Computer crashes are like technological menstruation- my computer has them once every two months or so, which is now. It's PMS comes in the form of lagginess, which effectively drives me nuts!



I wish I could walk you into the future
A route mapped by my own wanderlust
I wish I could walk you into the future
Past the abysmal sea of echos
A starry-eyed shuttle through space




26 Aug @ 07 10


I'm not happy about having to wake up this early today.

So when mum told me bread made a better breakfast than bananas, I decided to annoy her with a "why?", and then around four more to the subsequent replies she gave.

She always does this- saying things as if they were facts without knowing the reasons behind them herself.

And, for the record, bananas are the better brekkie.

This week's been a fulfilling one; other stuff aside, I made Regina's present and lunched at Design school with a few ELFs today. I missed their Fish & Chips so much! Am gonna see some of the old CSC gang at aqua theraphy event tomorrow :). Man, I wish I were back in TP.




This week was the first time I met my local lecturers, and I have to say that some of them are really good! I never thought it was possible for Accounting to be made interesting, but my lecturer came pretty close!

I'm kinda inspired. It takes a commendable amount of spirit and verve to go on about anything when no one looks like they give a damn. I know that for sure because quite often, my tutees' restlessness rubs off on me and I get real tempted to cut them some slack and feed them answers, which is equivalent to tutorial sin.


I don't go out of my way to inject life into my lessons; if the kids are bubbly, I'll probably be too. But if they are tepid little creatures, I leave them to remain that way. I'm not a lifeguard, I can't breathe life into people, and I'm not a life coach, so I don't waste my effort trying.

Unlike me, however, my lecturers seem to fizz with energy despite facing a inanimate audience. Doing ALPs has taught me that there's nothing worse than a dead crowd, so kudos to them on that!




I added a few resolutions to the list last night, nevermind that it's three quarters into 2009 now.


Check two requirements off NYAA
Tough. I don't even have a CCA right now. I'll get into one soon enough though.

Revise notes at least once every month
This time round, it's for real; shape up or ship out, do or die!

Raise bank balance by $y by year end, $z if I am to take up dance
Quite impossible but hey, aim for the sky, fall on the coconut tree, right?

Be more punctual: < 15 minutes late for any meet-up
You are not to laugh. I'm taking baby steps on this one.

It seems like people have had their courtesy and consideration zapped out of them lately, and I'm having none of it. Well, actually I have been having a lot of it and it's getting really old.

I shouldn't have to do anything that I don't feel like doing, especially if it is to pick up someone's responsibility, no matter how small. Those are the bonuses that come with the friendship package, so it really bugs me when someone just assumes that it's a given - that it's my duty to be a yesman - even when I am willing to help out.

Whatever happened to social graces?

Today was my first day of school. I didn't make any new friends, and I have to find groupmates for my Marketing project by Wednesday. So thank god I went for orientation! I still don't know who to group with, but at least I know a handful of people.


The day went better than I had expected. I don't know what I was expecting, since nothing exceptionally good happened today.

One thing did stink though: Travelling. It takes an eternity to get to school, and I can't even read (oh, did you know that Sony has a Kindle counterpart? I saw someone using it yesterday!)/cram for a test on the bus because of my motion sickness. In fact, I'm still feel nauseous from my ride home. Wasn't doing any reading though; was just facing the opposite direction.




Berries rejoice! I bought tie dans for you guys!

I didn't personally buy them, obviously. One of my OG mates kindly offered to buy stuff for us from Taiwan and I immediately got reminded of Tonberry's tie dan craze. I only got five packs though; I didn't want to impose on him too much, especially since we were freshly acquainted.




I haven't been keeping up with my new year resolution about not picking fights with Pear so well these few weeks, and John, my fictitious friend, has enlightened me why.

It's because I - as with everyone else - hate admitting that I could be wrong. And with every step he took to resolve matters, I got more incensed because it meant that I, the guilty one, just sunk a level deeper into fault for having the innocent party make things right.

So now that I've spelt it out, I guess you won't be needing John anymore, will you Pear?

It's hard having to work with material that you're unfamiliar with- merely trying to adapt is draining.

Still, that can't beat working with familiar material that sporadically catches you off guard. You get a rude awakening and end up tired and disappointed.