TimeOut

I've just received an influx of SMSes in the last few hours I was practically replying nonstop especially with an Ericsson phone that lags as if it were mocking my lack of time. The SMSes were for every other reason, from the SV peeps organising something yet again to people asking for more favours to the good luck wishes to haowen wanting to discuss how we could cut costs and make the handbell symposium as economical as possible to the many friends who just wanted to catch up for old times sake.

I love that feeling really. No, I really really do. But it was the first time I told people I need a time out. Kitkat would be fine too of course :) Hm and I just realised I have 4 more SMSes before I'll have to foot my own phonebill. Woops!

Ah well. Fmaths today was a disaster just waiting to happen. But now that it's out of the way..

I'll be finishing off with physics and econs tomorrow!

And then the cycle starts all over again.

Bliss

I'm yet again the only soul online! Listening to Corrinne May in the wee hours of the morning is absolute bliss :)

I can't fathom why but I just felt really glad to be back in school yesterday! Many things have changed, the concourse floor tiling and the General Office which now looks like a fishtank and even our Vice Principal is new, I seem to have lost touch with knowing things before hand after stepping down from council haha but it doesn't matter it's good to have all these little surprises in your life.

And then I got to see everybody again! As huiping aptly puts it, there is this certain sparkle in the eyes of the SV people when we meet in school. I guess it's all in the company! I mean it's quite hard to feel unmotivated when you're around happy people who are all ready to work together and embrace life and dive into our passions. Heard that a few of them met in the canteen and soon all the SV people there started this little congregation but I think I was on my way home by then..

More good things today and many more to come! Our Passion board was suspended (supposedly deleted) due to a bug yesterday and I freaked out for a while but it's now up and running after I chased and bombed the admin lol. The 2006 International Handbell Symposium is now open for registration too. Am thinking of signing up for GYLC but it's a little steep and there's a slight chance that I may be going back to SV next year so I don't know! Anyway I'll be funding all my trips from now on so I really have to.. manage.

And by the end of today half of blocks will be over :)

La!

It's 6pm and I'm the only J2 on MSN! Woah! This is a first!

GP and maths were not too bad :)

Decapitated

It seemed like yesterday when I was oh so excited about going over to California. And then I realise that the holidays have ended and it seems like I've been trapped in a little time bubble.

Those 10 days were perhaps the best times I've had in VJ. It's really amazing how living and facing the same people for just 10 days everyday can make you grow so attached to each other. Spirits are still high and the fervour has not diminished although we are now placed back into our individual cages. All the withdrawal symtomps have set in (I've started making my own american breakfast) and the surprising volume of emails flying around each others mailboxes although the exams are near just speaks for itself, with all that ambitious talk about the unlimited possibilities like setting up a CCA to the stuff that is already being done like getting a board and a regular meeting place and tshirts and parties and the likes...

Ironic as it sounds, this is exactly how I imagined council to be.

So I've forsaken my blocks. Fmaths at least. Still trying to learn enough to pass the other 3 subjects. But somehow after returning from SV I can't care less this time round. The sacrifice was worth it, in return for the learning opportunity of a lifetime. I'm quite sure we can all catch up on our academia, or that's what I keep telling myself hm.

As someone put it so aptly, we now have the spirit to study and not mug. Incidentally I was reading py's blog and it reminded me how learning concepts could be oh so fun.

"When someone tries to get close to her, she would distant herself away from him. Yet when he moves away from her, she wants to get him back to her side. Essentially, thats Lenz law. In layman's terms, when yu push the magnet close to the coil it results in a repelling effect. and when yu pull it away an attracting force is created."

And then we had the ideal BGR which was Newton's third law that when a boy loves a girl there is an equal and opposite attraction which made for such perfect romance.

And then there was alpha being the fish and gamma being the deadfish. And it did not just stop at physics I still remember our very own homologous series with all our nicknames/surnames being classified into groups and then there were the bio jokes too!

Those were the days.

Though these hols have been extraordinary too! Was consolidating my SV stuff and I realised my journal entries take up 4 MiccWord pages per day, font 11. Quite a great feat since I'm normally quite relaxed with the details.

Think I shall just stop here and salvage my maths as much as I can. Ta!

Pinch Me

There was a joke that my cousin told my brother when he was five years old. The joke went, "Fat and FatFat and PinchMe were in a boat. Fat and FatFat fell out. Who was left?" And my brother said, "Pinch Me." and my cousin pinched him. So when my brother got home he told my mother he was going to tell her a joke, and he said, "Fat and FatFat were in a boat. Fat and FatFat fell out. Who was left?" My mother said, "Nobody." My brother repeated the joke, and when my mother said "Nobody" a second time, my brother kicked her.

Twenty years went by.. I was always older than my brother, and my mother still talks about my brother's fury at her incorrect response. But little did she know that all he wanted was to relate to her what had been done to him.

- One of the more innocent bits from Slaves of New York.