hiccups:
dinners which don't manifest, boyfriends who get angry because they can't find my house, extreme sleepiness, the star of the show falling asleep watching nightmare before xmas and not skyping us (POK XF POK), misinterpretation of the "cotton on requirement", flat-out-refusals to take pictures despite my emotional blackmail whines of "i'm going to be away for SIX MONTHS", complaints of too-tight shirts ("omg von can you lend me another shirt" "yeah if you wear that one i think you will cut off blood flow") and CERTAIN people showing up at like 12.20am.
pluses, stars, honours: everything. else. actually even the things above. :)
my dog tried to eat everyone except for abigail; despite the death threats everyone seemed to agree that he looked less-- well-- hangdog, and rather more well-fed if not yet obese. somnabulism reared its inexorable head as early as eleven and ning insisted on reading harry potter and the deathly hallows instead of talking to us. we hunkered down in front of stardust, which is apparently ni's favourite show although in ning's words "she only likes it because the star glows"; i fell asleep in the middle of it, a fact rendered rather painfully obvious because up to that point i'd been answering random questions about what was going on ("yeah we figured out that you fell asleep because i was hoping you'd answer my questions since you seemed to be the only one who knew what was happening"). it's true that claire danes' acting was almost painfully wooden in that movie, but michelle pfeiffer was gorgeous. the movie's happy ending was incongruous; i found the book's bittersweet loneliness far more to my taste, but then that explains why i've never stayed awake through the movie and why i've read the book thrice.
strangely once the lights went off, all notions of sleep fled out the window as well. i have no idea what time we slept, but my sister said she woke at 3am and heard us giggling (giggling?!) through 2 closed doors eeeps. darkness triggers the WEIRDEST things, ranging from the discovery that apparently despite not looking it (...) i am "shockingly conservative", abby has ceased to be merely a "joke" and is now an encyclopedia of jokes, ning is damn scared of the dark, ni should not drink alcohol without xf's genes and a whole host of other matters: shoes and ships and sealing wax and cabbages and kings. oh and that a certain physics teacher SHOULD NOT quit her day job for poetry, because she came up with this rhyme:
electricity we say hi
don't you ever ever sigh
R is V over I
V equals to R times I
are you ready to shock your mind?
that might have been the source of the 3am laughter, although if my mind serves me correctly we were laughing too hard to make a sound.
<3<3<3
i am going to have to squeeze six months' worth of memories in 1.5 weeks-- now 8 days, actually-- to tide me over, with a warmth i'll not forget, for the coldest of the winter months. and people, please remember me too-- for six months there won't be this crazy girl around you asking what you think of her black specs (ning: "mmms... it's got the same feel as your old ones") only to flip them over to show you that yes, she painted the front of the frames black because the old lime-green clashed with her red hair extensions.
p.s. hope everyone had a good national day! apparently douglas was on sg idol. did not see lily lee or eisen on tv though :(
too much pizza to sleep, shall read elizabeth hand instead/play with new toy that cannot shoot people and which is subject to painfully fatal e18 lens errors (whatever the heck that is darn it maybe i should just stick with my since-sec4-and-has-taken-3000-pics canon instead). note to self however that vows of fealty to sarpinos are made for a reason-- sheer yumminess. sarpinos>>>>>>> pizza hut please!