Suddenly work is piling up at a scary speed and I am getting increasingly nervous. :s I have to remind myself: what is life if not a struggle. I'm becoming more certain of the theorem: life = hard work (+ other issues that become negligible in the face of hard work). :P Theorems, ehek. I am becoming crazily mathematical, eh? Blame the modules I'm doing this semester. Everything seems to include statistics. I see the Gaussian distribution so many times a week, I now know its probability distribution formula by heart. -_-

Am listening to 1 Litre of Tears' Konayuki. The song itself makes me choke up in remembrance. Life is indeed a struggle. That's why I say: DT!Draco was right to imagine heaven as a final resting place. Speaking of which, did I say I have the full copy of Draco Veritas in PDF now (1647 pages long)? Anyone interested can ask from me! I'm rereading it again myself.

To less depressing things: guess what is playing on TV mobile!!! The HYD movie trailer!!! >.< Arashi's One Love came on and I almost squealed out loud. I swiveled my head around to find the screen but the front screen had conked out so it was blank, and I couldn't see the other tv screen, being stuck in the crowd like a sardine. GAH. I almost exclaimed wtf. I could hear Arashi but I couldn't see the trailer lah, like wth. But nonetheless, I was almost spazzing from the excitement. It's coming out next week. yay yay yay!

oh, also, I have to report that one of my kids in APEX class (the group of P6 madrasah kids I tutor on saturdays) admitted to another mentor that he was afraid of me! O_O That is an absolute first! This means: I managed to be strict enough with a class that they become scared of me! That is amazing. He didn't finish the compo he was supposed to have done and then begged the other mentor not to tell me and not let me mark his work. I still find the whole thing incredible. o_O

The day always seems so short, and I never end up accomplishing what needs to be done. :( My time management skills have not improved over the years. Am always so easily distracted too. Nyah. My problem is that I find too many things interesting. Too many.

Maki is appearing in a drama in October! I am uber excited for that.

Been spazzing over the NEWS Pacific Tour the entire night. If there was a rolling-on-the-ground-happy smiley, I would put one here. ohmegad >.< how did I come to heart them this much?

seriously. love creeps on you, man. before you know it, and without your own volition, BAM! You're in too deep.

Sis and me were like going nuts. Memorable things: Koyama saying that he sings UltraMusicPower when he's happy in the bath. Of course, the Nino crazy stuff. The little girl in the audience asking Ryo why his voice was husky. Tego's whoa Ai Nante performance. Massu saying, "I am a xiao long bao!" at the Taipei concert. And Yamapi looking eternally anime-perfect. How does he do it.

Gah. And I wanted to mug proteins today. So much for study plans.

I'd been feeling somewhat crummy all of today. Kept telling myself to get to working, but somehow never got to doing so. But then, when my mum got home bearing donuts for me and sis, we watched the Lohans on tv and bitched together. And the day got better. And the day got even better when I went online and GUESS WHAT. >.< Clips from NEWS Pacific Tour were on youtube. Ah, it's just so fun. And crazy. I'd been waiting for this! And Newshfan is superb for subbing everything at superspeed. And Nino and Sho appeared. (Nino called Yamapi Tomo-chan and Masuda Giri-Massu - what?! Also, Nino kissed Ryo on the shoulder - again, what?! What is up with this guy.) And Tegoshi tried to remedy his 'superior attitude' by speaking lower >.< fail, I say.

Times like this, I do wonder if I am a bimbo at heart. Ahak. :P It takes so little to make me happy.

Also, today is my parents' anniversary, so we're going out for dinner. And also, Jean's birthday! Happy 21st, my dear. I doubt you read this anymore, but you used to, I think, so I'll say it here anyway.

That's the thing about my blog. I never do know who's reading, except for my usual close friends. This same url has served me for near 5 years now and gone through different batches of people, such that if I were to bother compiling the total range of people who'd know of my blog, I'd be freaked out and be tempted to shut down. But I won't do that. Because I confess, I am clingy. And to this blog I cling, so here I shall stay. To the person who I wouldn't think would be reading my blog: hello! You are welcome anyways. :)

Crap. I officially love Code Blue.

Anyway, I've decided to do a tag I got from Shweta's wonderfully amusing blog. Because I've got nothing better to do, it seems. :P

Rules:

Pick up the nearest book.
Open page 123.
Find the fifth sentence.
Post the next three sentences.
Tag five people, and acknowledge the person who tagged you.


Okay, here goes:

"Well before 9-11, technical studies had concluded that 'a well-planned operation to smuggle WMD into the United States would have at least a 90 percent probability of success'. This has become 'America's Achilles Heel', a study with that title concluded, reviewing the many options available to terrorists. The Council on Foreign Relations Task Force study adds others."

That's from Noam Chomsky's Hegemony or Survival, that's sitting on the table next to my bed, and which I've abandoned since last sem ended. I bought it impulsively cause I was so hyped up about last sem's geopolitics module and got so into American Foreign Policy stuff. Ehek.

So let's see... I tag:

Yu Jie
Lin
Marli
Jiawen
Munirah

(: Night!

Apparently, Yamapi can do no wrong.

I really don't want to start fangirl-raving, but then I was watching Code Blue and his doctor character, Aizawa, did something almost certainly clinically impossible, that I just had to say something. First (a little background knowledge), you should know that for some reason, Yamapi has always just won in a lot of things lah, okay. Variety shows, tv challenges, acting roles, saying the right things etc. Like in Tokyo Friend Park where he jumped damn high and scored so much. And on hey!hey!hey! with the hula hoop game. And various Shounen Club activities, to name a few. So much so that he's somewhat recognised by fellow members for being the ultra-reliable and failproof person.

So anyway, in Code Blue, Aizawa was trying to save someone who got spiked on a metal pipe and the poor guy's heart was failing; the heartrate on the meter was steadily decreasing and the machine was making all the scary beepy noises. And then the heart stopped all together. So then, I was like, "Finally! Aizawa fails to save a patient... " But then, looking all emo with the clenched jaws and incessant fist-clenching, guess what he did? He thumped hard, once, on the guys chest... and voila! The heart beats again.

I was @_@. Magic doctor, is it. I was so incredibly amused.

But ignoring certain fantastical glitches about the capabilities of a certain ER intern, I'm liking Code Blue more than I thought I would. I've harboured a certain disinclination for medical drama ever since Gray's Anatomy (yes, despite its undeniable popularity, I just never took to Meredith or any of the other characters) but surprisingly, Code Blue is working for me. Maybe cause of Yamapi, of course. But even without him, I think, the drama has the right elements in right amounts. And thankfully, no romance in sight.

O_O I just discovered that my biophysics class has a grand total of 20 people. TWENTY ONLY. This freaks me out. The thing about a small class is that it can go two ways: it can turn out to be really really fun and engaging, or it can turn out to be a total nightmare where the lecturer in charge breathes down your neck and expects scary stuff from each student and students stay mute in class. I really hope the lecturer is someone great. >.<

The first day of school was nice enough. (Not counting the running around I had to do to settle my ISM proposal.) Maybe it's a good omen.

Also, textbook expenses are making me go into spasms.

photos! from escape2008 (: It's not in chronological order; more like they're reversed.

This was the bbq chicken lunch. yummy yummy yummy and comfy sofas.



Hanging around Pasir Ris Beach in the morning. And then cycling.










Breakfast: coffee, eggs and kaya toast.





Escape theme park: three frakking rides were closed lah.





Okay, this is just funny. See the white floaty thing? That's Munirah's tudung that went haywire when the ride went upside down!!! >.< It was hilarious.





That's tempura ice cream at Hei Sushi.

school's starting tomorrow. hum.