I'm moving urls, privacy issue ): Clearly I should have done this a long time ago, but I'm just so attached to this username...  quite tired of censoring all my entries though.

Anyway, no moar posts here in the future. PM me for the url love!

I am in LOVE with the Kingdom Hearts Piano Collection! I have "dearly beloved" and "traverse town" on repeat, and it's just wonderful. I love all of it - the new bridges and key changes make for some epic pieces. But prolly the best part is the memories of playing it (or watching Louis play in the Sephi days) It was just a very bittersweet collection of songs that made me love KH all over again.

Sadly, I've had to put away Jim-Bob in light of exams, but he remains in my heart. 358/2 days is nice, but would have been a lot nicer if I didn't have to translate it. Plus controls are shitty - I have never hated a D-pad with so much passion in my entire life.

Gosh, KH. I need to add that to the list of games to replay once I get back to sg. Just lock myself in for a couple of days and try to take down the one winged angel (I have confidence that I will not ride the failboat this time! ohoho~)

KH3 for the ps3! Just another reason to get one, methinks :D Japaaaaaaaaaaaannnn

Because I am drained and feeling somewhat tired, a brief summary:

- I kind of fancy this 3rd year BMS guy! He's also majoring in neuroscience and I managed to have an hour-long chat with him in the caf before NC :D He's really nice and funny. <33

- I met a half-Irish guy from omegle! Turns out he's zomg from Burnside (small world eh?) and he was notably shocked when I told him that I read xkcd ("But... you have ovaries!"). Yes, my ovaries like reading xkcd, too. Sadly he doesn't have the Irish accent since he was born here. Ah well. He's always full of physics/computing/piracy anecdotes so it's awesome talking to him! Also I betaed his resume for Internode. :p

- Entertaining guests is tiring. Much more so than when Alex+ were here since we had to relinquish the bathroom this time - it's horrible taking a shower and having a cold gust of wind blow through! Thankfully, we're back in the nice enclosed bathroom again. It was fun having more people in the house though.

- This is not me-related, but anyway: Char got into the exchage program!!! Congrats, bb (:

Edit: Hot diggity! (lol) The Sims 3 is outttt

Soo... I watched Ovation's Sense and Sensibility the other night (where I ODed on energy drinks and stayed awake until 5am) and I must say, Alan Rickman is made of win. No, seriously. I never really liked SnS until I saw the tv adaptation (ahh, the irony!). Either way, it was great. Much better than the creepy old man vibe I got from the book. And gosh, celebs kept popping up everywhere. Hugh Laurie, Kate Winslet, Emma Thompson...

I had labs with Julius yesterday an we had a random high-five session going for our DNA lab marker results, yay! I'm quite sad since it was the last lab session of the term (ie. study break oh noes)  I totally tanked my phys assignment question on hexamethonium - though I suppose since everyone else tanked a lot worse I should feel mildly better. But NO. This GPA isn't going to slip away from me. There's too many hours invested in it now.


 

A table update. It's only gotten worse. I've somehow gotten 5 modules' worth of crap on it (the textbook mountain can't be viewed from this angle) but yeah. There's Jim-Bob over yonder, and the ever-nefarious smart energy drink.

I have been zomg busy but! I have teh site recommendation. OMEGLE. It is good fun talking to complete strangers, I swearz. So far no pedobear attacks for me, and convos stay short and sweet (and occasionally... philosophical?)

So...

I've been experimenting for the past 2 days where I see how much weight I can drop. I lost 1.5kg! All it took was bananas, meatballs, and curry gravy.

There are drawbacks, naturally - my heart is beating really fast. It's pounding so hard I'm afraid it's going to jump right out of my sternum. Also my left arm went numb multiple times last night (oh noes) and I had to manually rotate it to keep the circulation going. I can barely concentrate on things, standing up makes me dizzy, my hands won't stop shaking, and my head feels like someone bludgeoned me with an aluminium bat. There's a disconnect between my head and my neck somehow. The circuits aren't wired properly.

It's the strangest feeling. The person typing this isn't me, not really.

Ready?

...

I PASSED!!!

The GAMSAT, that is. Yey! I'm quite surprised since I didn't study. Ironically, I scored the highest marks in the essay section - which I know for a FACT is absolute rubbish. At first I was going to give a very care bear, politically-correct answer to a very boring question (is intelligence necessary in life?) along the lines of, "Oh noes, every one is equal, we should be egalitarian etc" then I was like, "Screw it, I ain't going to pass this time round so I'm going to write what I really think." Basically I went all out elitist, and made some very questionable declarations:"We should remove warning labels off everything and let the problem solve itself", "Thinning the herd is necessary for intelligent selection", "Intelligence should be placed above character - we can only advance as long as we are able to move beyond ethics and morals; stupidity is tainting our genepool and is grossly celebrated in the mass media", "intellectual inadequacy should not be socially acceptable - I believe punishment and ostracism should be meted out accordingly to motivate the uninspired". Yeah, I know :|

I suppose everyone else gave PC answers or something - it was possibly the one time I pulled out all of my inner prejudices and magnified them tenfold into one diastrous, egotistic essay where I pandered on and on expressing views that would have me bricked in public. It's no fun sitting on the fence; pick a side and practice political extremism today!

Ah well. My mum's over the moon but I'm more or less ambivalent at present. Horror of horrors, how am I supposed to go overseas now? D:

-runs off to play pokeplat-

*edit* Thanks to everyone who emailed/msged me about it!

I absolutely LOVE my neural ciruits lecturer, Prof, Simon Brookes! He is just made of awesome, I swear. I had a double shot of his lectures today - one for NC and once more for human physio. After reading the notes I thought it was going to be a total snore fest, but! He turned up and it was probably the only human physio lect I didn't fall asleep in :D It's just that he's funny and knowledgeable and keeps trying to steer the lect to ENS (not very discreetly, either)

Everyone else in the theater was pretty buzzed afterwards, too. We got some really boring dude for endocrine and respiration so I think Simon was a lovely change. Even his weird jumper/vest thing became IRRELEVANT after he got into the zone. XD

He might actually turn out to be my first teacher crush! Lol. He's married with two kids though, but STILL. Awesome is his middle name. And I'm sure his kids have his awesomeness in them also. Heh.

Oh and rant!! I can't stand this clique of random Singaporeans/Malaysians that has just sprung up in human phys. I know quite hypocritical since I used to be in one (somewhat) but seriously. Singlish sounds so terrible and uncultured (esp in this country! Queen's English, biatches) and I simply don't understand what they're going to get out of this experience if they refuse to interact with the locals. Isn't that the whole point of going overseas? Man, I dunno. I think I might be too sensitive over this. Out of the entire sg/hk/msia group only me and YW seem to have migrated. Oh well.

I have a scary lecturer. D:

He's like a zillion years old, but he sure doesn't act like the typical geriatric. Only 14 people turned up for the 4pm lecture today (14 out of... 100 plus students?), which was absolutely terrifying because I feared for my soul when he started skulking around at the front of the hall. Apparently passive listening isn't a good thing to him - he started antagonising random people in the audience - people, I have to add, who took the trouble to turn up despite shitty weather conditions. He picked on poor Sammy (a dead ringer for Adrian Grenier from Entourage!) and practically tore him to shreds for not knowing the answer to one of his random questions. Like anyone would be able to answer under so much pressure, honestly. I could feel him shrinking from his perfectly respectable height of 6"2 next to me.

Tis a topic to be feared indeed. I talked to someone new in the neural lecture today (misery binds people - I love the solidarity!) and apparently I need my head checked; she's only got 1 exam this sem and I've got 5 (3 of them lined up consecutively urg).

I'm kind of glad now that I did enrollment on my own, since I don't share a lot of my labs/tutes with people I usually hung out with last year. It's been a while since I talked to the sg/malaysia/hk cllique but I don't really mind - what's the point of studying overseas if you're just going to mix around with people from your own country? And taking adv anced chem was an awesome idea because I really left my comfort zone on that one - I think I was the only med sci person in it lol. Twas initially lonely but eventually the weeks of labs labs and more labs took its toll and people were forced to rally together to complain (or at least, make disgruntled noises together) as the notes piled up.

Oh, to make my "zomg random" statement of the day: I have a bathrobe. And it is marvellous. It's fuzzy and comfy and I'd spend my whole life wearing it if I could. Mere words cannot do its sheer awesomeness justice! XD

I managed to get City of Glass on paperback on my last book spree (which was a while ago - I keep forgetting to blog about it. Probably because of Sodom.)

At the risk of sounding like zomg vacuous girl who has nothing to write about but clothes and boys I bought the most lovely grey camisole and a checkered red top today! I was contemplating buying them last week but passed, but the fabulous dream I had about them last night made me reconsider.

Apparently I have been sounding very carefree in my blog/msn/phone conversations or whatever (according to Trystan, who is coming to stay at my house during hols whoo) so let me set one thing straight - I have never been so fucking stressed in my entire life. You know those shows on tv, where students on campus do nothing but drink and party (and graduate with first class honours all the same)? Reality, reality. I actually found a white hair the other day. A FUCKING WHITE HAIR. I'm not even 21.

I can't even think about going back to sg to celebrate or whatever because that's too soon, there's not enough time for me to finish everything here and a little part of me just wants to say "sod it, I'm staying here for winter". I suspect that even if I did go back most of it would be pulling overnighters at char's house (I miss your dog, bb) or in front of my tv. Amazingly, I only strongly miss two people in sg (also, C.C., but I talk to him often enough on msn anyway) and I think if I were going back for the company it'd just be for theirs. God. I miss people I didn't get to see much (or at all) last time round, baka and shermon and abiel and cheryl. It's like remembering people from a previous lifetime.

5 modules was a bad idea, I think. I'm hopelessly buried in backlog, there's a quiz next monday and a hugeass assignment due next tues, with a 30 page lab report to finish due thursday and a separation capacity callibration curve plus calculations (of which I know absolutely nothing about) expiring on Friday 5pm. I'm awaitng replies from 3 professors on my assignments, and that stupid, stupid GAMSAT test.