so~ it was subject registration on Monday. its the first time students were required to register for subjects before their results are announced... so if you fail any subjects, you either screw up your schedule, drop subjects you took, or gets overloaded mercilessly.

i woke up at 9am to agonise over the subjects i wanted to take, match timetables with friends... and come 12.30pm, i switched off all redundant programs, entered the registration system... and sat with my mouse poised at the "register!" button, with a second-to-second countdown timer on the screen.

registration's at 1pm. so as the second hand hit 12, i hit the button, and ironically in my haste the mouse jerked upwards by 1mm while clicking. and it didn't send through! i clicked again immediately! and...

i got 2 out of the 5 time table slots i initially wanted.

den i had to change one of the slots to accommodate the other slots i didn't manage to get.

den i couldn't get one of the MODULES i wanted, so i had to do some last minute research into other modules. and i ended up with a really hard one.

and at the last minute, as registration was closing... i saw one miserable slot open up for the module i wanted. its too late. i'd just spend an hour convincing myself that the new module i took was better than the one i had wanted, and i let the one last slot slip away. *cries*

*cries* i'm screwed even before the term starts. 

A fun day~!

Woke up at 8am to go to school for a meeting regarding the website system. I didn't need to say a word throughout - my tutor did all the talking.

Den came back to hall, read azumanga, and scooted back to school to meet my a career counsellor for 15 minutes. came back and... bumped around?

Den came 5pm, and I ran off to Novena for the Imagereel|2006 post event celebration at Vienna! It was fantastic!!! The best buffet I'd ever had in my life~ Together we ate $400 worth, although we only needed to pay $5 each.

There's Buddha Jump Over the Wall, shark's fin soup, abalone, lots of oysters, sashimi, cocktails, crabs, prawns, cakes, and a multitude of soups - chicken and mushroom (its put in a small teapot with a cup-lid, and you pour the soup out into the cup to drink), crocodile soup (tastes very... unique), some baby-drink thingie that had some... woodear'?' in it....

There's Teppanyaki. Satay. Sushi. Pasta. Chocolate fondue, with mashmallow and fruits to dip with. Ice cream. 

Spicy cockles. Fried durians. Black pepper crab. Cheese-baked oysters.

The sec and me played games to finish up the cocktails. I think we drank quite a lot between us.

We went to the toilet and walked around the shopping centre twice between eating.

We stayed from 6.30pm to 10.00pm.

I think i'm skipping breakfast and lunch tomorrow.

wish i could bring my parents there next time; but for all that good food, i don't really think we could eat the price's worth in our stay. sigh. 

Its the Yew Tee Open on Sunday, and I went there to get horribly thrashed by the people there. They are really strong. But it was highly influenced by luck as well; some games I had a fighting chance to win were lost due to ultra bad luck - a consonant rack 3 turns straight even though I had a turnover of 3 tiles per turn. the opponent getting all the blanks, S's and power tiles (except Z). inability to see bingoes...

At least i think i wasn't last... (>.<) 

sigh~ quite demoralized after the game, but HUT! the ultimate aim is to excel during the IHG! now i know how weak i am, i must fight on! train harder! kill halls! and defend the IHG gold medal!

FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! 

on thursday lester walked into the room, and said "it stinks!" and yep, there's a subtle smell of something fermenting. i scouted around the room, but can't pinpoint where the smell is from; i suspected it to be around my desk area, although i couldn't for the life of me comprehend wat it was.

we left for home, and on saturday night, when i opened the door, the smell hit us like a hammer. instead of spending the night training for the open, i cleaned up the area near the desk. lots of dust, and i found this huge black unidentified insect/spider dead amongst my wires. it really spooked me out. 

so today i came with my parents determined to find the cause of it all. we cleaned up the place, and den i realized... the fridge is leaking! the freezer has frozen up completely. i haven't opened it for a while since i've nothing much in it anymore, and so didn't notice the huge slab of ice.

so we cleared out the fridge, hammered off the ice... and den we realized that without the mango jelly's smell masking the fridge area, the fridge top really stinked. and den i remembered... yy seemed to have some eggs still in the plastic bag, on the fridge, and had been there since before the exams.

god. i'll forever remember the smell.

it was the ultimatum when we lifted the plastic bag up and it started dripping yellow stuff. it was an egg bomb. it was horrible. i almost gagged. and the stuff had dripped all behind the fridge, and we had to clean up the whole shit... thank goodness my parents helped out...

and lester didn't have any air freshener, i couldn't stay over at his place, and so i'm now stuck in a corner of the room blogging and waiting for the smell to dissipate with time. 

maybe i should just sleep with the door open. 

once again, i am burnt out.

which isn't really a good thing, coz everytime this happens i'll feel like hurting someone. and that someone almost always happens to be me.

i'm standing at the mouth of a waterfall, and i'm pushing back with all my might. isn't it disgraceful, continuing to fight so hard for a battle you knew you would lose? my pride is hurt that i am reduced to such a state.

it is time i stop to think about why i always end up in such a predicament, being clamped down upon by responsibilities and people and troubles from every where.

the responsibilities are mine. i just couldn't bring myself to push them off. the people are all around. i have to live with them.
the troubles came because of me. because i was careless in everything. whenever i have a lot to do, i tend to miss out gross details.

i really admire the people who can handle everything thrown at them with ease. does it come with experience? or is it a natural 'ability', which i would never have?

i feel that i care too much; but at the same time i have the guilty feeling that i'm not caring enough. which means i'm an paradoxical idiot, doesn't it?

i'm finally on a 3 day break now. there's so many things i want to do, but i just can't be bothered. i want to sit in a corner of my room and stare at the blank white walls to clear the thoughts in my head.

my life is going to go downhill from here.

 

first up, to all who's been trying to reach me on hp... merry christmas! my hp's out of commission, wohohohoho. coz i forgot my charger in hall. >_<

spent the day trying to bake cookies for lester's christmas present. the result was horrible, but he still ate it. i didn't know that cookies become harder after cooling, so when my first batch came out soft, i added more 1/2 cup more flour - it became rock hard. and den it became "lou fong". i'm sorry lester... i'll stick to the recipe next time... (but i halved the sugar, and its pretty sweet already right? :))

den i went over to les' for dinner. there was log cake, pizza, honey chicken and ham... and i tried to clear virgin ling tong on hard. missed by only a little~ les went ballistic coz of my reckless playing. ah well.

anyway~ merry christmas~~~ i've to go to bed and prepare to work hard tomorrow. hehz. 

 

today is the first day of the Scrabble IHG. so far we'd played 5 games, of which we won 5-0 all the way. with a total spread of around 800 each. we rock.

sigh~ not really. the group we are competing in before the semifinals is not a very tough one... some of the opponents aren't even familiar with the 2 letter words. well~ doubles-wise, if we met against a pair who knows what they are doing, the outcome might not be very pretty. -__-

its 2 more rounds tomorrow, and then it'll be the semifinals and finals!

i'm really really really worried for the match against Hall 6; their doubles are pretty much undefeated today. and seeing as how they were going up against the stronger contenders such as Hall 8 and 9, their strength pretty much speak for themselves.

i need to get stronger. in time for tomorrow.

and i need to apologise once again for smoking all you innocent opponents today, and i apologise in my partner's place as well. (although it IS your faults that you did not challenge, wahaha. i could have done worse)

Botanier for 149 points <<< my highest ever bingo word. is not good.

Ade for 24 points <<< is not good.

Ilac for 20 points <<< is once again, not good. 

and from my partner's side....

Stut. <<< WHY DIN YOU CHALLENGE?!?

Ni. <<< die, opponent, die.

Edi. <<< haha. 

B-I-NGO, B-I-NGO, B-I-NGO, and.....? (Bingo is my name) <the song my partner came up with.

so we played hall 15 and won 5-0 again. and for the last game, we just couldn't be bothered, and just anyhow whacked. i went to play singles, and lester went to play doubles with a reserve. ironically, it was not me or les who lost, but our main doubles. (o_____o)

so its 4-1.

and den it was the semi-finals~ and we won 4-1 again against beth's hall~ (beth's going out with our ex-captain; i'm the captain this year). eddie came up with an evil plan; they fielded their single players as double players, and left beth to kill one of our single players. almost lost; in a way i feel eddie is stronger then us. but we landed a few power tiles, and i played them for 50+ points. den i threw out a bingo. eddie almost disowned our newfound friendship. wahahaha (no guilt at all)

and surprisingly, hall 3, whom we won 5-0 before actually killed their opponent team 4-1 and came to kill us in the finals. and they almost did!

we won 3-2; shunda lost to their very strong new-found player(who was absent yesterday), and i lost to their doubles player by a miserable 16 points. it was a very close game; if only...!!! if only....!!!

and liying almost lost to their doubles team as well; it was a close shave for them.

to think... we almost lost the championship medal... all because of my 'if only...!!!'

but we won. we need to get stronger. all that's left now is boggle, which... is pretty hopeless; i pretty much feel like just walking over the game. grrr.

had a celebration at swensen's at Jurong Point. feli's treat. and the fish baked rice was horrible. 

 

 

Yesterday was our NTU class gathering. i only remembered at 5.30pm, and the meeting was 6pm at city hall. so i immediately messaged the organizer to say that i'll be horribly late. she replied that, everyone would be horribly late.

i reached at 6.30pm. one person was there, but i didn't know who, so i finished 2 children's books at MPH. around 7pm, the organizer reached. around 8pm, everyone was here.

so we ate dim sum at the Dim Sum place in Marina Square. the service sux. the waiter splashed tea all over our dishes and some landed on our jacket/bags. we ordered ice water twice before they came. the waitress din understand wat 'plate' and 'chopsticks' meant. ah well. the final bill came up to $12 each, and the food was pretty good.

den we bought this gargantuan chocolate cake from Han's which was fantastic. we couldn't finish it between the 14 of us. den we went around looking for a coffee place to chat, even though we barely have enough left in our wallets to afford a drink. haha. i left halfway at 11pm.

and when i reached home at 11.30pm, the sports sec called me up to go down to hall to play table tennis the next day at 9am. i missed the table tennis. i wanted our hall to win. the sports sec was a hunk. (nah.) so i said yes, and i woke up at 6.30am to take the MRT down to school. and we lost. ah well. (we walked over 2 tables,  and the first player lost, so we lost even before my turn. at least i won, so its 4-1)

so i went down to watch my scrabble partner play rugby. didn't get the chance, as the 3 opponent halls decided to walk over when they saw our big hulks. we got to the quarterfinals without breaking a sweat.

and now i'm back in hall, ranting about how tired and grumpy i am.

oh, i never got to the tired and grumpy part.

basically i was insomniac last night; couldn't sleep for 3-4 hours grousing over why i lost my scrabble match and how i'm ever going to win my table tennis match after a 1 year hiatus. mostly why i lost my scrabble match. i'm sorry. i just hate losing.

and i'm grumpy coz when i woke up at last at 6.30am i realized i didn't have a decent pair of shoes to wear to the match. the majority of my shoes were hard, uncomfortable, and one or two sizes too large as my father insisted on buying them overseas in china (when i'm not around) coz they are cheaper.

sure, i've had shoes that fit me, but their soles wore off, and couldn't be glued on again after 2 months at my mercy. i have one pair of shoes that fit me and i like very much, but it has elevated soles, and i sprained my ankle running with it. i had another which fitted me, is alive, and which i don't like very much, but i lent it to a friend in an emergency and she's yet to return it to me (after one year!).

so i took one pair of shoes from the cupboard that's one size too big, tied it on very very tight and made off for school. the sole just, fell off! while i was standing around waiting for my turn.

and the stupid thing is, i borrowed a pair of shoes, reebok, from a friend who happened to bring her shoes along for her netball game, and damn, it fitted me better den any of my shoes, and i finally understood wat the word 'traction' meant. really. i was astonished, astounded, surprised at how a pair of shoes can actually hug the ground so snugly. it doesn't slide when i turn. i don't inch backward when starting off from v=0. there's friction at the front AND back. and i actually felt a little bouncy. i started fantasizing about how i could wear such a pair of shoes to school even in rainy weather, and not need to hold out both hands for balance. i need to save up $100 for a reasonable pair of shoes.

well, if i sounded grouchy, be reminded that i only had 2.5 hours of sleep, no breakfast, and no lunch yet. (my mother stole my ramly burger coz she cooked for 2 people and i should eat home-cooked food)