had a cozy little gathering with barrel and joy :) after an encounter with crappy shoes...deeelicious N.Y.D.C dinner was on the menu! pasta + rice + mudpie *faints* food never tasted so good...heh. and we had another scoop of ice-cream for supper because we could not stand people enjoying themselves right in front of us :p

heard accounts of their bleating lovesick friends ~shudder~ it all sounded kinda scary.

somehow have lost touch with the 'magical' feeling of spring-time love. those kind that will set birds singing and flowers blooming, out of nowhere. where merely seeing that person will set the heart fluttering. now the four-letter word has taken on a rather different meaning...hmm. more of compromise and tolerance than anything else i guess. sigh...i wonder if this is a change for the better? that i am looking past the frills and thrills...to find a reality that is, more often than not, much less pretty than i had imagined.

i believe there are so many kinds of love that are as worthy and precious as that between a man and a woman. Loving religion, family, friends, animals, nature etc. all seem plausible to fill the nagging void within us. but i guess am saying all this so logically because i am not involved in any relationship now. i really hope i will be able to keep as level-headed as i am now if ever that someone comes along.

Que sara sara :)

have been busy these few days settling my timetable. new system and all...ahh. so confusing. but thankfully i managed to get my major modules as planned. phew.

EL2131: PATTERNS IN ENGLISH:SOUNDS AND WORDS
EL2132: PATTERNS IN ENGLISH:GRAMMAR AND MEANING
JS2221: ORGANISATION OF JAPANESE BUSINESS
JS3213: CULTURE, GENDER AND ETHNICITY IN JAPAN

now for my breadth...the headache of this sem. it just isn't fair to Arts people...there are so little that we can choose from and even less that we are confident of doing well in. arrgh.

maintaining my CAP (partly for SEP) has made me much more cautious in choosing my cross-fac modules this time round. The gem that i took last sem was definitely a wrong choice but it was interesting. so what can i say. and i realized that a C grade can be quite devastating.

neverthless, i m looking forward to school! :) keeping busy with tutorials and projects will make me a more agreeable person. heh. too much idling this term break has been very unhealthy in all aspects. sigh...all those wasted time. oh well. at least now i have a clearer sense of purpose and something to work for :) grin.

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haha. crappy :p and the piccies are not really nice. but i love oranges..heh :)

the weather yest was good but abit stuffy after the short rain. and the PVC costume wasn't helping much. but still, Preview was great :) though i felt that the audience at the NE show were more responsive...heh. but of course...the NE show was full of highly-excitable P5 kids. haha. my mum and her friend were there...glad they enjoyed themselves :)

i am really happy to be part of all this! now i know how much work goes behind all the parade *immense* all the people, the mountains of KFC...

but most of all, i got to know many people whom i think i would have never got a chance to meet. My social circle largely revolves around people from the mainstreams...fellow racers in the academic rat race. it somehow seems natural to me that most people go to EM2 or preferably EM1, then a SAP school or at least express stream, then off they go the junior college, then Uni. a very very well trodden, no-risk path. well, not that we had much choice. at least for me. felt like i was being whisked from one academic playfield to another. breathless.

i had actually wanted to go poly to study media. but i never did. and why? aiyoh...why you want to go poly when you can go jc? go jc then can go uni...you need a degree in this society. blah blah blah. case closed.

i never really had a chance to meet the rest who chose or were channelled to take other paths the rest of us may never even consider venturing. but through the NDP stuff, i meet people of the same age or younger who already stopped schooling and looking for a job. people who do not attach half the level of importance i attached to my studies, even at my slackest state. felt rather embarassed when i asked them which junior college/uni they are from. man...i felt really narrow and shallow.

i must say, they are really great people. and very smart. quick thinking and extremely humourous. i sometimes feel slow and blockheady around them. haha. maybe the more you study, the 'dumber' you get.

truely 'hang(2) hang(2) chu(1) zhuang(4) yuan2)" :)