Wednesday, September 27, 2006
terribly deprived
Lately, I've been walking around school with this large overcast cloud over my head that never seems to past. So you've thought you managed to escape the rat race; breakaway free from all the rote learning and mugging, but damn, that is merely a fallacy. And so you reluctantly get sucked in, be overwhelmed, and bury yourself under the academic workload. All over again.Shopping at Woodbury Commons the other day was crazy. I blew about 300USD on winter clothings *sheepish look*, AND I still need to get another non-marshymallowey winter jacket because the current one makes me look like a brown michelin man. Oh well, at least I got myself a pair of decent Aldo boots and some ugly but functional Timberland snow boots. Still really gotta do somemore Fall/Winter shopping...shouldn't let this gloomy weather get the better out of me.
In another's weeks time, I will be officially done with all my papers and prelims (: Then, its New York, New York for a nice recharge. Or rather, New York City, New York City since I'm actually already in NY, albeit a very ulu part of New York.
For now, I just have to pray hard that my I 1) dont bomb anymore prelims 2)finish up my essay tonight and 3)stop having pimples sprouting all over my face.
Dinnertime!
ilovetotwirl at 3:25 PM
Friday, September 22, 2006
reality check
Today is Friday.Countdown to 1st prelims : 4 days
No. of days in the weekend : 2 days
No. of days spent in Cornell over the weekend : 1 day
Homework to do:
- Macroeconomics Assignment : 6 Questions
- Microeconomics Assignment : 1 Question
- Kenneth Hudson Assignment : 4 Questions
- Essay on the "Westward Expansion" : 1 Question; 3 pages long
- Psych 101 Readings : 3 Chapters
- Psych 101 Workbook : 5 Chapters
- Japanese Pre-Lesson Assignment
Revision to do:
- Microeconomics (Demand, Supply, Elasticities & Consumer Preferences)
- Psych 101 (David Meyers Text)
Clothes/Stuff to buy:
- Rockport Boots
- Miss Sixty Jeans
- Juicy Couture Sweatshirt
- North Face Hoodie
[urgh hell i just wasted 1 minute typing the above irrelevant list]
Now, if I survive this weekend and the next, I'm officially demi-god.
=/ :x =S
*back to mugging
ilovetotwirl at 3:54 PM
Thursday, September 21, 2006
mad rush
5 minutes to my next class and i suddenly feel like unleashing some crap here; its 9.30pm now and i'm going won't be back from latin dance till 11.00pm.i can forsee that tonight will be a terrible all-nighter AGAIN. please don't let the fun pictures distract you because i have tons of homework to do everyday and am practically getting buried by all my macro/micro economics models, history readings on the west expansion, psychological hoax and japanese grammar quiz >_<
now, when was the last time i slept before 12? its strange how i used to watch american tv shows (america's top model, desperate housewives, house, project runway) and i haven't watched a SINGLE tv show since i left singapore on 12th august. (Okay, desperate housewives is showing on ABC 8pm Saturdays, mental note to self to keep sat nights free.)
Tomorrow, I take a deep breath before I plunge into yet another crazy weekend balancing extreme lifestyles between mugging and playing. Going to head down to Woodbury Commons to do winter clothes (and summer fashion leftover) shopping this Saturday. Its the mecca of all factory outlets in the East -- Bebe, Kate Spade, Aldo, Nine West, Levi's, Juicy Couture =D I can feel the andrenaline rush as I spell out my favourite brands, but i cant imagine the shitload amounts of work that i have to complete (plus the prelim that I have to study hard for) to make up for that 6 hour long journey to and fro from Rochester. ARGH!
Plus, I still want to paint pottery and watch the football match against Yale @ Schelloekopf on Saturday evening.
I need 48 Hours *ROARSSSS* and lots of sleep too . ARGH.
And now I have 1 minute to run to the Gym before my poor partner has to pair up with some other fat girl for dance. Poo.
ilovetotwirl at 6:30 PM
Sunday, September 17, 2006
a loong wrap up (part 2)
Okay, I've dumped my clothes in the dryer so now I can continue with my blogging... haha.
It was really strange because while all the boys were lining up to get their takopachis and toriyakis, I was really into this goldfish catching this. I remember watching this in a Japanese drama so I was dying to try it out. (: haha.
Anyways I am super shagged now because I just got back from a 4 hour kayaking trip. My arms are really sore now from all the rowing today. Its really one of the best things that I've done so far in Cornell and the fact that its free makes it even better. So the faculty residence-in-family in Balch was really nice and drove 5 of us down to Cayuga lake for an entire afternoon of workout. And we headed down to Ithaca falls after the kayaking. But frankly speaking, I'm kinda sick of all these water falls and gorges. Seeing them on the way to school everyday always give me an insecure feeling about falling off the bridges.
So I've been receiving lotsa nice snail mails of late and birthday greetings. All these get displayed proudly on my wall and win tons of bragging rights to my hallmates. If you wish to receive the above privileges, kindly please write in to :5272 Balch Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY
14853-1401
USA
And so this is the end of a very long entry. Back to macroeconomics (: ciao~
ilovetotwirl at 6:23 PM
a loong wrap up (part 1)
I know everyone's been missing me. Haha. I'm missing everyone too. But homework is piling up at an incredulous rate... every night, I average a bedtime of 2am. On a terrible day (that is when I have an essay to rush) I will go to bed at 3.30am. Like what my Psych 1o1 prof said, I'm turning into a sleep deprived, zombiefied teenager.
In about 1.5 weeks time, I'm going to have my first bout of prelims aka common test. Things here move so fast, we dont even have the time to let our brains breathe and absorb knowledge and then we are already getting tested. I have to study super duper hard now, considering that I'm probably a B-/B student here =/ I'm so used to all the major killings in Rv and Hc when we could lose 30 marks and still be of A standard. And now, I perpetually have to aim for FULL MARKS for all my tests to be of a decent standard. How nice.
Aside from the usual academic rant, I was having a pretty rough past 2 weeks, with my stupid ligament problem at my hip recurring. I was basically a cripple, limping around school from place to place; and when school is so humongous for all the wrong reasons, it really isn't that fun. On the day of physiotherapy, I was getting zapped by all the spasms in my muscles; it was so darn blardy painful that I almost gave up walking to classes as well as to the Physical Therapy area. I wanted to sit down and cry. Haha. But of course there are good outcomes to bad situations; 2 guys offered to piggy back me. AND my mum has offered an air ticket back home to Singapore in winter break come Dec. Haha. So maybe I won't have to spend the blistering cold in Ithaca after all.
It was freaking cold over the last week and me and my hallmates felt that summer was officially over. At one point of time, the temperatures dropped to 8 degrees celsius at night and the daytime temperates hovered around 12 degree celsius. BUT the worst thing is that everything here is in farenheit so I cant even tell whether its going to hot and cold by looking at the weather forecast.
The last week was such a blast. I accomplished so much that I'm so proud of myself... finished up my homework, ate mooncakes, went for a jap fair, and did kayaking (: And I found a girl who does ballet so one day we just ended up dancing in my room. The people in my hall are really cool (except for the fact that they bounce on my bed when I like it sterile) , so I got together with them for a MOON CAKE PARTY. Haha. And we invited the latinos and blacks to join along too with our little Asian gathering and ended up taking alot of spastic photos.
I suddenly realize that I have laundry in downstairs waiting for me to throw them into the dryer so I really have to wrap this up soon. Somehow, because I know people are actually reading my blog, I don't feel like writing about touchy or sensitive issues. Oh well, I promise to write about better stuff after my prelims. I'm heading to NYC after the exams (: so things will look up by then!
A photolog of activities over the past 2 weeks:
Me and my hallmates decided that summer was all too short for us to waste it, and that homework would always come, so we hecked it for an afternoon and headed down to the gorges for a nice soak. freezing cold as usual
ilovetotwirl at 5:52 PM
Sunday, September 03, 2006
home sweet home
Somehow, somewhat...I have the urge to pen down my thoughts before they dissipate. Maybe its the dumb essay that I have to rush out again. Did I ever mention that I have a chao-enthu writing instructor and I am in this freakin chim Philosphy/History class on "Collecting Toys"? I can't believed how whacked I am to be tricked into balloting for the class. As simple as the title sounds, its actually the total opposite --- I have to read long texts by uninspirational old fogies who quote Greek (literally) figurines like Apostle and Descartes in their duality theorem whereby Individuals and Societies are separate entities on its own, HENCE people COLLECT as a form of inward expression and relation to their surroundings. Now, does that abstract idea even make sense at all?Its been 3 weeks since I've settled in nicely into Cornell. School's so taxing we can't just slip right back into our orientation mode as and when we like. No more talks about going down to the lakes & gorges to swim (or actually gorge jump), no more bringing back guys to Balch (haha)...everyone's (including me!) so involved in school work now, and its almost back to life in JC where we have to work hard and try to play hard. =/
On a lighter note, I turned 19 two days ago. It was a nice birthday girl day..we had good Japanese food at Miyake's which costs a bomb in College students terms and we popped by parties after parties after dinner. It was kinda embarassing cos we had this "Freshman wanting to crash a party look" all over our faces as we bumped around from place to place along campus. 'Twas was a fun evening to keep our minds off from the books for awhile. (:
Fraternity parties are definintely so shady --- you won't be able to imagine the amount of freeflow booze, grinding, and thumping going on. Its so animalistic I dont know whether to feel gross-ed out or just laugh off their behaviour. Guess that's part and parcel of college life. Monday to Thurs we are full-time geeks and when the weekends finally come, all hell breaks lose and its welcome-to-our-not-so- secret-world-of-alternative-lifestyles . You won't believe it when you see the smart kiddo from class morphing into a totally wasted crap at the pavements. Arh... but such details should be spared lest you guys associate me with such forms of shadyness. Haha. ;D
But after typing all these, I almost forgot that what I really wanted to say that I really miss home. I miss eating nice Sunday tim sum lunches with my entire family. Having to practise my violin together with my younger brother, bugging and be bugged by my elder brother. Having my mum to give me a nice back massage whenever I am stressed out. And Daddy buying my favourite food from his workplace.
As much as I get to contact everyone by Skype or MSN almost everyday, (some people even find it incredulous when I drink water over the webcam thousands of miles away), the feeling isnt quite right or the same as being back in my little home. I can't believe that I would be actually confessing to such a mushy wushy feeling; but at the same time, I'm wishing that everyone I love would be around me like how it has always been.
It's this naggy feeling, a little twinge of sadness, warmth, and longing for that has been lost for quite awhile ever since I left home. And of course, rediscovered which actually leads to this blog entry.
For now, I've gotta rush my essay so that tomorrow won't be a Mad-rush Monday for me.
Till then,
xoxo
p.s Shall be posting my birthday pictures in awhile!
ilovetotwirl at 6:25 PM
