my dive stuff is finally here!!! was ecstatic to see the little slip of paper informing me that i had TWO parcels to collect from the office. when the office lady handed me the larger box, i realized i have indeed been suffering from nitrogen withdrawal - i was SO glad just to LOOK at my gear. it's like waving just the tiniest amt of heroin in front of an addict who's been on rehab for a mere 5 wks. that's how long it's been since my last dive. 46 days, to be exact. i took out my wetsuit, booties n fins and... sand fell out. Phuket sand!!! Kata beach sand! i'd been in such a hurry before leaving s'pore, having returned from phuket only the night before, i dint get to wash my gear properly! god, i miss the phuket days. nonstop diving, all day, everyday! i even miss lugging oxygen tanks for customers. as for sg, i have to admit not missing it at all. the ppl, sure, but not the place. does tt make me unfeeling? don't pretend you're sorry (p.s. yy2: which song?)
today was pretty productive :) got to catch up wif farah, yiiwen, pn, wj n char. free internet in the lib! :-D glad my msn's working again. even tho it's onli web messenger n i cant do loads of stuff... but on the telephone line i am anyone i am anything i wanna be on the telephone line i am any height i am any age i wanna be i can be a caped crusader or space invader & u wldn't know the difference
Hobart is now onli 2 hrs (instead of 3) ahead of SG time! daylight savings ended at 2am on sunday. the past 2 days i've woken up at ard 6am cos i'm still tuned to daylight savings time. also, the sun at 6am is still the daylight savings-7am sun, which means it gets super bright n my rm faces the east... currently bumming ard in the library doing some schwk & using free internet :-D the wkend was uneventful, as usual. i did watch edward scissorhands, tho, which was cool. johnny depp & winona ryder were so young then. mondays n tuesdays r now my fave days of the wk (not counting wkends, of course), cos i have onli 2hrs of sch on those days, whereas i have sch frm 9-6 on wed-fri. dissecting earthworms this friday for zoology prac, which shld be funner than peering at tapeworm sections.
first chem prac today. so far it's the most enjoyable prac i've had. no microscope, no cells, no peering crosseyed at some blob that i have no clue how to draw, no painfully trying to make pencil markings even remotely resembling a biological organism. harmony day ytd was pretty successful. made profits far exceeding our expectations. nvr knew frozen prata n fishballs cld sell so well! a couple of ang mohs were so happy with the food, they came back for second/thirds n paid us more than the food cost. tmr is the last day of the wk! zoology quiz tmr. cant wait for easter hols. one wk! first camp at lake st clair, then probably some canoeing stuff. weather these few days: hot hot hot. today's sky was beautiful. blue n totally cloudless. 2 nights ago i went outside to look at the sky & it was INCREDIBLE. stars everywhere. the sky was so clear i cld see the milky way. even the tiniest stars cld be spotted. unfortunately, i onli know orion. the view on the way to uni, from the top of the hill, nvr ceases to amaze me ta between the lines of fear and blame you began to wonder why you came where did i go wrong i lost a friend somewhere along in the bitterness
heading for lake st clair tmr. staying there 1 nite to check out the site for easter camp. it's gonna be freezing... on the subj of weather, it's realli weird here. several days ago it was like 11 degrees. ytd, 30 degrees. today, 20 - the perfect temp so far. last nite a couple of us went abt soaping door knobs & leaving 'love notes' frm innocent ppl. [reminds me abt the story my dad told me abt pouring cologne into his uni dorm air vent & stinking the entire place up] fire alarm went off at aldridge (tt's the building i stay in) ytd after dinner. fire truck came with sirens n all! false alarm (wonder who set it off)? someone's at the door
my MSN's giving me problems, so i've gotten a skype acct. add me if u wanna chat! my contact name's shrugnsay_whatever i'll most likely be online at abt 7pm s'pore time...
long weekend :-D labour day hol on monday nth much to do tho ytd (fri), returned after 3hr animal bio prac at 6pm. walked back frm uni cos dint wanna wait for bus. lugging heavy zoology bk uphill. had dinner, watched (& played some, terribly) table tennis, headed to common rm to play pool/cards/watch tv.at 10+, decided to watch the exorcist (more comic than scary). ended at 12am. played more pool, talked alot of rubbish. 3+am. trooped to one of the guys' rms to scare him awake (having gone to bed halfway thru the movie). scratched door, called rm & hung up. finally got him awake. everyone sat ard in the rm & watched videos on laptop. some ppl began to fall asleep. decided to take early morning walk in the bitter cold in attempt to stay awake till breakfast at 8am. half-walked, half-jogged all the way to the gate. found it too cold. returned to not-much-warmer-indoors. must be the weather or sth, cos i dint feel at all like sleeping. the others did, tho, so off they went to catch several hrs of sleep. i headed back to my rm, watched movies on the network. watched sunrise at 6am. went to dining hall the moment it opened. read newspapers. had breakfast. played pool again. in common rm till lunchtime. more watching of table tennis. back to rm to try to get some work done. 5pm went for a walk to fitzroy gdns. found the incredible long slide tt is SO much fun :D shld try it when it's rainy, will be much faster & more exhilarating. went back for dinner. listened to piano music. v nice. have been awake for 40 solid hrs. onli starting to feel sleepy. hmm (just to rub it in) signing off, #490755 cheers
i'm now 490755, DM YY :-D quick fwd me my card (with my horrible havent-bathed-et-the-end-of-a-long-day-in-saltwater-and-sun photo)
week 1 ended. week 2 starts tmr. been crashing medicine lectures. pathology lects so far r quite cool n much more interesting than biology of plants. now in exco of s'pore students' society. no idea wat my role is haha also joined scuba diving club n canoe club :-D shld keep me occupied 1 wk of easter hols in 5-11 april. some ppl r going to visit frens/family in various parts of australia. i'm itching to take tt chance to do some diving up at the GBR. suffering from serious nitrogen withdrawal here... unfortunately, there's the matter of $$$$$$$$ CONGRATS everyone on their excellent A level results (according to andrea n everyone i spoke to over the phone on friday) |
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