some children!!
Let me paint a picture: As i sit here in the glowing light of a nearby lamp freezing my butt off 3 days before my second last exam, beside me chirps an animated voice. Of a 5 yr old boy-my cousin to be exact-trying to learn maths. He's gotten 5 out of 6 right so far, on an interactive maths questionnaire online. He's buggered coz he got one wrong. He's a total extremist. When he gets one wrong he explodes. When he gets one right he explodes on the oppposite end of the spectrum. It's a nightmare. Ever tried teaching a kindie maths? ..............................
muses on a whim
Woot! I'm finally studying:D:D:D Nothing inspired me to such an act; i guess my body's finally waking up to the idea of a potential FAIL which it doesn't want to see, so is trying to proact in defense [hehe, is there such a word? oh well]. The church conference was great cause' i got to see my crush and we finally had a proper talk. Not talk as in wow-great-weather-ey kind of fluff but a real talk over supper in a hall with about 50 other ppl, about anything that popped up. He's a true sweetheart ..funny, sweet, straightforward, honest, attentive,..etcetera.``I'm in love ``:D`` I'm willing to give this thing 5 years as 23 is the age our brains are fully developed-apparently. If we're not together by then, it's a cue to move on:P
Ick i'm losing the motivation to study again. It's a constant problem when you're surrounded by yummy food, shops and miscellaneous junk. I just want to go out and take advantage of all the end of financial year sales before they burn out. And i had a nice chat with grandma this morning which left me with nothing but the desire to daydream again. She's planning to take me to the 3 dream capitals of china next month besides my hometown: hongkong, shanghai and some other really cool place. I dunno how we're going to cover so many places in just 3 weeks, but i'd be just as happy to sweep the floor or knit or cook or treasure hunt through the place i called home-and still do-for the first 5.5 years of my life. It's more than enough for me to just spend time with 2 superparents who mean the world to me. I also need to learn how to knit and sew off them! such priceless skills :D along with cooking, but recipe books are a pinch to learn off. Sewing books are a nightmare.
ooooh the weather's really really pretty outside. I'm going for a walk as soon as the sun decides to hide for half an hour behind a cloud or something.. after all this study on equilibrium and thermodynamics, my body needs to rejuvenate!!! I think i've eaten too much. And not enough exercise *grumbles* if only my sweetheart was here; the sight of him and his smile is enough to turn me into a sweating, bumbling-but happy-little beetle. I now know the difference, between a best friend and a love. If john walked thru the door at a time when i was upset, it'll probably take him 3 hours to cheer me up. But if my love did, without effort it'd take about 3 milliseconds to achieve the same effect. An idea inspired off jimmy, to credit him:) alright enough brain drain.. off to dream some more -and study of course.
Honours?
I bumped into one of my old Primary school friends today-don't you just love those encounters?- and we started chatting away about uni & such & got onto the topic of the heading. It never even crossed my mind to consider honours as 4 years in uni is bad enough nevermind 5 or more *shudders*. The main difference btw choosing liberal rather than arts/science is because the latter takes 5 years to complete. Don't worry the logic's there:) I guess honours makes sense in terms of broadening career opps, but the chances of me getting a job that incorporates my potential 3 majors is pretty slim. It's such a weird combination :)
Today in our 3 hour chem prac we did close to nothing except chat. The closest we got to the task at hand was discussing the chemistry of relationships- which didn't help in increasing our understanding of redox reactions but the results we got for the prac were all wrong anyway so might as well clear our brains for something more useful:P It was nice to have, for the first time in 13 weeks, a meaningful girly chat around our table. I got to know aimee who's a half indo/german with a colourful, free background..tanya who's in her second year of nursing/science and loves work as much as i do-which isn't much:D.. jill who wants to transfer to my degree [heh] and a few others. It really intensified my experience of uni, that concept of meeting new ppl and sometimes taking that chance to scrape beneath the surface can reap priceless treasures. All in all this first semester has been really good-and i can say this more accurately now as it's the second last day:D As such I'm quite mystified at hearing about the number of people who've dropped out already -what a waste! is all i can say.
I'm looking forward to the church conference this w/e -in more ways than one- and hopefully squashing in some study before and after stuvac **
fond old memories
Yay!!! I have another job interview tomoro :* i think i go for the interviews rather than the job which is weird but that's idiosyncracies for you:D Also i forgot to mention something really amazing that happened at sonal's party: i met someone who use to go to Parramatta Primary-one of my beloved old schools-around the same time i was there whilst being in the same grade as me!! The world is truly small-in a good way:) We would have been in different classes but to think how ppl can start out together, then separate, then come together again, is rather sentimental. I still remember Jason Zhang from year 3, and watched elle and mands grow up from yr 5. My best friend in year 4 goes to usyd now & i can reflect back fondly still. In one way i wish i could have being a part of their life and not left, but what happened happened. Per'aps what we don't know about each other might end up forging an even greater friendship than before:D
While i'm on the topic of friendships and such, i have to let off steam about this guy that's driving me bonkers. Sadly, i must confess that i can't see a friendship developing btw us anytime soon. Frankly, it's an icicle in hell's chance. And it's sad because i love ppl and can tolerate a wide range of them but this guy proved me wrong. It's even sadder as i have to see him at ADG every tuesday, making tuesdays my least favourite day:( It's a delicate problem and i feel like i'm chasing the elusive solution round in circles. I don't even remember how it started but i know it got exacerbated the day i told him we were the same star sign [notes to self-NEVER reveal such potentially damaging info ever again]. After that i could not criticise him - not even cheeky banter. My biggest criticism of him was that he had a massive ego; i would've been more selective with my words [his ego ain't massive; it's the size of the Atlantic] but it was early days and i didn't expect him to be so serious. Alas he was [darn assumptions] and retorted that i was just commenting on myself as we're the same sign-_- ""It's hopeless. What i like about him fills a stamp. I've never been so stirred by any one person. I don't understand. Anyway I'm not gonna rail on anymore. I've let it out. Hopefully i'll feel differently next week. If not China should fix the problem:D ~woot china!!!
My ticket is set to leave these shores on July 2nd:D:D 1 day after my last exam. I couldn't be happier. Of course it would've been nice if i could make it back in time for the first week of semester but looks like i'll miss the first few days. Dunno why, May didn't explain it properly. I can't wait to sample all the changes i've been hearing about from everyone. China's unrecognisable now apparently so i'll be taking lots of pics.It's also gonna be hot, a concept i'll be struggling to come to grips with after tasting these past few ice age of a days. I'm also stumped as to how i'd use the net over there seeing i can't read chinese. This blog would be a perfect blank for my travel logs so that i won't forget any precious days and also to keep ppl informed that i'm still alive:) So must get over that barrier. Um.. that's it by way of updating.. *trying hard to forestall study*:P ok, enough time wasted; now to LOTR:D
