it's the second monday of the year and already i feel like it should be the last. the hours pass by quickly; and yet the days crawl by. last year, it was different: the hours were slow, but the days flew past at such an alarming pace that i actually began to worry if my entire life was going to flash past just like that, too. i'm not saying i don't enjoy life now, but i wouldn't mind if it went just a TEENY bit faster. you get what i mean.
and now, it's time for me to do my typical everyday babble i.e. moaning and groaning about the things that make my life a little less convenient. complaining doesn't help, but it makes me feel better. i deal with the problems after complaining about them, anyway. there's nothing wrong with this!
well, today started off with my thermos (is it thermo or thermos?) leaking and soaking the bottom of my plastic bag, which had to be thrown away. still, when i went downstairs for the "urgent post-orientation meeting" that peishan and dileen had called for, it turned out not to be a serious post-mortem meeting, but a thank-you-for-helping-with-orientation-we're-so-thankful-that-we've-decided-to-give-y'all-mochi's sort of meeting. :D after a couple of mochi's i went back upstairs and had a good laugh with stella and elisa until school started.
LA lecture was a good start to the day--SRQ sounds like lots of fun, if you don't mind having a splitting headache afterward because of all the thinking. "it is justifiable to torture a terrorist to save innocent lives", "it makes perfect sense to save ten lives rather than to save one"... i had a lot of fun thinking about these things. i think i might just post an argumentative piece on them someday here, if i have enough brainpower to write a good one.
it was physics after that, which was alright, but not particularly interesting, either (not a science student). after that was lunch, i.e. scholars' cup auditions. seven auditioners (?), five places. the first debate went alright, but the second was the absolute PITS. i totally screwed up. i hope the NYDC team will take me back in for MPP, because i get the feeling i didn't quite make it into the scholars' cup team. D: so long, 2009 dream. i felt so depressed when the bell rang. i remained depressed through chinese lesson, and the fact that i had not had anything to eat since 8 in the morning only made things worse. after chinese was math, and the prospect of having a probability quiz made me feel like putting my fist through something really hard and really solid. it was an easy quiz, though (too easy!), so that was alright. i simmered down a little and decided that i would pull through the rest of the day in a semiconscious mode. i was listening, but i wasn't really absorbing. i'm very good at pretending, though.
finally, it was time for japanese. 3 hours still doesn't seem like a feasible plan to me. a 15 minute break isn't going to give us enough energy for 3 hours! by the time it hit four, i felt like i'd been there for a day and a half. when the lesson was finally, finallyover, i felt as though i'd spent about a week there. that's how bad it is. i don't know how i will cope when the real pressure of my later commitments sets in.
well, i went home (mum fetched me) and had a shower and talked to linus for a while. i felt a lot better after that, and diner was great. now, i'm posting this on my brilliant new blog (which i figured how to use last night--i am so proud of myself! thanks for helping out shelly!). it's been a bittersweet day. i want to re-do the stupid audition, BUT i never want to talk about empires again. no empires. never.
later, i'm going to deal with geometric proofs (tuition homework. one good thing about math is that i'm way ahead of the syllabus...i think) and then i'm going to have a read through the quotes i compiled from all the IH articles yesterday. THEN i'll call it a day and get ready to face tuesday.
if mondays are blue, can i call tuesday green?
when tomorrow comes, i'll just have to deal with it, hour by freaking hour.
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PROFILE
this is where i let rip, so be warned that you might not like everything that pops up here. but i do, so deal with it. (: .
loves
this is so subject to change that i'm not even gonna bother listing them down.
hates
too many, and the list would be extremely volatile, anyway.
wants
a place in Oxford University (good luck, jennifer.)
for someone to know that he has a special place in her heart!
to survive in HCJC next year
not to have so many wants (but who's counting?)