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Wednesday, May 2, 2007
The last day is the Swweet-est
Today was a long day. But I immensely enjoyed myself. The build-up over the past few days, being caught up in the thick of exams and all, culminated to this day! Yeah, it indeed seemed to end with a big Bang metaphorically. Right now, as I’m typing this, I’m like chilling in the moment, plugged in to Jason Mraz music in headphones attached to my laptop, with the first song playing, No Stopping Us (it’s as expected, an AMAZING chill-y song. He freely rolls his tongue and scats in the song). Lalalala life is indeed wonderful right now.
So I woke up at 5am this morning. The earliest in a long time. I was determined not to treat my last 2 papers today so lightly. I had really mugged the whole day yesterday, how ironic, it was May 1, Labour Day till midnight. And this morning, I mugged some more, for another 2 more hours. Till 7.15am. I had an ominous feeling that Italy would come up in the exam question, together with Germany. However, it was too late to learn anything more, I only just had time to look through all the notes I had done in the past 2 days, in 2 hours. Nothing more, nothing less. I just had to make do with some quick recalling on Italy, after all, I was just tested on it in class 2, 3 weeks ago. I did not want my brain to be overloaded with new information and fail on me at the last minute. :):)
Before I left the house, I hung around the toilet for a while, trying to pass motion. Cuz I haven’t for the past 2 days, been drinking Vitagen, trying to cure my ever-frequent diarrhoea. Finally, one plop! And I was good to go at 8am. Lolz, with my mum nagging behind my back. I’m already old enough to manage my time man! When I reached the venue just a little before 9am, I saw that the students were already seated. I had arrived just at the right moment. Thank God. I did the paper somewhat smoothly. It was really the best I could. Then soon after, I also did another paper at 1pm. Now that was really stressful! I thought it would be easy-peasy, as my teacher had told us we could easily pass the paper merely by reading our lecture notes and it was an ‘open-book’ exam. So how difficult could it be? Well, the questions were tricky! And we had to answer each questions in 5 lines, in 60 words. And that is not easy at all! None of my answers kept to the 5-lines limit. Haha! I hope it’s ok. It should be ok, cuz I really can’t see how I can answer the questions any more concisely and comprehensively than I did. Furthermore, most of the questions referred to our newspaper articles handouts and this made me really kancheong, cuz that, with my notes, made my small little exam table really messy and I felt constrained by the small space. I was also racing against time, cuz like I said, we had to answer the questions concisely and to do that, we had to take time to carefully think of our answers. My heart was literally palpitating rapidly because of my anxiety of the time limit. My body was at the height of its flight-or-fight mode man! Anyhows, I managed to answer all the questions satisfactorily (to me at least). I was mega relieved after the paper was over, my 2nd-semester exams were well and truly over!
I think I was in a daze. I really felt like my situation was surreal, bizarre, unreal. Because I have 3 months of holidays in front of me baby! Haha! I was still so disoriented to nearly-accidentally enter the Gents! I was busy texting my friend and just walked to the nearest door at the corner where the toilets were located. The toilets are situated in a corner and such that the toilets for the 2 genders are alternately located on each floor. So the Gents was on the floor of the main entrance of the library. I was looking at my phone, texting, and just about to push the door when it was opened on the other side and I found myself face-to-face with a…guy! Our gazes locked for quite a few seconds. It was so funny! I was doubly confused cuz I was trying to rationalize that he could be a girl cuz his look and hair was androgynous, but I saw that his dressing was metrosexual as I turned my gaze from his face to his clothes and then, to…the…picture on the door. And then I turned back to look at him. I just froze on the spot. I didn’t know why I was so confused at that time. Then the guy snapped out of his shock and pointed his finger towards the ceiling, signaling that the Ladies was above. I mumbled ‘sorry’ and quickly scrrramed! Man, I hope I don’t see him again. Or don’t see him in a long time, which is likely, as the holidays are heeere! I am such a dork. Can’t blame me, as I’m going through the effects of Post-Exams.
Later on went to JP and met up with Esther, one of my module mates. Hi Esther! Ate at KFC and hear it first here, from me, the Cheese Melts is a big disappointment. It’s crap. It’s dry and paltry, totally un-filling and somewhat of a turn-off. But the ambience of KFC at JP is nice! They had glowing red-lanterns hanging from the ceiling, comfy booth seats, mosaic walls at the wash-up area and the sink was like that of a hotel, big and bowl-like. And to top it off, my friend thought that they were playing the KFC theme song or something. No, KFC doesn’t have any cheesy theme song, (their commercials are cheesy enough but not their Melts), it was just KT Tunstall’s Suddenly I See song, which my friend heard as “KFC…singsing…KFC” when it was yes, “suddenly I see”. Then we went around looking for a prezzie for a certain someone but I couldn’t find anything suitable and besides, I didn’t trust my own sole judgement of a ‘suitable prezzie’ for that certain someone. I bought 3 badges though. It’s so funny. I had intended to buy only 2, each costs $2 and the seller told me I could buy one more for $5 in total. Naturally, I chose the last badge which had a bible verse printed on it! This was the first time I saw badges with bible verses on them. I didn’t chose any of those badges because the designs were very simple. One verse really attracted me, but I thought $2 was not worth the design so I decided to purchase the 2 others first: a very nice (Rolling) Stones tongue badge and the other badge was a rainbow-coloured one with the words ‘Keep in Touch’. So when the person told me of the ‘discount’, 3 for $5, I chose that badge with the bible verse “My soul shall be joyful in the Lord, it shall rejoice in His salvation. -Psalm 25:9”. This verse especially caught my eye because I’m reading some books on spirituality right now, which talks about our body, soul and spirit :) More to come on those. These books are going to set the tone for my next few blog entries. There was also one very funny badge which me and my friend couldn’t help laughing over, this line was printed on it “The Only Bush I like is my Own.” Go figure the joke yourself. :P
My poor friend kept sneezing today, I hope she gets well soon! We all have plenty of time to recuperate and get much-needed rest now that our exams are over!
I went home and watched American Idol, they covered Bon Jovi songs! I always thought he was a good-looking and a lively rock singer! I think that whiny Justin-timberlake poser(what’s-his-name) and Jordin will be out tomorrow night. I fully support the 17-yr old Jordin and even think she will clinch the AI title this season but her performance was the poorest tonight and since 2 contestants have to go this week, I predict their departure. I can only cross my fingers and hope America will make the right choice! I’m not a supporter of that bald guy and I want him to be out but he really did give the 2nd best performance tonight. The best performance was the shortie, darn, her name eludes me, though it’s at the tip of my tongue, the last performer. Lakisha may be out too. She is really like Jennifer Hudson in so many ways. I don’t know, AI results are always mostly unpredictable. I watched an old Avril Lavigne concert DVD after that. Man, she can really sing and though she don’t really have much showmanship, she still looks cool, standing on stage and letting her voice do the talking. Besides, most male rock stars out there also stand around a lot. The only difference is that they have guitars. I’ve liked Avril from day 1 and like her all the more now. She is not a girly girl, not pretentious, which I really like. :) go watch the DVD and you’ll know what I mean!
Well, it’s already 2.10am here, time to sign off. Good night all, what an eventful and enjoyable day it was!
PS: I wanna say a big thank-you to Brands Essence Chicken. I’m quite sure you’re the reason why I did not fall sick this time! May we have many more good times to come.
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