Life is beautiful

i'm quite satisfied with my slacker's life right at the moment. not needing to wake up and face work is really a luxury. i think i can forget about earning money this holiday. afterall, its our very last holiday and i think we deserve a break.

spent most of the day with dad at expo to look at the IT stuffs. and dad managed to get the mini laptop he wanted since his own is a gone-case. i've decided that, i shall get my digicam, webcam, and portal hard disk next year, while waiting for the prices to continue to drop. meanwhile im hoping my laptop wont fail me, or i'll cry cuz i dont exactly haf a backup for all my files. and manage to make my new specs today =D heh in my fav colour.

drama shows - im loving it.
aniwae i think the 9pm little nohnya show is not too bad. its a 'can-watch' show.

without school, staying at home can be pretty boring. so i went down to check out the new northpoint alone on a monday evening and business was really brisk. i think the number of patrons really improved a lot with the new outlook and shops. oh, and i found a japanese foodcourt at the 2nd highest level, and some few shops which made me significanly more satisfied than the old horrible lousy building. aniwae, the old building is undergoing a full reconstruction now, and hopefully even more new shops will spring up muahahaha.

wanted to borrow some novels from the library.. but i think its one of the libraries that i will hate the most... cuz of the children's section!! i absolutely dislike all the noise the little kids make, and there are tonnes of them running about the library, playing catch, and hogging on to the library cataloge without really using them. and its not only popular with the kids, but with the elderly too. i see tonnes of 'broken' newspapers lying around on the shelves, and this is the 1st time im seeing the very 'studious' side of the ah peks hahaha. all sitting down and reading their papers.. they remind me of primary sch chinese teachers. oh but other than the noise and buzzling activity in the library, i think its pretty fine... high percentage of the books are brand new.. except they dont carry the books that i like or want. or the books are perpetually on loan or in transit. borrowed 2 books but i haf yet to touch them. but i guess i will, when i get tired of looking at the computer screens.

i wonder wad i'll be doing for the next few days... i cant wait to step out of my hse to breathe in the fresh air!

i swear i will turn in before 2am today. this is to make up for my loss of sleep, all the tortures i did to my body for the past 2 weeks. every day closer to the exams i was stretching my limits.... and for the last 2 days i had only 4 hours of sleep each. so now im a bit groggy. i donnoe how much brain cells i've killed trying to implant all the memory work into it. esp when both exams were only 2 days apart.

wad i had for the last 2 weeks was
- pimple outbreak
- irritation.
- coffee
- serious lack of sleep
- puppy invasion
- poor appetite
- birthday surprise
- lots of facebook taggings

yessss suddenly on facebook all the pri sch photos and some sydney choir pics started appearing. i donnoe why.. i think some1 started off the trend of uploading the pictures of good-old-days, so i see a lot of old pictures on my newsfeeds. aniwae, its been close to 10 years.. and i can only say, my memory is failing! cuz i practically cant remember where the hell i took those pictures. hahaha.. and many things have been blurred after all these years of mugging... and huimin was so cute back then...

the puppy invasion since last week was kindof a addition to my stress, in a period of time when i needed my sleep the most, and full concentration on my studies. but yes i was so stressed up that a small incident like that i would have usually tolerated (or rather accepted) well got me so pissed and irritated. but the cute, playful yet naughty puppy wasn't the 1 i was upset with.. (though he was the cause of my problems). he made me lose sleep 1 entire night, that i did not manage to sleep for even 1 minute. and the next morning some1 had to just say un-nice things that got me fed up that i took my things and went to sch to escape any more unneccesary stress. it is times like this that i wish i have a room of my own... but even then our doors cant be sound-proof right? i guess after this incident, my level of tolerance can only go higher. and then 1 day i'll find myself being able to be angry at nothing perhaps hahhaha..

and then amidst this horrible period, we held a birthday surprise for our dear soph.. that was the happiest time cuz it only made me forget about the exam stress and laugh so much.

the new northpoint has finally opened! almost complete! and i havent gotten a chance, or rather i didn't dare, to walk around the new compound except for the basement where they have a variety of finger food. to quote macs, I'M LOVING IT.
just to name the basement foodstores alone, there is four leaves, old chang kee, chewy junior, dong dae mun, gelare, pizza cone, pie kia, some bubble tea store, sushi deli, prima deli, some prata stall, kfc and somemore which havent opened yet i think. and i heard the upper levels have even more restaurants!! at least i saw xin wang hk cafe. and business since their opening have been brisk. lots of shoppers during the weekends. and not forgetting the library that i shall head to often now!! i no longer have to take the bus or train to the next nearest library = i get to read more books =DD

and right after exams today, we 5 went to reward ourselves with sushi buffet! ate pretty much.. but u noe wad, at 1.22am now, i think i can still eat somemore wahahhahahaha. my thirst has finally been quenched, and the food has totally digested. =p i think this always almost happens after the exams. when i no longer have to think so much, my appetite increases. so im expecting to hit the big 4 again this holiday, before i drop back again. and i think after a hard struggle, there will be even more rewards coming up. =) till we get back to serious mugging again.. but ultimately, i hope the rewards will also show in our transcript hahaha...

our timetable for next sem is up again, and so is the exam schedule. a quick look, our very last paper in NTU will be 23rd april, which i think is considered quite early since, sem 2 exams usually end in may. but then again, our papers seem to be in close proximity to each other, so i expect a lot of stress again.. and our timetable is back to the kind of 8.30 to 5.30 timeslots (not everyday though), except we no longer have saturdays!

i think this year, we haf the most hiong sem, and the most slack sem. 1 with 29AUs, 1 with 18AUs. i think next sem will be back to the usual not-so-slack sem. i doubt i can go out often anymore like i did this sem. and omg, its our last sem before graduating frm ntu. that is how fast. and when i flipped my calendar just now, its like omg. so fast.

and i shall end off here cuz im starting to see black spots, and i'll make sure i wont wake up till its afternoon.
'Doing what you love is not a recipe for an easier life. It is a recipe for an intersting life.'
by Andrew Matthews from Happiness in a Nutshell.

i just read something that gave me goosebumps for the 2nd time of the day. people can really lose their conscience huh.. *cross fingers that nothing like that will ever happen to us*.

today i woke up, washed up and all set to go off for class when i realised my tape wasn't sticky animore, so i needed a change. i opened the side compartment of my zheng, and OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG!!!!!! wad i saw really gave me goosebumps, the cold chill went thru my entire body. my side compartment was INFESTED WITH ANTS and THEIR EGGS!!!!!! ARGHHHHH. MY POOR PIECE OF WOOOOOD! and 10 mins left to catch the bus i thot i could get them dead first before i rush off for class and come home and do the total clean-up. but i decided that wont do in the end. i msged my classmates and told them 我在打仗，不去上课了!

and stupid me, didn't immediately think of insecticide, i used the MAGIC CLEAN that was the nearest available to me to start my attack. and later on out came BAYGON, PLEDGE, screwdrivers, toothpicks, nails, towelpapers, water... but my best weapon, my warrior, my pest controller, aka my dad, was OUT as usual on his sunday RUN/JOG!! and he coldly replied 'u have to fight urself cuz im still running'. so i had to 孤军作战! my tuner, zheng, roll of tape, screw thingy, and every corner of that tiny box was FILLED WITH EGGS. OMG. and i merely didn't touch it for a week. i am SOOO going to spray baygon every week from now. like where the h*** did they come from!! but thx goodness they weren't termites or my wood would have been eaten up.

i really meant to 斩草除根. i unscrewed all the nails i could find in my zheng, and started cleaning like a mad woman. i had to undo 2 strings cuz the ends were blocking my way at the nest of eggs, used toothpicks to dig out ani hiding enemies. wadever i could soak in water i did. even my zheng stands i sent them to the toilet immediately for a shower. oh mans. i didn't care if they were made of wood or not. lolx. i only didn't dare send my zheng for a shower. even my tuner with all that electrical parts, i was prepared to sacrifice, i put it under water immediately to rid them. i thot it would be a goner, but as usual in the end dad saved it.. and helped me a little when he reached home... after they were all dead and cleared. and i had to retune all freaking 21 strings! cuz they were shoved and handled roughly by the aunty in me. and when finally i was done with all the cleaning up, and polishing of my wood, i used up the entire morning!! close to 4 hours. my classmates on the other end of the phone were 'cheering' for me and all so excited and gross at the same time to hear wadever happened lols. 1 of them got paranoid cuz she hasn't touched hers for 3 months lolx. i was sweating at the end of the war. but of cuz with a sense of satisfaction cuz i WON!!

and now that i've won the war, its time to start pointing fingers. of cuz i'll point at the dog!! i figure out that his meal bowl which is just beside my zheng is the cause of alllll my problems. becuz the dog is an absolutely spoilt brat, hes so picky with his food that sometimes he doesn't eat his food, and thus attract all the ants on earth, and where is the most convenient place for ants to set up a home? right beside it! right into my zheng! so they can snatch the food before the dog does! ya so at the end i was sweating and damn tired for cleaning up the entire area as well. left no nest unturned. buay tahan. thou shall not let off any ants! oh does ani1 noes how big the eggs were?? as big as themselves! and the ants were frantically protecting their unborn really. so cute but gross. i think i killed hundreds of lives today? couldn't tahan all the gross stuffs that could have contaminated me, and so i showered at such an unearthy afternoon hour!! but thx goodness its raining so its not so warm.

aniwae, because i've wasted my entire weekend starting friday (and i feel extremely guilty about it), doing nothing productive but slacking, i've decided to restrict my internet usage starting 2mr! so offffline i shall be, and i mean off the entire laptop line lolx.

ohs. i'm loving the new northpoint that i see! jap food, korean food (not opened yet), taiwanese food, thai food, fast food, bakery, bubble tea, pie kia, and new shops =D and a library! good finger food = good lunch = more high tea = more snacking =)

oh and i was busy watching videos too online these days after the lab reports ended (and thus im even more guilty). heh watch a little of the jin zhong jiang. my fav actress won!! happy!

till the 21st! im gg to mug hard i promise.