} a proposition

zara and i have been on this topic a few times recently - that we dont seem to have a life ever since we started uni. although i acknowledge that im not a super-happening person and, in fact, im essentially quite dull... :/ i do think that just going to and from classes everyday, not being able to tell apart one week from another, just seems plain sad. it does not bode well if im aiming to have a non-9to5 life...

so im making myself a proposition. every week, i will post something interesting/exciting/fun that happens/i've seen/i've done, etc. although my standard of interesting/exciting may not be as high as everyone else..haha. if, at any week, i fail to do that, i will make myself do a 'punishment', and then THAT will be the interesting thing for the week. aha.

(anyone is free to suggest potential punishments or take the same challenge upon themselves if they also find that their life is currently a bit too mundane.) (but i doubt anyone will.)

so umm, this week? i spent the week working on the final lawr assignment, the dreaded statutory memo. i think i realised how much it was taking a toll on me when i woke up on saturday morning to see the worst dark rings under my eyes. but now its done, but the sucky thing is, i dont feel good about what i wrote, and yet i still have to defend it during the viva on thursday! argg!!

and on saturday night (well...last night) i went to the airport to send off my maid who's leaving (permanently? maybe) to get married. this was my fifth time this year going to the airport to send someone off. bah :(. would have been six if i had seen my sister off to shanghai, but i was still working on my assignment, and truth be told i wouldnt have known what to say anyway.

today was...a long day. first i woke up at 5.50 to reach denise's house by 6.40 since i was helping her with her photo shoot. ahem was there haha.. anyway, drove to bedok reservoir, went to all the locations planned... the shoot itself is quite hard to describe, suffice to say that it had a quite surreal feel, just imagine: 40 helium balloons, dresses without models (not models without dresses), a bike, picnic on the grass, cut flowers, clouds, and fishing. got sunburnt and all the awkward tanlines to prove it. den's photographer friend jeremy said i look like one of his guyfriends, wtf (i thought i was over that phase already! clearly not).

anyway, the shoot lasted till about 1, and as a result i was late for lunch... (also because i went to tampines mrt instead of bedok because i thought it would be nearer to city hall! argh! stupid mistake #1) den surrendered her sunflowers as an apology to anne marie and novita. haha.

tried shokudo, quite good food :) very filling though. went into the restaurant with only 2 bucks in my wallet...but! turned out anne marie owed me 12.50 and as a result i only had to pay 3.10 for everything. after digging out coins from wallet, coin purse, bag, pocket, etc... i was 2 cents short. :( yes, two cents. i duno where i got those 1-cent coins from either.

decided not to stay out to study because after the shoot i felt a strong urge to shower. (reason: dirt, sweat, possibly squashed ants in shoes.) as i was going to the bus stop i remember that jannah told me about an illustration exhibit at funan, so i went to check it out... it was mostly anime illustrations, there were some good ones but others were clearly just reproductions of the same cliche themes and images. :S that kind of bothers me, it seems to cheapen the art of real japanese manga artists.

well anyway. went to the bus stop after that, and this is where stupid mistake #2 comes in... i boarded the WRONG BUS. as in, i got on thinking it was my bus and then i conveniently went to sleep and when i opened my eyes midway, and saw 'happy deepavali' signs all around, something in my brain went 'i think something's wrong' and i turned around to see the bus number and i was on a completely wrong bus.

so after these few weeks of thinking about how boring my life is etc etc, karma brought me this instant adventure through the streets of little india/serangoon/farrer park area to look for a bus stop where i could take a bus home. and deepavali celebrations were still going on, and people were just coming out of the mosques, so in some corners/junctions it was really a whole fricking SEA of indians, which was really quite intimidating. maybe just because i knew i stuck out like a lone sore thumb in that huge crowd.

thankfully after a good bit of walking i spotted kk hospital from a distance, and made my way towards that direction. and so i finally, finally reached home.
phew.

so this week was...quite interesting. overall just tiring though. i duno how long i can keep up with this weekly thing actually, i hope at least until next week? :S haha.

the other bad thing about this weekly proposition thing is that my blog is going to sound like those this-is-what-i-did-today-incl-pictures-of-all-the-food-i-ate! blogs...argg. oh well. i like to document certain things down though, i think they'll bring some amusement when i read back in the future. haha. and i just admitted how self-absorbed i am, dammit. :/ hahaha.

ok, before i go - visit this site! NOTCOT. it is wonderfull.

2008-11-02, 11:03 p.m..
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