so cute

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8223717.stm

i had a dream again last night. just had to write about this one. i dreamt that i was from the future dating elvis presley in the ’50s! i even commented that i was a digicam sorta girl when he whipped out his retro film camera. omg ha ha

so strange i wish it was partly true and then again i’m glad its not. but he was soooo very gentlemanly and nice. lol

my imagination never fails to amaze me

aughh ive been so very unproductive today. like at the back of my mind i know i have to do my work but my mind just refuses to cooperate.

anyway not to say im being unthankful or whatever but right now i’m really regretting the decision i made 2 years ago… the decision between submitting an exchange form and a transfer form and i chose the former which i am sort of regretting now. but only cus at the moment i’m wishing i had the chance to go back to uiuc for a second year. otherwise my choice makes utter sense in that i finish school sooner now.

choices, choices

A new day begins in Chambana

The quad at 6am! QUAD DAY! People are just starting to set things up. Wish I was there.

IMISS UIUC

ps to my friends still at the UofI. if youre reading this, please whenever youre on the quad drop me a text and then go stand in the middle and wave at the camera so I can zoom in on you

been at this paper for the whole afternoon and realised that i was beginning to..or rather, had been suffering from a massive headache all day. it made me wonder what was wrong with me and if my migraines were back. then i decided that maybe i hadnt had enough OXYGEN due to planting my fat arse at my desk 24/7 the past week

so i unfolded my camping chair (almost dropping my precious sb tumbler 5 floors down! phew) and sat on the balcony reading siegler and alibali and jane eyre. i think the fresh air indeed did do me some good. i feeeeeeel refreshed

had a fairly amusing dream last night. dreamt that I owned a mini cooper secretly stashed away somewhere… and that HONG LI(!!) haha borrowed it to drive (i was present of course) and at the same time was testing out jeremy clarkson’s theory that running the exhaust through plants would reduce the amount of carbon dioxide produced. except that hongli used fruits too. lol. very amusing…

ohh. still cant make up my mind if i should spend my spring break camping in the outback or not. i would totally go except that 1) my workload esp due right after break and 2) the ridiculous cost of th trip are holding me back.

anyway. most of my friends are already back in uiuc!! those pokes are so lucky! my only consolation is that im graduating soon. well so anyway..back to sociolinguistics and its theories of speech communities now.yeayea

i was just thinking to myself today as i zoned out in class, once again…

these days i NEVER wake up for a 9am class, rarely make it for a 10am class, barely crawl into an 11am class, and it’s a good day if i’m punctual for a class at noon. i often wonder to myself now how i ever made it through all those years of compulsory education where classes began at 730 or 8am, and school assemblies at 7- means waking up at 6am. seems like a completely impossible notion at the moment… i’m impressed with my past young self

anyway. tracked out to bondi today to conduct an ‘experiment’ on a child. for my devt lab on false beliefs. eeeee so cute! last year i also did one on conservation or something. whooohoo smart kid got everything right which either proved the theory right or wrong. hee

then since i was already at bondi i decided to buy milk and bread to eat. and whilst i did that i sHOPPED. mygosh. so yea ends up i bought some shoes cus i didn’t really bring shoes with me to aussie anyway. (i was beginning to worry that my one pair of shoes would break and i should have to go barefoot) so i was walking past steve madden and saw that they had a sale, so i bought 2 pairs of flats haha

to me this is disgusting, i feel like a shopaholic though i know this ’shopping’ i did ranks on a pathetic scale against the REAL shoppers ie. my mama

yikes reading my socioling text now anyway. interesting chap- codes. yay!

british bulldogs huh. well we played that a few times during hockey practice so it was utterly safe, seeing as to how we were fully padded from head to toe. anyway yayy 1 down, 7 to go. imma start on the next paper early so that i dont have to suffer as much again.

finally went grocery shopping today since i had time! been starving at home the past few days cus i ran out of food, and no time to go out to eat. probably lost a bit of weight the unhealthy way. anyway so i resume my weekend today. ends on wed and starts on thurs yea

1am and still going strong. starting to get distracted though but i gotta snap right outta if otherwise i am never gonna get this paper written. anyway goodbye distinction average.. cya

back with not a vengeance

ive decided that sometimes its good to have somewhere to be able to let loose a little, and yet i dont want to litter my journal with minute details that i wouldnt be very interested in in the future. so here i’ll write.

i’m back in sydney. after a year’s sojourn in the awesome us of a. everything’s so different here i cannot even think of where to start listing them. so i wont.

anyway last night i was particularly sad because as i laid in bed trying to sleep i kept craving the greasy grilled cheese on sourdoughs that the uiuc dining halls used to serve up, usually on fridays. ive tried a few times to make it myself, but it is always either 1) never as greasy or 2) it gets burnt or worse still 3) the cheese doesn’t melt. those awesome grilled cheeses were always taken forgranted of until i realised that making unhealthy, greasy and fattening grilled cheeses wasnt actually such an easy task as it looked.

so now im thousands of miles away, literally on the other side of the earth, not to mention in the opposite hemisphere too, far far away from the grilled cheese i crave so badly for.

on a side note, now i also understand how the american expats in singapore felt when they found out, to their utmost horror, that the starbucks i worked at had gotten rid of the panini toaster.

okay paper, i really need to write you now lest i undergo an all nighter in week 3 of school. stupid school. november please come soon.