Tuesday, December 25, 2007

hark! the herald angels sing

Mellow Christmas this year... Spent Eve dining with 'rents and their visiting friends eating overpriced hawker food. When you're drinking teh peng renamed as teh ice and priced at $5.50 you know you're clearly in a restaurant catered for tourists.

Mum irritated me when she counted the number of job rejections I've received thus far versus the ongoing applications. I'm pretty happy with what I've got, but obviously the greedy part of me wants to be able to proceed into the next stage of the London job interview. My ex-boss said that I 'can try, but need a lucky break'. Considering how many unlucky breaks I've had so far in terms of career, I am happily presuming that the lucky one will come soon. Just to be on the safe side though, I spent half the time in church praying a personal prayer.

I am hoping the combined effort of luck and a blessing from above will do it.

And I've decided to give myself a Christmas present that doesn't inflict pain on my purse this year: a new blog!

Have 'moved' (sans the baggage of old posts) to wordpress.com.

You can find my blog in the here and now!

Thursday, December 20, 2007

grades schmades

So the final grades were released recently. When I first started this term, I kind of knew I was screwed. I wasn't paying that much attention to the subjects. Couldn't really follow the classes (either that or I refused to follow, browsing Facebook or online shops instead).

I knew and predicted at least 2 of the subjects this term would bring down my cumulative GPA.

As the 'View my grades' page on OASIS was loading I half-covered my face and prepared to wince... Those 2 subjects pulled up my GPA.

In fact, my overall performance is such that my cumulative GPA has increased! Wheee...

Lessons learned:
1. The best projects are the ones with the least meetings
2. Reading a lot of shit before exams pays off
3. I am not as dumb as I thought I was

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

this year, a merry christmas

As I sit,
what might have been
what has been
what was
what has become
spatter like flecks of blood against my window.

The sky has torn into two. It has
cracked, broken like a heart
someone out there is crying, the howls turning into
vortex, whirlwinds
blowing the tears my way
until my cheeks are wet and salty.

The aches of the world, I felt
confused with my broken soul
tossed aside, punctured like a wound
from the stare you didn't give.

It's new, this
paralysing pain.
It curdles my blood,
freezes my skin,
explodes in my head.

As I sit
I wish a sad, little, wistful, hopeful,
useless, pointless
christmas wish:
let me in.

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

i am failing my engrish test

I can't believe I typed 'invited' instead of 'invented' for the title of the previous blog entry. I must be dumber than I thought!

Sunday, December 09, 2007

okay, hands up, who invited inclined sit-ups?

Because if they are not the most excruciating human torture device ever, I don't know what is.

So the story goes that on this rainy Sunday afternoon a lazy-ass princess who was really bored decided that it may be productive to check out her gym. After all, the maintenance fee is paid every month, gouging a major portion of dad's Rupiah income. She didn't know it was actually hell discreetly packaged with bright lights, air freshener and a newly-installed HDTV.

She decided to try the dinky little machine shunned by humanity (all 4 of them) right in the middle of the room. As she got on to it, 25% of humanity looked at her with a mixture of disgust and pity. Disgust, because the lazy princess's shorts have ridden up to reveal way too much flesh. Pity, because... aww fuck it it's hard to do 3rd person narrative.

How on earth are you supposed to do like 100 over sit-ups at such a weird angle anyway? I'm sure it must be bad for your back. I did 35. Ish. By 20 I was breathless. By 27, my face was puce. By 32, I thought I would die. By 35, I died only to be resurrected by thoughts of caramel frap from Starbucks.

Meh. On the bright side, I didn't spend any money today. Thank the Lord for rainy weather.

On the days that it didn't rain, I have spent approximately......... a lot of money per day. On second thought purchasing a $40 Moleskin weekly planner may not have been the wisest decision. But it's so gorgeous, who could resist? And buying a gift from Tiffany's to welcome back one's boyfriend is just the proper thing to do. After all the long nights spent pouring over exam materials he needs to be greeted by something shiny.

Anyhoos... Saw the SATC movie trailer. My reaction was 'what the...?' because SJP just looks loopy in it. Like in her perfume ad. And I thought there were supposed to be 4 main stars? How come all the clips are of Carrie? The other 3 looked like flankers. That's so sad. I love Samantha's no-nonsense attitude to life. She's just as shopaholicky as Carrie but less whiny. But this is definitely a must-watch still for an all-girls outing. I miss girlie moments like those featured on the show. I want to grab a coffee and chill. Bitch. Gossip. Lament over clothes and shoes and boys.

Ahhh... nothing's better than a heart-to-heart with the girls.

Sunday, December 02, 2007

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