Yesterday was Thanksgiving. I joined my friend's family for a Thanksgiving celebration. I met Melissa's family. They're really nice. Their house was beautiful too. I had a lot of fun. We made and ate stuffed turkey, potato rice and asparagus with delicious cranberry sauce and turkey sauce! =) After that, we had dessert - pumpkin pie and apple pie with ice-cream. They went really well together. I had a great day~

Hi. I am back..with Part II of the Urinator! It is yet another week back in hall, and a closer inspection of the hall toilet seats yielded a new discovery . . .

The Urinator has a buddy! Let me introduce . . . the ToiletBowlStepper. *round of applause please*

the ToiletBowlStepper, as the name suggests, has dirty feet and an uncanny hobby of stepping on what people sit on. Over the weekend, the ToiletBowlStepper made her rounds in Hall and left dirt on the toilet seats. As I hurriedly entered a toilet cubicle, I saw (without spectacles, may I add) grey stuff on the toilet seat. Small flecks of grey matter all over the toilet seat. *BIG SIGH* I was too late. the ToiletBowlStepper had struck, leaving the poor hall residents to deal with a dirt-specked butt had they unwittingly plonked down on her traces!

Not to forget, what happened to the ToiletBowlStepper's good buddy? Has the Urinator done her artwork again? Yesterday, I felt a glimmer of hope. There was no sprayed display of yellow drops. To my disappointment, today . . . I saw those all-too-familiar yellow spots of urine all over the toilet seat.

Alas! the Urinator still cannot aim properly into a toilet bowl. 'Tis a sad phenomenon.

There is sweet music here that softer falls
Than petals from blown roses on the grass . . .
Music that genlier on the spirit lies,
Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes . . .
- Alfred Lord Tennyon, "Song of the Lotus-Eaters"

Today was a good day.

Thank you chor yen. Having you around helps me to concentrate better, amazingly. People have said that relationships are distracting . . . but that doesn't apply to all situations. A good relationship is one that helps you to concentrate, to achieve your dreams while going through all hardships with a smile. =)

The next two weeks are going to be arduous. I wondered, if I will go through it stressed, get headaches and be very tired? As cliched as it sounds, I decided to go through it, with a SMILE! Life is short. And why wait for the happiness, when it's right before you? Happiness is a choice.

I should smile more often. The past 2 months of school have been taxing, and I nearly lost my smile too many times and gave in to the bouts of sadness and stress. Why make life difficult for myself? I will smile and laugh again, starting yesterday.

Now what am I talking about?

Everyone urinates. I do. You do. It's no big deal.

But it is a big deal... if your pastime is to decorate the toilet seat with spots of yellow urine. All around the toilet seat. It is not only 1 drop at one corner. It is a spray of drops all over the toilet seat!

Whenever I return to hall after each weekend, I discover that... one of the three toilet seats will be the chosen "art piece" of the URINATOR. Since the yellow-dot pattern is approximately the same each time, the culprit(s) is the same person (or personS). After each attack of the Urinator, the girls' toilet effectively has 2 toilet cubicles to use. Oh my. Such is the power of the Urinator.

Let's see if the Urinator decides to strike again this weekend. I wonder who's that inconsiderate soul who hasn't been toilet-trained. Isn't toilet-training something that even 3-year-olds know?

Having dinner alone needs getting used to. All my life, I never ate alone. Not during breakfast, nor recess, nor lunch, nor dinner. I usually eat with friends and have a good chat or laugh after that. Lately, it's been breakfast facing the wall, lunch with friends (thankfully), most weekday dinners facing the wall or dinners with acquaintances that I have no affinity with and once in a while.

My dinner buddies have either moved out of hall, or gone on exchange. My friends don't stay in hall or they don't study in the same university. Dinners alone gives you space to think and ponder. Sometimes those thoughts head in a less-than-happy direction, sometimes the bursts of laughter from the other side of the residence just reminds me of my happy days of the past. Being lonely in a crowd, it's an experience.

Do I really want to lead this kind of life?

Speaking of this reminds me of my ex-workplace. It was another classic case of friends moving in to brighten up the day and subsequently leaving and taking away the laughter with them. And hollowness ensues.

I prayed for friends. And God gave me nightmares. I wonder if my prayers reached my gods. I can just imagine them standing there and laughing at me. Haix. Am I going slightly mad?

Perhaps I am saying all this because I'm exhausted. School gets really tiring in the 2nd part of the semester. I kind of look forward to the week before exams, cos that's when the projects end..and there's only 1 academic focus - revision. =) I hope things will get better.

we spend life looking for happiness.

but when happiness lies right before your very eyes, is it possible not to be able to reach out and take it?

sometimes, i see people being happy, then i wonder if i can ever smile like that again.

maybe its the solitude in hall that i can' take. oh wells.

whichever it is, i'll overcome it! =)

i'm in a very odd situation.

school hasn't started, but i'm feeling so stressed already. =(

URECA - research project - poster due...very very soon, along with exchange program applications, hall activities, family activities, social activities... oh man. i'm stressed out.

there are so many deadlines!!!


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sighs. choryen told me i have bad stress management. i totally agree. when i'm bombarded with so many things at once..my mind goes blank and i don't know (seriously don't know) what to do. =(


i dont' wanna take part in hall activity... sighs.

happy new year to all!

2009's over, and 2010's here.

2009 was a good year. I've learnt more about swimming, cheerleading, camps. I thoroughly enjoyed and will definitely miss the morpheus 4-people dinners in the 1st half of 2009, and morpheus/mira 4-people meet ups in the 2nd half of 2009. There was also my 1st year anniversary with dear Chor Yen, along with other good times spent. I also managed to get my driver's license. Friends wise, I'm really glad to have seen my Wushu mates, and made new friends in hall and in nys. It's been a great year, with my only regret being unable to meet up with priya and ambi. not to worry, those are coming up soon in 2010.

i wonder what this new year is going to bring. i hope it'll be a fruitful one. =) I wish for a lot of things. For my loved ones and my friends to stay healthy and happy, wherever they are. For my research project to become less disastrous. For my grades to...remain where they are. And for everyone to live life well.

=)

hello.

for the past week, i heard about the existence of huge bananas..

but only today, did i see for myself, how huge they are!!

take a look:

the largest bananas on Earth!!

i just had my 2nd last exam. it's an open-book examination.

and it was terrible.

not because i didn't know to do. I KNEW HOW TO DO IT!!! but...i still did it wrongly.
because.....i chose the wrong method and was careless.
because....i didnt' know it was in the past-year paper, but others did.
because..others could do it. but i couldn't.
because.

its bad enough that i found the paper difficult.
but to make mistakes where others don't, that's akin to throwing your grades down the drain. Especially in a bell-curve dominated system.

There's nothing I can do now, but get over this.

I once promised myself not to post up any depressing posts. or happy lotus will become a sad lotus.

oh wells.

let's balance it off with something more lighthearted.

enjoy!