catch up
Well today was meant to be a set aside 'study day' but i opted for something more befitting for a person who's enjoying her first free Saturday from work for about 3 months:D I went shopping!! The real motive for it was Sonal's birthday-othawise i just wouldn't have bothered. But it turned out to be quite fruitful and Valley Girl-omgsh!!-their 50%-off-everything-sale roped me in quick (along with about 1000 other sales crazy women) and i got a totally gorgeous black hooded cardie + a green v-necked jumper as a pressie. I spent like 2 hrs in that place:O Don't you just love buying things knowing you're not ripped off? I felt rushed and spent, but content at the end of it all-and i
still haven't ticked off everything on my shopping list.
The party itself which i left over an hour ago was jam PACKED with curries-to the point where i was the only asian there. I'm starting to get so use to that left-out feeling it's become natural>_> anyhoo it was mighty interesting, and i got to meet heaps of unsw ppl heehee. I must go to one of their parties *interesting thematic ones* and put that id card to good use.
I've been so use to work that I've almost forgotten the time-out sensation. And for the first time, I concur that one cannot possibly traverse the whole of Parra westfield in a day unless they have a shopping list, a map, sustenance and no companions! Having lived almost right next to it for 8 yrs, i always thought westfield wasn't much by way of size but now-far out! Next Sat i have a massage planned and i am totally looking forward to that:D But i can't forget today easy. I had a great catchup session with jan-in her fab new Skyline, met cool new guys, nearly froze to death in a skirt that goes with everything and undid about a month's worth of health binge. These moments sound trivial but they go into shaping me as a whole. They are significant because I experience an event and it's mine to keep forever, to witness, to be accountable for, imprint into my memory or simply relieve onto somebody else. An event, no matter how small, becomes an article of my being and is mine to do with how i choose. ..*yawn* must snooze; work tomoro; toodles.. .
In a nutshell
yadi yada yada.. i've just finished writing an extra long email to someone and want to continue it through to here coz i can't be bothered to rethink the entire update i sent them. Yes i could've copied and pasted but where's the integrity in that:D Anyhoo, things are going reasonably well, i mean there's the odd kink here and there but nothing explosive. I'm aware that the atmosphere is starting to charge up in light of approaching exams; I'm also aware that a few people don't even have exams and get a criminal 7 weeks off!!! This said, I'm extraordinarily pleased that I've booked -in fine time- the much needed massage I've been saying I'd get for the past 3 years. It's a 1 hr remedial massage *rubs hands in anticipated glee* and comes the week before STUVAC -perfect timing or what?.
During exams going on msn will be ostracized from my to-do list, so i can study like the good girl i know is hiding in me somewhere:P I think it's safe to say that this first semester of uni experience should be given the thumbs up with a smiley face attached. I don't feel like i've changed a jot, but it offers the opportunity to discover how i respond to a myriad of experiences which is a guarantee (experiences that is, though you'd have to seek the majority yourself). Indeed, a couple a' days ago, i got asked out by a guy to theatre which is a rare thing, so rare in fact that i declined. More out of bludgeoned logic than anything else; i mean what would you say to an offer that started at 8pm, where neither party drives, the day before it happens? if it's yes, i don't want to hear anymore:P It really put me on the spot, as i also knew that it was meant to be a date >.< i hate giving people wrong signals.. *sigh* anyway, at least now i know that romance is a long way down on my list of priorities ..
There's been quite a few parties lately.. manda's bday.. and now sonal's one coming up. I want to go to all of them. You know how some people get bitten by the travel bug? yeh well i think i've got the try-everything-at-least-once bug. Very dangerous:D And once June (=half yearly sales heehee) hits I'm going on a mini shopping spree..must get pressies for relos in China. What do you buy when everything's made in the country you're visiting?? And a didgeridoo won't fit in the bag i'm thinking of carrying.. oh well such is life. So this is my update at best of the past fortnight give a few days. I'm so glaD i didn't do any more humanity subjects this semester.. I seem to have really gone off writing anything longer than 3 paragraphs. My brain just stops working after that. heh, can't wait to see what i got for my anth essay. I'll wrap up here. Toodles s2
redefining 'leaving stuff to the last minute'
Well more like the last hours. That's right! I finished my '1500' word essay due today by 5 at 3 :D And submitted it by 4.20 pm. I could cry with joy. I can at least start breathing again. It was so weird, expecting to pull off an all-nighter for this assignment but opted for sleeping and skipping all lectures today instead. It's a first, and most definitely, a last. If i get a pass I'll be happy. Dunno why but i seem to be struggling in the arts and aceing the sciences. It's terrible!! I can't rely on presumptions anymore :O
Anyhoo today was a very interesting day. I'm not normally this good at procrastinating.. tomorow i hope will be better. Speaking of which i still need to think of some chinese food to bring to the International Food day thing. Somehow fried rice just doesn't seem substantial..spring rolls..>.< ack.. so hard!! Oh well chinese food isn't too difficult to source.
I'm watching ROTK. Boy i love that film. It's official: the LOTR trilogy is my fave film of all time. I can't get enough of it :) it's so easy to submerge into that world..*sigh*
Goodness, I just received a call from the manager of my new job: regarding rosters, looks like i'll be slotted on
both wednesday and thursday evenings!! which means i'll be working 5 days in a row on some weeks!! -.- goodbye life! I am so thankful exams are coming up-means i'll get a break and china!! I must have mentioned that in nearly every blog now ;p oh well, at least i'm blessed with sound time management:] thankyou God! And I can't complain about lack of things to do anytime soon. I wonder if my hair will turn white after five weeks:D went to manda's birthday party on Sat. Yes i must mention
that :P It was a nice mini reunion, and i met some of her really cool friends.. the food was good, the rest was a blur of music, dance and bonding. All in all, it was great spending time with Mands on such an important night.. now, i must get back to contemplating biology and revisiting mendelian genetics.. night!
On a roll :D
Things are REALLY starting to snowball this week. What drove that fact home was my uncommon act of staying @ Fischer library after all lectures were wrapped for the day, doing chem for 2 hours . First time ever. 2 straight solid hours of chem minus about 12 minutes. It's quite terrifying. As i staggered out trying to unlock my knees by the end, i bumped into a few phs-ers, which reminds me- i saw jimmy and chrissy this morning :) just thought i'd mention it. Scrap the 10 yr reunion. At the rate i'm seeing everybody, there shouldn't be one til 50 yrs down the track.
Besides chem, all my assignments are due over the next 3 weeks. Then about 3 weeks of breathing. Then exams. Then China~woot!! I can't believe it!!! I got this job i applied for, at a new juice bar in the city!! It wasn't even a serious application. Indeed, during the interviewing process, i was wondering whether it was one of those scam jobs set up by bored (rich) ppl in plush hotels. I really got it!! But i'm caught in a mini dilemma, as now whatever time-management skills lie dormant within my system will really need to spring into action. Sigh* well at least i won't have time to get bored:D I can't wait to start the training next week- new skills & ppl!! Not only that, i won something from National youth Week.
It was one of those literary baits from the website where you have to answer so and so question within a set number words. I won a stationary set apparently^^ how unreal.. & practical:) I don't deserve them but it's lovely of God to be so generous with his surprises. Somehow, the bad surprises always end up balanced by the good. Like yesterday. I had a pretty lacklustre morning, but by arvo, i entered the weekly ADG session and realized it was hosting the annual Great Aussie Bite!! It was splendidly cozy.. a big round table decked with every aussie food imaginable i.e. lamingtons, tim tams, pavlovas, fairy bread, minties, vegemite/wiches, sausage rolls, etc. Everyone was talking, laughing and bonding amidst an abundance of food, generating personal circles of buddies and having a generally cool time. Next week will be International Food week so it'll be the reverse of the aussie bite, hehe. Can't wait:D
Surprises are the best things ever-after love and so forth:P-and a healthy dose of bad ones are mandatory to truly appreciate the good ones. Let's hope i can say the same for exam results-.-