I'm getting so cranky from reading it annoys even me! And it's not like I even read for the whole day! I only started at 2, had like an hour break for lunch, and then stopped at 6 to take care of domestic issues like make coffee, heat up food, etc. And now I feel so angsty I don't feel like doing anything. *Heavy sigh* I even lashed out at a chair. Because it's orange and cushioned. (Whaaat??!)

Anyway, I, for the first time in my Asian life, am sick of eating rice. So yesterday I made imitation rice-ball/ onigiri with none of the usual ingredients for lunch. Except while balling the rice up I thought it'd taste good dipped in egg and breadcrumbs. So I tried doing that, except the breadcrumbs were more bread than crumbs. And the entire thing was tasteless. Chili sauce had to come to the rescue.

My parents were out during dinner yesterday, so I decided to make dinner for my sister and I. I was still sick of plain rice, so I tried making ricecakes with (instant) cream of mushroom soup. But so many mishaps happened in the making of these damned rice cakes, I felt like crying and was moaning, "Why me? Why today?! Why??!!" The lack of normal ingredients, the burning of the scallions and garlic, and oil shooting at my face and arms were the least of my problems.

Numero uno: The entire house was filled with smoke when I was frying the ricecakes. They weren't burning or anything, but the frying pan just emitted so much smoke... The kitchen window was open, but I guess the sheets hanging right across it blocked the smoke from going out the window.

Number two: My frying pan caught on fire! I looked away for one second to put a fried ricecake on the plate, and when I looked up I was shocked to see fire about 10 cm high dancing over its surface, when there wasn't even any food on it. I eventually got to douse it... with the oil already on the pan.

Number three: The vegetable oil bottle cap fell into the frying pan, after it'd slipped out of my fingers when I was trying to keep the bottle. I had to fish it out of the pan with the ladle. Now it looks all deformed and wrinkly and spotty. Needless to say (but still I'll say it) I changed the oil, pan and the ladle. So that added another 10 minutes to my cooking time.

Eventually what was supposed to be 40 minutes of cooking because an hour and a half, plus sitting and waiting for my sister to come home so we could eat. Aigoya....

My mum's birthday is today, and I stayed up till 3 to make her card. My third card of April, but my pop-up skills are not improving at all. I made three different types of pop up cards this month, but I'm so proud of them! They take me a long time to make but I like crafty stuff (sly laugh). And my mum's card is now sitting pretty in a vase of (plastic) flowers.

I think I'll go have dinner with my family now.

Who said studying can't be fun?

I apologise if this bursts your eardrums.

Yet another post this fine morning, but I had a really nice, yet not nice dream while taking a 20 minute break from readings. I dreamt that suddenly my whole family appeared at my hostel door just because they coincidentally happened to be in the area. How nice. Then I woke up, and realised there was no one around.

I seriously do feel like I'm recovering though=) It usually takes a week to recover from a cold, but I'm hoping I'll only be left with burning eyes tomorrow by the time I take the exam.

All in all, I'd say going to sleep at 10.30 and forsaking any studying was a reasonable choice, even if the entire night was spent fitfully tossing about. I feel horrible still today, but not as bad as yesterday. Perhaps it was the two Panadol Extras plus the two chlorphenamines that actually helped.

At least there's something to be said for yesterday: Usually, one day all alone in hostel makes me all homesick, but yesterday I was just sick. Hence only reading lectures and none of my 49 readings.

It's no good to be hovering between "so sick I can't study" and "not sick enough to miss an exam" hahaha.

I came back to hostel Saturday night at 10.30 pm to study...

...but it's 5.40 Sunday and I haven't even started yet on readings.

Bloody runny nose and fever :(

I've been sleeping on and off since I woke up at 10

but I think I'll start to feel better soon, so yay!

The only other irritating thing is: How to study for HS 102?

Besides Com 203, this is the only course in which I have no idea how to even begin structuring potential answers, since I don't know how potential questions will be like.

Which brings me to HS 101's catastrophe... you think you know how questions will be asked (in fact, that's how the whole cohort thought), and then the lecturer drops everyone a bombshell. Oh well, failing together means passing hahaha. I'm depending on you, all my coursemates, to have thought the way that I think you thought!

I'm so not in the mood to do readings; I think I'll re-read lecture notes first

why does it feel like the 'a' levels are going on only when i'm in the exam hall?
it's so hard for me to concentrate on studies all day, everyday,
when people at home keep interrupting me with this and that
i study better when everybody leaves me alone
at two o'clock in the morning...

and during the day,
life's still going on around me
and let me tell ya, life is interesting!
it feels a shame to have to miss out on it...

like free tickets to watch quantum of solace on saturday!
should i go or not?
it'd be such a waste either way...

i do hope all the freaking out that has been going on is just due to exam stress
because i'd hate for it to be permanent

fin*

(killer... killers!)

just spent the day studying at pat's house
we had lunch at pizzahut and continued post-'a's planning
fun! and we had tim tams!

i kept falling asleep while reading econs on pat's bed
... i'm such a noob ...
haha

(i want a license plate that reads:
SXD 8D
just so i can have two smileys on it!)

my word, i only realised today how stressed joel must be
papers almost everyday of this week
with only a break on wednesday!
and he still has papers next monday through wednesday too
poor him!

which reminds me i need to continue to mug today
nap for one hour now
then study till america's next top model for an hour break
then trudge on with the mugging!
and it's not because i'm extremely hardworking,
it's only because i've been finding it extremely hard to study during the day
so i must make up for it at night!
i must!

fin*


motto: now we must mug like the paper's tomorrow!
so later we can party like there's no tomorrow!



i like this dress!

the maths paper was a killer!!!

and i may adore the killers, but this sort i cannot tolerate!

eugghhh...

pat and i took 966 home from school today
but we took it the whole loop!
so it was an hour and a half at least,
due to the blasted traffic jams

it wasn't so bad though
we did get to discuss the not-so-very-distant post-a level future!
weee!
like the sleepovers and movie watching and post-prom -
just the respite i needed after the massacre that was maths

... if anybody found the paper easy, keep it to yourself!
i certainly do not want to hear it!
don't say it!!!!
so demoralising!!! T_T
and don't get you panties in a twist about what i can or cannot tell people on my blog
it's my blog! i'm in control!
me! ME!!!

okay
tension's out.
eh.
maths just sucks.
so does cambridge for screwing us over.
boohoohoo! leave me in peace while i cry out my desolateness!

haha
so melodramatic.
okay then
see ya'll!

fin*

p.s. just to cheer up the womenfolk,
here's eye candy!
he's the guy playing james in twilight
who tries to kill bella
i.e. he's evil!!!
haha