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they say dreams reveal your truest desires

and so i guess its time to be honest with myself

although i already knew

on 03162302

because of how much that meant to me

even if that didnt really mean anything




i thought that maybe i can

but i cant




i didnt know where tweety bird came from

but now i do

funny how some things can creep into your subconsciousness

oh man oh man at the risk of sounding like the whiniest/most annoying girl ever - it is finally nice and warm out so I can wear my shorts and skirts, but they are all just a little too loose and keep slipping around! cryyy haha. and then I have to keep adjusting them as I sit and stand and make sure I have no (minor) wardrobe malfunctions ): belts are not keeping them up either. because I don't think they were really meant to be worn with belts.

how odd. I don't think I've even lost weight or anything. maybe it's because they're a couple years old and I was chubbier at the waist then or whatever, but I can't quite get rid of them either, because they are in perfectly fine condition otherwise. and anyway, there are no places where I can shop for a new pair of shorts near school, and break is ending so I won't have time to take a bus to a mall.

man it's a tough question, isn't it. I think I'd stick with singapore though, to be honest - at least as far as my experiences go, the country has done quite a lot for me: a safe and stable place to live in, and perhaps more importantly, has covered most of my education (by virtue of my being a permanent resident and then a citizen), if you think about it. and I place a lot of value on educational opportunities.

(granted, certainly, that this also has to do with the fact that I am lucky to have the ability + support + opportunities to have done well in school, thereby qualifying for said edusave scholarships and such, but it's a livejournal writer's block question, I don't want to try and get all political about it here).

10 more working days to closing of the containers!

From the freezing winters of Scandinavia they come and melt our steel hearts with their warm croons and breezy melodies which even the hot tropical summer of Singapore can't thaw.

i'm glad i was at the esplanade concert hall that night.

Dear people, I have finally returned to the land of the living. Yesterday night's concert was awesome, even though I probably fell asleep somewhere towards the end of the third movement. The problem with pieces like the Symphonie Fantastique is that even though it is a truly brilliant work of art, it's a bit difficult to appreciate. Never mind that.

Anyway, the new Macbook has been wonderful. I've been playing a lot with GarageBand and legit Photoshop CS4. Now I've just got to wait for all my files to transfer over to my new laptop and everything will be wonderful.

Okay. Alice in Wonderland with Juanyi tomorrow. Can't wait!

Over dinner (of Thai curry cooked in a metal pot), S and I unearthed some maps and he taught me map analysis. I recalled my first love for map reading and drawing, and graph-sketching. It's an important lifeskill.

http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/archive/2010/03/20.html

garrulous: talkative; also, wordy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-03-20

Picture of the day

An illustration from a ca. 1916 edition of The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby, a children's novel written by the Reverend Charles Kingsley and originally serialised in 1862–63. The book, a didactic moral fable, tells the story of Tom (lower left), a young boy who drowns and is reincarnated as a "water-baby". He undergoes a series of adventures and eventually regains his human form. It was extremely popular during its day and through the 1920s, but has since fallen out of favour, perhaps due to Kingsley's views on religious and political matters expressed in it, such as Americans being chaotic and lazy and Jews being greedy. Illustration: Jessie Willcox Smith; Restoration: ErikTheBikeMan Archive – More featured pictures...

okay, being on break (LAST WEEKEND ACKKK) means that I have the weirdest sleep schedule ever! yesterday after playing laser tag and eating japanese food (rice is my sleep-inducing kryptonite) I intended to take a short nap. it ended up being four hours long.

so after that I ended up staying up really late, till like, 5 a.m. failed to do much reading, but watched Casino Night (is there an equivalent of Netflix in Singapore? for US$8.99 a month you get 1 DVD rental per month, and unlimited streaming of many films and tv shows. it's awesome. I feel like there should be such a service in Singapore, because it might seriously help alleviate piracy. maybe), which naturally made me feel all melancholy but also nostalgic about how damn good this show was. season 2 JIM ♥ and pam! I feel like she was more...sparkly and lively and cheery then.

and then I decided to watch ( New York, I Love You )

and by the time I finished with that, it was 5 a.m. so I slept, woke up at 10.30ish, and was actually productive today! quelle surprise. did my readings in pleasant solitude at Javapalooza where they played good music like sufjan stevens and death cab and bon iver and I ate a delicious strawberry-banana-nutella crêpe for lunch. happiness.

and I just got back a little while ago from a free salsa class at Vinnie's Jump and Jive! one of my friends goes regularly and I decided to accompany her. it's pretty cool but I feel like I am entirely unsexy when I do it haha. although I shouldn't expect much more given that it's my first try ever. I like it though! maybe I'll keep going on friday evenings :D

okay I know I'm recounting really trivial details of everyday life but such is the pace of spending break in a small town! it's certainly not too bad though; the weather is nice and once school resumes on monday, it's back to busy, busy, MAD BUSY. this part of semester is always the busiest.

right, dinner and then I must get more work done.

A couple of my friends got together and opened a guesthouse in Kuala Lumpur. They threw a slumber party for friends to celebrate this which I thought was a wonderful idea as I got sleep in their rooms and experienced first hand the coziness and quietness of the place. The guesthouse has little details left over from the original house which gives it a nostalgic atmosphere as well.

My friends say it's a no frills kind of place but I think with the decor of the rooms and friendly ambiance it's a little on the luxurious side of no frills. Of course the place is Wi-Fi enabled and there are even 2 internet stations upstairs making it easy for guests to get connected.


I believe a trip can be made of broken by the location of the place you stay. Sahabat Guesthouse is really centrally located as it's walking distance to the great clubs and bars along Changkat Bukit Bintang, some really great shopping at Pavillion and the most amazing food just round the corner at Jalan Alor. Despite its central location, the guest house is nestled in a quiet area where many locals live.

We all were free to pick which room we wanted to spend the night in so having arrived early I chose the Suite which has it's own balcony and is the largest of all their rooms. They have a total of eight rooms; 2 standard rooms, 3 deluxe rooms, 1 superior and 1 suite ranging from RM120 - RM180 per night. All rooms have their own attached toilet.

I tweeted about the slumber party and someone tweeted back that it would be a great place to take up for a hens-party or a birthday party. She was right. The slumber part was great fun as we all made a lot of noise laughing, playing and run around to each others rooms. We designated one of the bigger rooms as the hang-out area.

Just to make sure we weren't making too much noise I actually took a walk around the front and back at the height of our rowdy slumber party and I can safely say you can trust buildings of old to take into consideration noise pollution.

So if you're looking for a nice cozy place to stay at a great price or are thinking of a place where you can book out all the rooms which won't be too hard on your wallet, try Sahabat Guesthouse.

Check them out at their website http://www.sahabatguesthouse.com.

I think I look older than I should. Oh dear. Maybe it's just my imagination but everytime I pass a reflective surface and automatically check myself out (okay, odd phrasing), I notice my eyebags/panda eyes/dark circles. I'm only in M1! Goodness knows how I'll look like next year. Or the year after.. or... oh deary me. It's not as if I don't sleep either. I firmly believe that sleep helps me integrate my information and would rather study less than sacrifice sleep (for now, anyway).

:(

::( <-- the eyebags.

Selling


By Lowell:

Only Love (excellent condition)   $6





Whirlpool (spine creases but still in good condition)  $5






By Dodd:

Move Heaven and Earth (excellent condition)   $6




Meet ups only. Preferably at Jurong East/ Boon Lay/ Bukit Batok/ Chua Chu Kang MRT stations. Email me at neon_no_iro@hotmail.com

I'm sitting here drawing graphs carefully with a 15cm ruler, and I've just discovered that (1) the ruler's edge has become slightly jagged from wear, presumably against other junk in my pencilcase (2) my most-used ink pen has colored the edge of the ruler black, which occasionally leaves a smear on the page.

I don't think I've encountered these issues since primary school! There's even a collection of correcting fluid marks all over the ruler. At some point - college, maybe - I lost whatever habits I picked up to avoid stuff like this. I'm not even sure when I started carrying a pencilcase around again, there was a point in college when I just had one well-worn pen in a shirt pocket wherever I went.

edit: and I've just dipped my hand in correction fluid.

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http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/archive/2010/03/19.html

matutinal: relating to or occurring in the morning.