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top ten reasons i'm screwed for/because of exams
1) shopped too damn much. note to self: lie in wait for ibanking transactions mail. DO NOT LET MUM SEE. (also be ready to intercept packages)
2) i discovered at 4 am this morning that judicial review is NOT subsumed under delegated legislation. so basically for that entire topic i'd NEVER done anything or had notes etc. damn freaking smart
3) i slept at 5.23am. hurhur. for a 9am paper. with temp-taking at 8am. (thank goodness for dads who rouse themselves to drive you to school). this was one of like three papers in my entire life that i'd gone for with so little sleep. the other two were lit s and legal theory, but somehow i highly doubt that i;m going to get results quite as felicitous for this paper--
4) why? because i enjoyed it. when i enjoy a paper i don't do well for it. but i'd almost prefer to take the enjoyment over a better grade, because i feel more intellectually stimulated :D
5) i kept eyeing a preternaturally cheerful TLA. she dones't seem to be affected at all by the whole aware thing. hurhur
6) and i was quite disarmed cos she smiled at me. she's got a very nice smile. you know actually i've had a softspot for her ever since she quoted shylock at one of our lectures. freedom of religion? and then i read the today interview, and i was like wow-- i can actually empathise with her and her position-- she's not actually as confident and stern and brash as she appears. i;m glad i stood up for her over twitter. hehe.
7) i spent my time hunting for tennessee williams' the glass menagerie instead of studying, so that i could read it immediately after the public law paper.
8) my hand cramped up. and my nails tried to amputate my thumb :( should have cut my nails!!
9) my mum told me about my "surprise" party, and so i was busy brainstorming for things to do and people to invite instead of brainstorming for reform ideas and ways to uphold our constitutional rights.
i'm out of top tens. will add if i think of more reasons hurhur.
you know something, though. i'm actually going to sort of miss the exam period. stressful and crappy as it was the perpetual-online status meant i got to talk to my darling creature x everyday, and made stolen moments away all the sweeter. but central to the exam period-- what i will miss most-- is waking up to breakfast made by my dad, ranging from freshly-toasted squares of wholemeal bread he'd specially bought the night before, with vitagen my mum buys specially for me because she knows i think yakult is too sweet. and frankly the suspect filling my dad puts in (he's a maverick in cooking, really-- he pours hot water on packaged instant noodles and then puts ice on it when he wants to eat it) just makes it quirkier and more fun to eat-- thousand island dressing with peanut butter anyone?
i totally DON'T deserve parents like this, man. they even intentionally refuse to eat the vegetarian dumplings that they always buy especially for my sis and i because they know we like them. :(
THINGS TO DO:
1) get thee to a library, double quick!
2) buy a summer dress!
3) deal with uppsala lit module (:( i want to do 18th century!! sobs)
4) time to play with clothes! yay kat von d/ed hardy/good ole livejournal t-shirt surgery
5) SENTOSA
6) RLH. whooooops. :D xf!!! damnit why are you not here
7) DANCE!
8) learn to cook (ehhh this is like my goal for every summer. wth la. haha)
9) buy presents!
10) plan my darn party.
yes-- the stupid party. in the middle of my exams my wonderful mum dropped this bombshell on me-- a surprise 21st bday party that is now no longer a surprise because she couldn't figure out who to invite and didn't know how to contact jia ning and abby for help and didn';t know if they were in sg anyway. EURGH. and i would have started inviting people the moment my exams ended, or before, but i have no clue what goes on at a 21st and i think everyone will be very bored and NOW GUESS WHAT. apparently the chalet my parents booked may be used for quarantine for SWINE FLU. murphy loves me. -_____-
mum's all for turning the chalet into a 70s dancehall and tailor-making agogo pants incidentally.
i'm kind of quite happy fretting about stupid things like this, but omg TIME constraints! and all i want to do is read.
it was so wonderful sitting in the sunshine waiting for my dad to come pick me up, glass menagerie in hand and marvelling at tennessee williams' sheer artistry. in lily lee's words, if he wasn't dead AND gay to boot i'd have thrown myself at him.
or maybe not. AHHHH. the bad thing about exams is that you seek any sort of diversion imaginable, and that includes inadvertently reading old msges in old phones that should have been thrown away, and claiming old blogs. CRINGE. CRINGE. CRINGE. major CRINGE. oh my gosh hahaha CRIIIIINNNNGGGEEEEEEE. i think i can happily and assuredly say that my secondary school years were definitely the best of times and the worst of times. i have reclaimed four-- FIVE, if you count my diaryland account that was never lost anyway (and is safely locked now-- PLEASE tell me it wasn't public :(:(:(:()-- separate blogs from those years and discovered another one that i cannot access; and i know of three more that have gone defunct because the server is dead. yes, i know, that's a lot of blogs, but quantity does not connote quality or even anything more than one entry per blog for some. of the three defunct blogs the one that rankles most is the loss of my bloggercrab-- three years' worth of writing that finally veered away from using terms like "sweetheart" and profligate "....." incredibly characteristic of, say, a lovesick puppy. no wonder i hate using ellipses now. i want that blog back, damnit.
alright glass menagerie.
"fire escape": a name of accidental poetic truth, for all of these huge buildings are always burning with the slow and implacable fires of human desperation
p.s. how could i forget. RUN! passion run is on 24th omg; sundown 31st (at least i'm not running for that one); shape 19th july! lily lee i date you bedok reservoir! and jin i date you ecp blade and nette i date you cycle PCN! :):):)
SUMMER. <3