Doing some serious couch rotting...

Ok...I hafnt bathed the whole day...I meant to do it after my afternoon run but the rain wouldnt let up...So it was like 4pm and i told myself i'd wait an hour for it to stop but it didnt...Then i told myself i'd wait another and it still din stop so whaddya know...I ended up doing some serious couch rotting that i had meant to do for a long time now...I deserve this...This lazying around with some nonsense playing on TV and the rain falling outside...This guiltless indulgence of nothingness that is such a bloody simple pleasure but which we, as busy Singaporeans, are disgustingly deprived of...My mum was about to ask me to clear my room...I din exactly hear it but i could sense it comin when she walked out of my room holding two clothes hangers in her hands...I only heard "Shaun, can you..." and i covered my ears singing "OH WHAT A BEEAAUUUTIFUUUULLL MOOOORRRNIIIINNNGG!!!" Then during lunch, my dad was like "Shaun, this afternoon let's fix Char's (my sis) display cupboard...It would be our project during the hols". I really REALLY resent that...REALLY!!! I mean it's as if i din have enuff projects to do during school term and he just had to add some to the hols to fill it up as well. And it's not like i wun help him fix it but do we really have to do this just 3 days after the end of my exams? Why is Singaporean culture like that? Why izit that people are terrified at the prospect of having nothing to do or of others doin nothing for that matter? I just dun get it...I worked hard for this break and i intend to do with it whatever i choose to even if it means not bathing for a whole day...

Decisions decisions...

I was horrified to hear that the pre-allocation exercise was on and that i only had a few days left to do it...SHIT!!! And i was hoping to take my mind off all school-related activities for the next few weeks!!! So anyway, am left wondering if psycho-ling is a good choice or not...cos after taking a lot of socio-ling modules like LIP, am beginning to really enjoy these kinds of mods though they're harder to do well in...And psycho-ling suddenly sounds very technical and boring to me...Think i'll prob. do 1. Cinematic discourse 2. Lang, society and identity 3. Lang, gender and text. Oh well...c how lar...

So these were some photos taken at Jul's b'day party last month...We were supposed to come dressed up in costumes and it was a really good thing that always-ready lin yen had some cos i hate themed birthday parties and costumes for that matter...so mah-fan and most certainly NOT fun when its 30 degrees out...And it was an even better thing that i got the wizard costume rather than the superman one...poor ching yong hahahaha...he was sweating like crazy as his costume required him to actually wear it as opposed to just draping it over his shoulders like mine (cos mine consisted of just a cape)...Jul's (e b'day gal) din even come dressed up...She wore an artist's hat and that was it..mite as well have held a pencil in one hand and come as an NUS student instead...Tsk tsk...

Nothing much gg on today, supposed to catch Enchanted with Linnet but she go fly kite last minute...Stupid gal...Ur treat this thurs...

PAAARRRRTTTTYYYY!!!!

It's finally over!!! Still hasnt quite sunk in yet...I woke up this morning thinking about what i was going to study today when i remembered that the exams were over...The feeling of liberation and relief was incredible! Definitely NOT overrated...Yet...

And yesterday ended on quite a high note...I thot i did a satisfactory job on the lexi exam which was surprisingly difficult. Of all the numerous concepts Ooi had to choose to come out for the compulsory question, he had to pick some obscure one that is not even a concept and was not even in the notes and readings. For a good 10 minutes i sorta panicked, flipping through my notes hoping to find something on the stupid database called WordNet but to no avail. Thankfully, God gave me some insights and i managed to write about 5 pages worth of stuff for it.

After everything was over, i headed down to Temasek Hall to change into some hipper clothes to go shopping and meet frens for dinner. I always use their toilet after exams to change...always...I have a set of "exam clothes" which comprises of plain v-neck t-shirts and jeans cos they're the most comfortable but which are not 'hip' enuff to hit town. Then i was on my way to Marina Square.

My cell group was supposed to mit at prego but the reservation got cancelled (long story) and we eventually decided to eat at Swensen's instead. While waiting to mit them, i commenced operation shop till i drop phase 1. Bot a pair of black berms from Quiksilver which i've been eyeing (Berms for tall guys like me r really hard to find cos most are always above the knees and become shorts instead) and a singlet from Reef. Then suddenly, got hit by stomach cramps...the go toilet and shit also no use kind...That realli scared me cos that was exactly how i felt before i had food poisioning some few months ago...And of all the sicknesses, i realli hate stomach-related ones the worst! I rather have a cold or a fever, but puking and feeling sick in the gut realli takes the cake...

It was quite bad. But i stayed on...I mean i refuse to fall sick on the 1st day of my hols!!! So i went to mit my cell for dinner, grimacing throughout and acting as if everything was a-ok. And guess what...After i got some food in that rum-tum-tum of mine, the stupid cramps stopped...guess i was just hungry...But still quite worrying though cos i've been feeling bloated since sunday...and i hope yesterday's incident was a random one and not a sign of something bad...

Anyway...Did i mention? I'm realli glad the exams are over! Will be heading to Orchard to shop and catch the Kingdom starring my fav actress jennifer garner w my sis today. Then monday will be catching enchanted with Linnet, Tues will be playing board games at char's and wed will be celebrating my mum's b'day! OOOOO yeah!

THE haircut

On the day of the LIP exam, Cheryl took one look at me and exclaimed in all her sleepy-eyed earnest-ness "WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR HAIR?!?!?!" And that was when i knew i had to cut it...Stella chipped in by saying that i looked like one of those british soldiers wearing one of those tall black hats ala the Nutcracker...And i was like "OK OK I'm cutting it tmr". So i did. But so far both my dad and sis think that i haven't cut it so there clearly hasnt been much of a change apart from the fact that it looks slightly thinner. In a way tt's good cos i want it long and i told my hairdresser, who has a propensity to go scissor-happy, repeatedly that i wanted to keep the length. Hell, i even brought a photo of this guy from the Taiwanese boy-band Faranhiet (Or watever its spelt) to make sure that he gets it rite...I look better with long hair no? I mean i know i look good whatever hairstyle i haf but i do think i look better with slightly longer hair...rite?

Anyway, i really can't wait for the exams to be over tmr...It's probably been the most relaxed sem for me but exams will still be exams and i hate it all the same...Cant wait...Realli can't wait...Hope i can sleep tonite...

Living a life of need is not a life worth living at all...

The case of the slipping pants!

Today, i wanted to try wearing my jeans a bit lower at the hips..Act cool mah...XXX...bad move...As i was walking to Kent Ridge hall from the carpark to sit for the exams, i could feel my jeans slowly but surely slipping lower and lower off my waist...I really dun know how some guys can wear their jeans so low that their undies show...Do they sew it to their underwear which is in turn glued to their skin or wat? (I need to attend "How to wear your pants low-low without it slipping off" 1101E i tell you) Anyway, i stole a secret pull on the way to the hall (the stupid carpark was so far away) but still not good enough. Upon arriving at KRH, i was about to rush to the toilet to readjust my belt when Hannah stopped me to pass me a book she had bought for me on Keeping the Sabbath Day Holy. I quickly thanked her and was about to make my way to the toilet again when Claudia came. She asked me if i had brot our superbly written and skilfully argued project and wanted to know what Lazaar had said. All these while my jeans was slipping down lower and lower (and i cudnt steal a pull with so many people watchin). I rattled off some comments about our project being wonderful and well-written and seeing claudia's satisfied face, quickly excused myself to the loo. FINALLY!!!

When the exam started however, i realized that this time, i had made my belt too tight such that whenever i leant 4ward to write, the belt buckle pressed against my bladder..Win aleady...In 15 minutes i was out of the exam hall to pee...Waste time only...

I wun say the paper was good..In fact it was quite tough...While the issues the exam dealt with were certainly not alien to the course, it was the way she framed them in her questions that really made it shit. You know, sneaky details like "To what extent is power negotiated" which in a moment of anxiety can easily be glossed over as "How is power negotiated" especially since the latter is so much easier to answer...I wrote really little...6 pages for 2 and a half questions to be exact. In fact 1(b) was only half a page long and that worries me. I really hate exams that require you to apply what you learn...I just havent mastered the ability to think on the spot and organize my thots and translate them into words in a short amt of time...But i told myself that i would at least try by avoiding regurgitation of stuff that i memorized and it is on this point then that i would say that the paper went ok. Hope it turns out as ok as i think it did though...We'll just have to wait and see whether regurgitation (hope i'm spelling this rite) or my attempts at application is a better approach to tackling exam questions especially for such modules...

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