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Saturday, April 29, 2006
listening to Other Side of The World by KT Tunstall

I am a sad octopus.

Apparently my no-sleep feat yesterday in the quest to prepare for 2102 exam was not as rewarding as i had hoped. Who am i kidding, in fact it not only gave me zero satisfaction because the paper was crap, but it so graciously bestowed me with a major, and i really mean major, HEADACHE too.

must be the caffeine overdose and lack-a-sleep. Oh God, my head feels like a bursting bubble.

Ok maybe my expectations are high, but then again so what's wrong with high expectations? I just cannot stand it. I dont believe i will be made to settle for a mere second lower.

no mood to blog abt this. ALL THIS CAFFEINE IS MAKING ME SO DARN UNWELL.

anw, i'm so happy, keiko found the 2 songs i was dying to listen to. *prances around maniacally* Cosy in the Rocket by Psapp and Other Side of the World by KT Tunstall are both playing on repeat mode in my iTunes. happy happy happy. :D

Good music really makes my day. I'm so easy to please.

I have totally zero mood to study for the last 2 papers... motivation can really be such a fleeting thing. Gimme back my A level days...




nobody knows where they might end up, nobody knows.
Felice @ 12:30 AM


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Thursday, April 27, 2006
mood awake
listening to About Fun by Psapp



I think Psapp has got a really funky way of making music. Check out the acoustic, so cool. kinda hated it at first but it grew on me.

I'm still looking for their Cosy in the Rocket song, Grey's Anatomy's soundtrack. If you've got it pretty please gimme gimme gimme!!!

It's 8am and i've got insomnia.. my mum is probably going to chain me to the bed and knock me unconscious if she knows how screwed up my body clock is.

so i've got the video-uploading bug from kl. another one. :D

Felice @ 7:52 AM


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Random, random...

yay i've figured out reactions of carbohydrates, glycoside formation and hemiacetal, acetal barang barang. Plus all those linkages shit too so i'm quite happy, even though i have yet to solve Maillard and Strecker degradation.

I have 2 goldfishes called Gopal and Goldie and i was just watching them eat while taking a short little brekkie. Then it dawned upon me that goldfishes are seriously stoooopid animals. Are they like blind? They had to open-close-open-close their mouths like ten thousand times just to get one tiny food particle into their gut.

can aim properly or not? haha.

ok break over.
Felice @ 4:05 AM


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mood hmpf
listening to Angel Eyes by Jim Brickman

only 1 paper down, and half of NUS are like halfway towards freedom already.
Intro to Human Nutrition was not too bad, even though i had a tough time memorising vitamin deficiencies and toxicities because everything seemed to result in diarrhoea or nausea or hair loss or dysfunctional organs here and there and also, everything seemed to have something to do with cardiovascular diseases or diabetes or hypertension. Or atherosclerosis.

I'm taking a five in the midst of studying for Chemistry of Food Components, 'cos i just feel like immortalising this particular thought on my blog:


I feel like going up to my lecturer and strangling her until she turns blue.


or purple.


that would be quite a pretty colour to match her blazer.


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people get violent tendencies when they are stressed, y'know.



donc, excusez-moi.
Felice @ 1:59 AM


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Sunday, April 23, 2006
mood foaming at the mouth / information overload

And so they say, blogging is a catharsis.

ok to spare you from checking dictionary.com,

catharsis :
1. A purifying or figurative cleansing of the emotions.
2. A technique used to relieve tension and anxiety by bringing repressed feelings and fears to consciousness.

so the fact that blogging is therapeutic is the reason that during exams, instead of blogging less and getting our asses down to studying, we blog more (like a certain person by the initial of KL, whose identity i shall grant anonymity. still got time to change layout somemore!)

haha. :)

stressed! if my head is a computer that will be so cool. then all i need to do is stare at all my notes real hard, click CTRL + A (on imaginary buttons) and then save all the damn information. My brain will be worth 129809542845 GB.

argh.
Felice @ 3:14 AM


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Friday, April 21, 2006
I am a fidgety bug.

So restless, argh! I seriously cannot wait to get my exams over and done with. Haven't quite finished studying everything but i feel strangely prepared for it, probably partly because i cannot cannot wait for it to be finito.

So i had my birthday right smack in the middle of reading week, and the sickening mix of a somewhat festive + muggerish mood was just totally WRONG. 'cos at the end of it all, i had zero mood to study and an even more zeroish mood for bday. Felt so sad! and there you have everybody else in the world throwing a hooha of a party just to celebrate being 21.

Rudy came over to stay to keep me company and he had paper the next day too (+1 sad factor). as usual, he was up to something. so funny la, how he was always up to something but always ended up partially divulging his plans or choosing blur partners of crime who ended up partially ruining his plans. haha. With the alliance of keiko the drama queen who kancheong-ly came to my room, it started with

"Felicia, i think there is something wrong with the gas, u know. i want to cook noodles but it won't light up!"

and with her dishevelled hair and half-crumpled face i would have believed her if she had told me osama was in our kitchen dismantling the stove and cooking curry.

So i also "kancheong-ly" went to the kitchen before out of the corner of my eye i saw a heap of slippers hidden beside the fridge but before my brains processed the piece of information, i was overcome with the shock of having julian snapping away at me and keiko, cailin, syehli, shyuan, huiqing and of course the berry-berry-sneaky rudy holding a cake and singing happy birthday.

so funny la! i already half-suspected it when rudy claimed to have stomachache and went to toilet two times, carrying handphone somemore. and then the second time he went he took so long i actually thought he got abducted by UFO before julian accidentally came into my room and then said he will go get rudy. huh???

but i was very touched. :)

Rudy got me a chocolate cake from Rive Gauche and it was the chocolate cake, man. It was the nicest chocolate cake i've ever eaten arghhh i want some more!!! and Royce chocolate omg so nice!!!!

thanks, darling. for making my reading week much more bearable. :)

and thanks keerling, for the SIX "happy birthdays" scattered throughout the day! haha!

photos not with me, will upload next time.

Eversince i came to NUS, i've been feeling like i miss out a lot on life. so many things to do, so little time. Hence leaving practically zilch amount of extra time to do things that I like. Do you feel that way too?
Felice @ 8:11 PM


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Tuesday, April 18, 2006
mood chic
listening to Your Love O Lord by Third Day

I'm a Porsche 911!



You have a classic style, but you're up-to-date with the latest technology. You're ambitious, competitive, and you love to win. Performance, precision, and prestige - you're one of the elite,and you know it.


Take the Which Sports Car Are You? quiz.



I'm a Porsche and i'm cool, yo! :D

I just did ONE systematic equilibrium question which i managed to solve all by myself and i'm happy so i'm taking my well-deserved break now. :)

a tad too many, actually. oh help me Lord...


Felice @ 3:52 PM


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Monday, April 17, 2006
mood emo
listening to Iris by Googoo Dolls

mumble jumble abracadrabra.

PMS doesn't normally affect me any day but today i'm just gonna make it the black sheep and blame it for making me the emotional wreck that i am today.

Rudy came over today supposedly to study and we were just bumming around and talking when i told him, "when you go to australia, you wont have anyone to help you do models anymore, when you're tired you cannot just come by hall and sleep on my bed, i wont be able to da bao hall dinner for you, and i wont be able to help you clear your studio and lug all your things to keep in hall..."

I actually said those words in a very matter-of-fact and practical way without considering any emotional aspects of it but before i knew it, the next minute i was just bawling my eyes out and crying and crying and the tears just refused to stop.
Like what i said before, i really wasn't scared about what is going to happen to me in his absence, or that he could possibly get himself head over heels in love with a dumb blonde over at down under, or that our love will just die along with our hustle bustle as our lives no longer run parallel in this bittersweet place called NUS. Afterall i always believe that God holds our future in His hands, and that all is secure and well.
Truth be told, i also didn't know what exactly was i crying about, perhaps just a sense of helplessness, at certain uncertainties that taint our relationship (but then again, which one isn't?), and i suppose i was just sad, that things are going to be different.

The past a year and a half had been so eventful, we have spent so much of our time together that he is as much a part of me as i think i am to him. A few days ago, when jasmine said how she thinks X and Y wont last because X is going to work soon and Y is going overseas and those are completely different realms as compared to being fellow undergraduates, i told her, that in a relationship, it really isn't about what kind of hurdles one throws at two people, or what kind of shit-hole determines the doom of their love. It really is just about laying the foundation right and starting on good grounds. Just like what the bible says, if your foundation of belief and conviction is a mere passe, even your spiritual life will just crumble in the face of persecution and adversity. Likewise, in a relationship, if you are just a player, you will crumble as easily as you started. with all due respect, just my two cents' worth.

But we've laid so much foundation, shared dreams and visions and each other's lives, and the future seems like it's just there. and yet time is not enough. Come july, things are going to be so different, and it is starting to get to me. next time i gotta clean my fish tank all by myself, and if ginger gets sick again he won't be here to be the loving one to bring her to the vet and feed her antibiotics and clean her tummy with a cottonwool. I wont have anybody buying me goldfishes out of the blue, fussing over my lunch and dinner, or nag about how i never take my prune extract and don't take care of my health, knowing that i've got low blood pressure. Noone will be asking whether i am back in hall safely or what time i am sleeping, and i bet my phone bills are going to decrease dramatically once he is gone (i should switch plans altogether. might as well.)

I'm feeling so damn emotional i am actually laughing at myself. i cried at every sentence he spoke, dunno cry for what also. I did not, for the life of me, see all this coming and then the emo wave just swept me off my feet like a tsunami. right smack before exams some more, thank you very much. my tear ducts were working OT and i had so much tears that i started making patterns on his shirt with it (i've got a picture to prove it, the patterns actually made quite an abstract art). and now my face is as swollen as a puffer fish. want to go toilet also dont dare to, scared people will scream ghost when they see me.

shit, man. i'm such a wreck today i cannot study. rudy is sleeping on my bed now and i am supposed to be mugging til breakfast and be really really productive. But when he wakes up and eventually read this he's gonna shake his head and wallop me because instead of reading my stupid post-harvest notes what am i doing now? blogging. in the blind of the night.

so for the past 8 hours, i accomplished only "pre-cooling methods for post-harvest processing".

yay!



note: this is a crappy post. will edit when in a right state of mind.
Felice @ 5:07 AM


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Friday, April 14, 2006
mood super duper nua
listening to Free Loop by Daniel Powter

As you wish, jellyfish.

'Tis something rudy gave me for V day and if you've seen how it looks sitting on my table incessantly bobbing its head from left to right you'll half understand how i'm feeling now.

So nua!!!! Feel so freaking lazy i just want to melt into my bed and wake up only after exams.

Anyway woke up this afternoon to a paper bag hanging on my door and inside was an early bday present and a very nice card with some handwritten notes inside.

Rudy was checking me out and asking me how did i feel, and i think it was kinda mixed. It hit very close to my heart because it was simply a bad case of words being very inconsistent with one's actions. two days ago (or was it one? shit.. all these weird sleeping hours are getting to me), jasmine, rudy and i were having a short chat before they concluded that i could really be so mean.

I guess it gets to me, you know, the things that you do. I honestly believe that i have quite a high threshold for the crap people throws at me, but once you bust it dude, i'm sorry. You don't make a U-turn that easy.

That's it la, lets not blow it out of proportion like how we've grown so good at it.

Anyway, the archi yr 3's had their final submission yesterday afternoon and so rudy has been staying in school doing panels and models since forever. shuttling between hall and studio and hall and studio and i see him so often it almost feels like we're staying together. But my point is, there would be many times when i walk him to the back/front gate when he had to leave for studio/whereever, and i always found myself nagging "dont come back too late ya" or "remember dont take too long" and ...

OMG.

did i just sound like a naggy wife????


eeks, NOOOO!!


Now that exams are just peeking round the corner, the need to mug has never become more obligatory. yet, i seem to have some really sever attention deficiency. cannot focus sia.. my mind has been drifting to post-exams activities, before exams even start.

I haven't had a social life for quite a while now. my life seems to be confined to the seclusion and comfort (not) of school, and all the grounds it encompasses. hall, studio, and a little here and there. It feels a little melancholic, that so much of my time had been spent at sde. rudy is going to aussie soon already, and things are gonna feel so sian in school. no more late night visits, no more midnight oil-burning in studio, no more suppers, no more pre-submission frenzy, no more post-submission mini celebrations, no more looting! (private joke), no more one thousand one other things..

:(

then there will be 2 more years in nus all on my own, coming back to an equally sian hall-life.

at least i still got keiko the super hamster.

hahahahaha.



monotonous school life is so not for me, man.
Felice @ 2:32 PM


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Tuesday, April 11, 2006
listening to Just the Way You Are by Billy Joel

This is so odd.. I'm sleeping much better now that exams are 'round the corner. Everything is pleasantly odd, because i am feeling strangely calm about it, even though i still get sent into a frantic frenzy when i sometimes look at the shitty past year questions.

I surrender everything completely into Your hands, because I know that in these areas where i always seem to screw up when i try to do it on my own, You can turn it around and do it in a much better way. I know that a defeated and mediocre life is not Your plan for me. So i will just let You take charge and stand upon Your promise, because You said that You care for me and that's all that i need. =)


Taking a short break from mugging and i was just pondering over certain occurences in my life. I was reading ickleoriental's journo recounting her wedding and how she had all these chummy buddies sharing her joy with her and all. She looked so happy and i bet she was, what with all her closest friends sharing the most beautiful day in her life as a woman. And so, without sounding far-fetched, i very practically and realistically noted, that if i were to get married today, the only close friend i would have the honour of sharing my joy with me would probably be gideon.

Honestly, i really dont understand the friends that i have encountered all these years. Of course, the very cause of these reminisce and bewilderment stems from the fact that S (which stands for Somebody) very recently got attached (that's what i would assume if he's been bunking in her room so very often, with the only thing i dont understand being why did she have to resort to all the slipper-hiding and styrofoam-board covering phenomena).

I mean, you want to lie and hide also do it properly wat.
If not you only appear dumber for being such a lousy liar and consequently having people find out that you lie, thus making you the overall loser.

The more i think about us, the more justified i feel i am, for being so upset. I lost count of the number of times i played aunt agony to her, spent countless hours listening to her heartbreak stories and entertaining her mood swings, stayed awake all night while she cried about X, and basically just availing myself every single time that she needed someone to listen to her whine. rain or shine. I would just put down whatever i was doing and turn to her with not just a listening ear but TWO. even if it meant waking up in the blind darkness of 5am and then listening to her woes for 2 hours in my groggy state, completely forgoing my sleep. and i didn't even complain. I'm sorry if i sound like a proud and self-righteous pig, simply because i honestly feel that i tried the very best i could to be a good friend.

Yet, i am sad to look back and realise that i was always alone during my darkest times. Not just S but some other people. You come to me when you are down and out and then conveniently pretend i don't exist when everything is nice and dandy.

What, am i just a counselling service you come to because a psychiatrist cost too much?
Either i have some serious character flaws or these people are just some really selfish bitches.
Or maybe they forgot that I am actually human and thought i was some cyclops with ultra-high-tolerance microchips planted in my brain which God sent down to earth with an imaginary crap-bag to stomach all their nonsense.

To all this, rudy helpfully suggested that maybe it's just because i look a little unapproachable.

Do i have "I eat small children and I like to torture your pets" tattooed to my forehead? Or do i just seem like an emotionless freak who doesn't get bugged by problems? Oh, i have hormones and i have my period every month too, in case you're wondering. I take exams too just like everyone else, and i am not a cap 5-er who has nothing to worry about in school.

The more i talk about it the angrier i feel. Is it so difficult to share your lives and reciprocate with the same amount of sincerity and generosity that others have shown you? Fine then, i wish you live happily ever after in your little secret cave in Afghanistan, and do not bother to send wedding invitations or come crying (again) when anything goes wrong.

Ok, i couldn't quite bear to mean those ill intentions.

I just do not understand. period.

On to a completely random and somewhat less frustrating note,
my kinky prawns are laying eggs like crazy and i have too many prawns in my tank for my own good. instant noodle accompaniment, anyone? :D
Felice @ 5:51 AM


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Sunday, April 09, 2006
mood stumped


Today after cg, in my nauseous and woozy state i dropped by clementi fishshop with rudy cos i was in the mood for some spanking new goldies. Nothing fancy caught my eyes. all the nice fishies were all diseased-looking. Then we walked further into the shop and saw three miserable little goldfishes swimming with this mean looking pomfret (it looked like one i swear), you know those tiny goldfishes going for $1.50 for a pack of 16, used to feed arowanas and other ugly, beastly, monstrous giant fishes.

One of the little goldfishes was so nice and a perfect shade of red. So i thought i wanted to be a fish-samaritan and save those 3 from being served for the pomfret's dinner later at 6 o'clock.

We asked the smelly uncle if he could sell us those fishes and he just waved a no and shooed us away from further bargaining. I mean i could have willingly paid a dollar for 3 pieces of fish-feeds which originally cost:

(3/16) x $1.50 = $0.28125

So by right he could make a profit of:

(1-0.28125)/0.28125 x 100% = 255%

just by selling 3 wasted goldfishes to me. so what is his freaking problem?

So anal, these fish-sellers.



=(
Felice @ 5:06 PM


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Saturday, April 01, 2006

The Five Love Languages

My primary love language is probably
Quality Time
with a secondary love language being
Physical Touch.

Complete set of results

Quality Time: 11
Physical Touch: 8
Words of Affirmation: 6
Receiving Gifts: 3
Acts of Service: 2


Information

Unhappiness in relationships, according to Dr. Gary Chapman, is often due to the fact that we speak different love languages. Sometimes we don't understand our partner's requirements, or even our own. We all have a "love tank" that needs to be filled in order for us to express love to others, but there are different means by which our tank can be filled, and there are different ways that we can express love to others.

Take the quiz

:)
Felice @ 2:21 AM


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