The boxes have arrived!
Monday, June 19, 2006
The boxes have arrived... again. This is the second time we're moving in one and a half years. But I think this time is better 'cos in the first round we had already filtered and thrown away most of the stuff that were rendered junk, thus during this second round, we have fewer things to pack. And this time is easier for me too, 'cos I found it easier to be heartless with my stuff. I usually get very nostalgic when I pack my room, even during spring cleaning, and won't bear to throw away things.
That's the main reason why I hate to pack. I have so many things I used to collect as a kid that I can't bear to throw because they contain memories for me. I'm like an old junkie who collects everything and anything. From stickers to stamps to letters to postcards to phone cards to wine bottle corks to one-cent coins. (Is there anything I don't collect?) I also still keep my chemistry and biology test tubes from JC, and my primary school diaries (haha!), yup complete with that ugly primary school kid scrawling and
bad spelling. I also have my art and craft stuff i.e. paintbrushes, paints, pencils, from secondary school. The only things I found easiest to pack were my books. I'll never have to throw them away because I can still read them, so in that sense they have some value and such.
I have at least 5 boxes of letters, which I'm going to sieve through and get rid of half at least. I don't want to but I can't think of anywhere I can put them plus I don't think I will read them again, especially those little notes from secondary school days that go: "Hi Mitch, Physics is boring me. What are you doing? Love, XXX." or "Hi! Just wanna write to give you a hug :) Love, XXX." Well, we were bored in secondary school, and Valentine's day were days when people went out giving little notes of love and gifts (usually candy or chocolate) to classmates, close friends etc. It made you feel like you were important even if you didn't have a date on that day. *Note: I was in an all-girls school. Maybe that will explain something.
I guess that kind of was lost in JC, at least in my old boring JC (ha!), and in NUS, Valentine's day became a commercialised place to sell flowers at exorbitant prices, and for both the girls and guys to show off: the guys by buying expensive flowers for their girlfriends, and the girls by holding their expensive flowers like umbrellas. You know how you normally raise your umbrella slightly above your shoulder to shelter you from the rain? Yup it certainly looked like that, except they were holding it with
both hands. And I guess it didn't help that some faculties *ahemartsahem* tried to heighten the atmosphere by sticking red and white heart-shaped balloons at the corridor, where most people will walk past.
Anyway to bring it back to the main topic, so pretty much after secondary school, the number of letters I received every year declined and it went down to almost nothing in NUS, because people have stopped writing letters altogether. I mean, SMSes and emails were much faster and electronic, which means you can save space and also save money. I think it's sad that we have somehow lost it because the tradition of letter writing is enjoyable for both the giver and the receiver. Or perhaps I should say that it's so rare nowadays to be receiving letters that when you actually get a handwritten letter from someone, it's almost like striking 4D. Hmm.. or maybe one of those consolation wins, a few tens kind.
11:34 am
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The last lap
Tuesday, June 13, 2006
It's the last lap... only a few days more but I'm feeling so so tired, from two consecutive semesters non-stop. Now that all the term papers are handed in and exams are only a few days away, I
should be studying furiously for the finals. Instead right now, all I wanna do is get a good night's sleep without worrying about grades. Napping feels good but only for approximately 15 minutes at most, after that, my guilty conscience sets in and then I feel so bad for sleeping so little.
Damn, whatever happened to all my motivation to study? I'm more drained now than I was last semester this time in the sem, except that now there's no reading week to recover from the essays and actually start studying for the exams. The most efficient students would have started studying a month before the exams or at least as soon as the term papers were all handed in. But I am not the most efficient student, so I normally need a break off studying for a little while before actual studying sets in.
Argh what is this? A stretching of my patience and a wearing off of my stamina? At times like this, I really wish I can be a camel, except that water is replaced by sleep, so I can store energy and stay awake for a few days (I only need that much), and then when I'm done, sleep for the next few days to restore all energy.
Only if you're free or if you love to irritate people: please call/message/msn me to bug me to study anytime before Friday.
9:25 pm
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Everything is going to be over soon..
Thursday, June 08, 2006
Just when I thought everything is going to be over soon, I discovered quite a few things:
- There's a section of the Science canteen which I never buy food from because of its inedible characteristic. That's why only recently did I find out that there is a mini-spinelli's franchise at the extreme end that sells cakes that look like they're fun to eat. Darn... did I just spend 5 weeks in Science only to discover this at the end?
- Because the semester is largely condensed, there is now no reading week to study for the exams, which roughly equates to almost no time i.e. a few days to mug for the finals. But strangely enough, my own timing has been condensed too. If time is proportional in that sense, a few days to mug is actually ok, which means I'm not panicking... yet. Because Daniel just asked me about exams and I said, oh it's only next week. Haha...
- This is strange but I think I will miss grumbling about lectures with Candy and our Science module teaching assistant, who we nicknamed 'himbo' because of his bimbo-like personality. I will also miss coming late for lectures with Aless, because we can never reach school on time. Blame it on the morning lectures, I say.
- Of course, the other part of me is just yearning for special term to be over so I can have my long-lusted-after holidays and of course alot more beauty sleep.
- Actually I will still be quite busy after special term because I have no choice but to pack my room... well actually I have to pack up and out everything because we're moving to our new permanent place. My mom's already nagging at me to start because I have about a week from the end of exams to the actual moving date. Hmm... isn't that enough I say?
5:08 pm
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Only because the picture looks good...
Friday, June 02, 2006
Got this quiz off Kim's blog and of course it is here now only because the picture looks good...
Which One of The 7 Main Arts Are You? (Beautiful Pictures -- FIXED!)
You are ~Story Writing~
Take this quiz!
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