ill be changing it from time to time (it usually depends on my mood)
changing my blog's layout was an interesting 3 hour process. i wanted to change it for a long time now, especially since shelby told me that my old layout was the same as her ex-boyfriend's. i think she said the first time she read my blog. so it was long long time ago. finally!
thought it would be fun but bloody hell, it was hard work!! i wonder how you arty farty people do it. so many decisions to make. template, colours, fonts, colour of fonts,..the list goes on. it would have been easier if there wasnt any list to choose from. if it had to be something that i had to come up with i would have finished this thing in about 45 minutes.
i didnt like any of the templates and i had about 25 to choose from. this particular layout, called 'the habour' was the last layout i looked at. it was so 'soft' and 'gentle' (very girly)..isnt really me(ironic since i am a girl).but i thought why not do just try it?..do something unpredictable.
so i went with it. kinda like it now. the only downfall is that i couldnt change my old posts' font colours. so it might be a little hard to see the words.
i havent blogged for awhile now. i have a lot to say and i want to share it. a lot is happening and has happened. but i feel so numb. i have no drive or incentive to do anything. i am just floating now..so i ask you to be patient with me and wait till my writing fever returns.
and one more thing..do let me know what you think about my new page. i have no colour coordination and cant really see if it is 'too much'or vice versa..oh please restrict yourself to negative/nasty comments. anyone and everyone can give you nice comments but one can only count on their friends for honest ones.
happy bloggin'!!
i was bored okay??..and i needed to do something other than my assignment that is due during the exam week. it is called procrastinating.
ooo ooooo!!! i can put up my favourite quotationa on my blog! YAY!!! just take a look at the bottom of the page. ill be changing it from time to time (it usually depends on my mood)
changing my blog's layout was an interesting 3 hour process. i wanted to change it for a long time now, especially since shelby told me that my old layout was the same as her ex-boyfriend's. i think she said the first time she read my blog. so it was long long time ago. finally!
thought it would be fun but bloody hell, it was hard work!! i wonder how you arty farty people do it. so many decisions to make. template, colours, fonts, colour of fonts,..the list goes on. it would have been easier if there wasnt any list to choose from. if it had to be something that i had to come up with i would have finished this thing in about 45 minutes.
i didnt like any of the templates and i had about 25 to choose from. this particular layout, called 'the habour' was the last layout i looked at. it was so 'soft' and 'gentle' (very girly)..isnt really me(ironic since i am a girl).but i thought why not do just try it?..do something unpredictable.
so i went with it. kinda like it now. the only downfall is that i couldnt change my old posts' font colours. so it might be a little hard to see the words.
i havent blogged for awhile now. i have a lot to say and i want to share it. a lot is happening and has happened. but i feel so numb. i have no drive or incentive to do anything. i am just floating now..so i ask you to be patient with me and wait till my writing fever returns.
and one more thing..do let me know what you think about my new page. i have no colour coordination and cant really see if it is 'too much'or vice versa..oh please restrict yourself to negative/nasty comments. anyone and everyone can give you nice comments but one can only count on their friends for honest ones.
happy bloggin'!!
Saturday, November 11, 2006
eureka!
i found out the title of the movie. its called "someone like you".
a bit of warning though..its overall a nice, feel good movie (jo, you'll like it) but the girl can get on your nerves. gosh you just wanna slap her [maybe its just me]..pissh pissh AHHH!!!
by the way, hugh jackman is funny and hot in that show..yummy
a bit of warning though..its overall a nice, feel good movie (jo, you'll like it) but the girl can get on your nerves. gosh you just wanna slap her [maybe its just me]..pissh pissh AHHH!!!
by the way, hugh jackman is funny and hot in that show..yummy
after the exams we can have a girly night complete with chips, chocolate and coca-cola to celebrate.WOOHOO!! (im feeling the effects already)
Friday, November 10, 2006
only a man in love will call you beautiful when you are crying all over him
this occured to me during my hourly breaks from my 30 minutes of reading my textbook.
i had this long dicussion with an old pal of mine from school and boy, was he cynical about relationships and love. he said all relantionships are liabilities. (he said other things as well but i cant really remember what). anyway....he was pretty set about it. to a degree i see his point. sometimes pursuing or maintaining a relantionship can be a bother and tiresome. i have seen it happening to people close to me.
on the other hand i have seen great relantionships. my parents' for one. they have been married for almost 30 years and i can see many more to come. i can see some of my friends going the same way. its truly amazing. and deep down, thats what everybody wants in the end.
i dont know..maybe young people nowadays have too high a criteria when looking for a partner. good looks, hot body, well-to-do, popular etc. and this goes for both guys and girls. its not that they dont deserve it, its just that to have a greek god, you will have to look like a greek goddess yourself (and vice versa). and if you dont...guess it would suck big time.
on a different but somewhat related matter, i remembered a scene from a movie that i watched some time back. the female lead is narrating the story. she has had so many failed relantionahips and was being very cynical and bitchy about everyone who claimed being in a secure one. it so happened at that time, she was watching her sister and brother in law arguing about the dumbest things.. so it further convinced her that all men were assholes and all men constantly crave for more than what they already have (and so on and on)
now, the sister is finally pregnant after trying to have a baby for a long time. the sister was just average looking (of course she cant be better looking than the lead..whatever) and her husband was bald at the top with hair sticking out at the sides. just average looking couple. but the female lead was still convinced of her beliefs. she even warned her sister to watch out for her husband.
then tragedy strikes and the sister loses the baby. the lead is there with the sister in the hospital and the sister tries to be brave about it, for her husband's sake. then she shares a story with the lead (younger sister). she said that one night, her husband woke up suddenly, dressed in a hurry and went out in the middle of the night. he came back 2 hours later with a little ' I LOVE NEW YORK' t-shirt for the baby so he would have something to give the baby when 'it' arrives.
in the hospital the sister reaches out for the t-shirt from her bag and starts weeping, not only for her loss but for her husband's as well. when the husband walks into the room, he looks over to his wife (her eyes red and blotchy , her nose running non-stop and her hair all over the place) and says to the lead, "isnt my wife just beautiful?"
when he said it, he was looking at his WIFE, the woman he married, and not at the mother of his child. just the woman. and he really meant it. he didnt try to trivialise the situation or the wife's agony. the husband puts his wife's feelings and pain above his own. and the best part, wife knew he was suffering too. this was his way of being brave about the situation, his way of being brave for his wife. he really shone that day, he was truly her knight in shining armour.
i cant remember the title of the movie, but it is one of my favourite scenes from any show ever..the female lead drops her former convictions and comes up a new one,[the title], and begins to see that some men are really diamonds in the rough, like her brother in law, while some men, though they sparkle and twinkle brightly in the beginning, will eventually lose their luster over time.
i had this long dicussion with an old pal of mine from school and boy, was he cynical about relationships and love. he said all relantionships are liabilities. (he said other things as well but i cant really remember what). anyway....he was pretty set about it. to a degree i see his point. sometimes pursuing or maintaining a relantionship can be a bother and tiresome. i have seen it happening to people close to me.
on the other hand i have seen great relantionships. my parents' for one. they have been married for almost 30 years and i can see many more to come. i can see some of my friends going the same way. its truly amazing. and deep down, thats what everybody wants in the end.
i dont know..maybe young people nowadays have too high a criteria when looking for a partner. good looks, hot body, well-to-do, popular etc. and this goes for both guys and girls. its not that they dont deserve it, its just that to have a greek god, you will have to look like a greek goddess yourself (and vice versa). and if you dont...guess it would suck big time.
on a different but somewhat related matter, i remembered a scene from a movie that i watched some time back. the female lead is narrating the story. she has had so many failed relantionahips and was being very cynical and bitchy about everyone who claimed being in a secure one. it so happened at that time, she was watching her sister and brother in law arguing about the dumbest things.. so it further convinced her that all men were assholes and all men constantly crave for more than what they already have (and so on and on)
now, the sister is finally pregnant after trying to have a baby for a long time. the sister was just average looking (of course she cant be better looking than the lead..whatever) and her husband was bald at the top with hair sticking out at the sides. just average looking couple. but the female lead was still convinced of her beliefs. she even warned her sister to watch out for her husband.
then tragedy strikes and the sister loses the baby. the lead is there with the sister in the hospital and the sister tries to be brave about it, for her husband's sake. then she shares a story with the lead (younger sister). she said that one night, her husband woke up suddenly, dressed in a hurry and went out in the middle of the night. he came back 2 hours later with a little ' I LOVE NEW YORK' t-shirt for the baby so he would have something to give the baby when 'it' arrives.
in the hospital the sister reaches out for the t-shirt from her bag and starts weeping, not only for her loss but for her husband's as well. when the husband walks into the room, he looks over to his wife (her eyes red and blotchy , her nose running non-stop and her hair all over the place) and says to the lead, "isnt my wife just beautiful?"
when he said it, he was looking at his WIFE, the woman he married, and not at the mother of his child. just the woman. and he really meant it. he didnt try to trivialise the situation or the wife's agony. the husband puts his wife's feelings and pain above his own. and the best part, wife knew he was suffering too. this was his way of being brave about the situation, his way of being brave for his wife. he really shone that day, he was truly her knight in shining armour.
i cant remember the title of the movie, but it is one of my favourite scenes from any show ever..the female lead drops her former convictions and comes up a new one,[the title], and begins to see that some men are really diamonds in the rough, like her brother in law, while some men, though they sparkle and twinkle brightly in the beginning, will eventually lose their luster over time.
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
useless (but maybe the desired) feedback
tina sent me this URL on a lecturer giving examples of feedbacks previous students have given him "for his teaching" over the years (just like the ones we do at the end of the semester for each lecturer). it is so so so FUNNY!!! highly recommend it. thanks tina.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmtgnEXjvvI
WARNING: may cause sudden loud outbursts of laughter resulting in weird looks from housemates and work colleagues.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmtgnEXjvvI
WARNING: may cause sudden loud outbursts of laughter resulting in weird looks from housemates and work colleagues.
Sunday, November 05, 2006
that nagging feeling
jerry has not been well these past few days. he doesnt seem to want to move much. he hardly swims and constantly sleeps. worst thing of all he is not eating. he hasnt for the past 6 days.he usually gobbles up the food i put for him but he doesnt even bother to look upwards.
i told my flatmate amy about jerry's odd behaviour and she said that her fish did the exact same thing before she died about a month ago. i didnt even know the fish died. not a good thing to say to a pet owner, i can tell you that much.
at the moment he is at the water surface with his mouth open and he is just floating there, not moving a muscle. that one the first signs that a fish usually presents before it dies. he is not even disturbed by the food pellet poking his head. i have not gotten enough sleep this past week because i keep waking up to check on him, to see whether he is floating on top of the water, belly-up.
i have had pets all my life. i have had fishes too. charlie was my first. but jerry is different. i got him early this year because i needed something to distract me from everything shitty that has been happening around me. and he did. he is pretty old and i know he might die soon. but now is not the time. i dont think i can handle anymore losses at the moment.
please dont die jerry
i told my flatmate amy about jerry's odd behaviour and she said that her fish did the exact same thing before she died about a month ago. i didnt even know the fish died. not a good thing to say to a pet owner, i can tell you that much.
at the moment he is at the water surface with his mouth open and he is just floating there, not moving a muscle. that one the first signs that a fish usually presents before it dies. he is not even disturbed by the food pellet poking his head. i have not gotten enough sleep this past week because i keep waking up to check on him, to see whether he is floating on top of the water, belly-up.
i have had pets all my life. i have had fishes too. charlie was my first. but jerry is different. i got him early this year because i needed something to distract me from everything shitty that has been happening around me. and he did. he is pretty old and i know he might die soon. but now is not the time. i dont think i can handle anymore losses at the moment.
please dont die jerry
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