I feel so sleepy. Anyway, some quick hits:

- It was discovered that my computer's 'death' was the 'death' of its motherboard.
- My sister's laptop's motherboard crashed last night, too.
- That's a lot of motherboard issues.
- I managed to retrieve my files, so that means that I get all my music and videos and documents back. BIG SIGH OF RELIEF, PEOPLE.
- Columbia hasn't sent me the acknowledgement e-mail yet. About 8 days to go, max. If no e-mail is sent to me by Dec 2, you will hear silent crying.
- No words can describe how relieved I am that I have my files back.

The discovery of Motherboard!FailGate, means that I will have a laptop sooner than I expected. Woohoo!

Notice: This blog post was originally typed on Tuesday, 17 November. :)

So I watched Hammer Down, the CSI NY part of the Trilogy Crossover (I don't know what else to call it, LOL). It wasn't too shabby. Quite interesting, in fact. I still love Sid. And Hawkes. And Lindsay. Squee. Also, Melina Kanakeredes/Stella Bonasera and Lisa Edelstein/Lisa Cuddy seem to have their "Whose Shirt Has A Lower Front" or "Who's Showing More Cleavage Today" competition back. Cuddy won the previous week (The one where the kid's a liar. Although that's very vague. Everybody lies). Loved Hawkes' Hippocratic Oath vs Crooked Docter scene. 'Twas awesome.

Trivial note: They shouldn't have changed Mac's sunglasses. The rounder frames are not as nice on Gary Sinise as the previous one.

I also watched Julie & Julia, that movie starring Meryl Streep and Amy Adams. With Stanley Tucci. AND A VERY RANDOM APPEARANCE BY VANESSA FERLITO. I squeed internally. I did like Aiden. Sucks that she got killed. I would've wanted to see her reactions to Danny and Lindsay getting married. OH WELL. Anyhow, that movie was quite funny. Interesting. Whatever.

Anyway, HOUSE, HOUSE HOUSE HOUSE HOUSE HOUSE HOUSe HOUse HOuse House house.... LET ME TRY TO SUM UP MY THOUGHTS ON THE LATEST EPISODE ("Teamwork")... I'm not going to be scaling back on the spoilers, so if you want to avoid them, AVOID THEM.

Now, surface check. I couldn't care less about the medicine any more. Although I'm always fascinated by Hygeine Paranoia in developed countries. My cousin is an example. From what I remember, she'd always have all these antibacterial wipes and blah blah blah for her son. Thank goodness it wasn't so bad that she didn't let him go out and play and get scratched or whatever. Anyway, the case aside, onto the Larger Part of the Plot, THE BACKSTORY. LOL. It should be called frontstory.

Now, about Cameron. Why is House so surprised that Cameron forgave Chase? Cameron, after all, did commit euthanasia herself (assuming that she was the one who helped the doctor in the old Season 3 episode of Informed Consent). Not to forgive Chase would be rather hypocritical, right? But that was also the weird thing with Cameron's tirade - House corrupted Chase? Cameron, as I mentioned before, have commited euthanasia before, WAAAAY before Chase did. Also, it was kind of her who wanted to kill Dibala in the first place in The Tyrant. Of course, Chase was an idiot to get that idea planted in his head. I don't care if "The moderates are gaining a foothold" or whatever Chase said to rationalize at the end of The Tyrant - he knew as well as I do that that was a very weak, lame excuse. You don't go from a killer dictator to a rosy future for a country just because the moderates are taking a foothold. For all we care, the moderates are just as bad as Dibala. But I digress - that is another issue on its own.

And another thing I read in a forum which got me a little confused is how people are saying Chase is getting a backbone. YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME. If anything, he's losing his backbone. He was always the one who would do anything to please House. And he's staying back. Sheesh.

Also, Lucas is creepy.

I had more to type, but I couldn't remember, so... more eventually. :)

Seriously. You have people applying for FINANCIAL AID, and yet Collegeboard still asks for a USD9 processing fee and another USD16 to send the stuff to a university of your choice. Electronically. Heh.

Anyhow, Financial Aid details have been sent. I hope I get accepted. Because all these sensitive information should not be sent to anyone.

I want to type something fancy and eloquent and interesting. Alas, my brain is not thinking of anything poetic to say. One day, it will again.

Kinda losing inspiration for my art, too. Sigh.

My sister's back, by the way.

Oh, and I still haven't come up with a holiday project. I'm NOT going to spend an entire month coming up with an itinerary for my Singapore trip which will only be for 4 days/3 nights. Sheesh.

So every evening when I go downstairs, there's volleyball on TV. And it ALWAYS happens to be the Japanese team. First the Japanese beats the Koreans, then they lose to the Brazilians and then they beat the Thai (Didn't watch this one).

OH, and Tall Girl With Dyed Hair's name IS Kurihara. Megumi Kurihara. And then her teammate Inouie or whoever looks like her.

The Koreans lost to the Italians the other day, I think.

I wish Team Cuba were playing. The last time I watched Cuba play was in the Athens Olympics.

All I remember of Team USA is that they have a Chinese woman coach (Ironically rare for a women's team sport) and Logan Tom and Haneef-Park (Woman was 2 metres tall. YOU DO NOT FORGET PEOPLE AS TALL AS THAT).

Bahahaha I was just kidding about all the volleyball.

Marat Safin's retired. I sadface the ATP. Now I don't have Safin to cheer for. Good thing Justine's returning. Woohoo!

FREE, SO FREE. SO SO FREE.

So now I have a list of things I want to do, and things I NEED to do.

List of Things I Need To Do:
1. Clear my cupboard : My clothes are in a very messy pile
2. Clear my book cupboard : And make sure all my textbooks are in a nice, ready-to-sell pile
3. Clear my table :  Because it has books I no longer need
4. Bring Yenn Ling out to celebrate her birthday. :D
5. Get the computer fixed
6. Download whatever episodes of House and CSI NY I've missed
7. Write fic
8. Draw pictures
9. Sort out financial aid stuff (Well, more like Dad has to do it, not me)
10. Plan out Singapore Trip With The Classmates. :D

List of Things I Want to Do:
1. Go out.
2. Play squash
3. Exercise
4. Be a bum

ON ANOTHER SIDE OF MATTERS, my results will be out in about a month - I do not want to think about what happens then. University acceptance/rejection/deferment also happens in about a month, I really really really hope I'm accepted into any one of the US universities I applied for. The chances are really slim, but one never knows. And a slim chance does not equate to no chance at all. Funny, considering I don't regard myself as very optimistic most of the time.

11 months have gone by real quickly, huh? I'll be posting about college soon.

In about 12 hours I will be doing Chemistry in C27.

THE LAST TIME I WILL EVER TAKE CHEMISTRY (POSSIBLY).
I totally forgot it was Dad's birthday until about 5pm. I'm such a horrible daughter.
Econs today was okay. The essays... not quite. And I never like discussing papers after, so... no discussing what enormous fail it could be, okay? I'm praying hard that I get A's for ESL, Bio and Econs and I'm happy with B's for Math and Chem. Sigh.

I was watching volleyball with Dad for a while just now - Japan vs Korea. The Japanese libero was FREAKING GOOD. I think her name was Sano something. And the girl who kept spiking - the about-190cm girl with dyed hair (It wasn't flourescent, just light), she was good too. Kurihara or something.

The South Korean girl (The Korean version of Kurihara, assuming Kurihara is her name) was really tall, too. But a lot less consistent than Kurihara. The Koreans kept flubbing their serves. =.=

Just so you know, no, I'm not SUDDENLY OBSESSED!11! with volleyball, I just happened to watch it and thought it was a good match.

Back to Chemistry.

I'm getting antsy. I have yet to receive an e-mail from Columbia saying that they got my applications. Georgetown already sent theirs to me, so...

Anyhoo, going to overdose myself with Chemistry, Biology and Economics. Some of the things I need to do after my exams would be clear my table and cupboards. I shall sell off all my textbooks next year, and just send all my papers to be recycled.

Off to study some more. Cannot wait for 3pm on Wednesday to come. I will finally be free.

Just a quick update before I collapse into bed and just sleep.

Georgetown sent me the verification e-mail. GASP. So nervous. So very very nervous.

Also, Math was... okay? It wasn't super duper hard, but it's definitely not easy. There were very few questions in which I felt sure I was right. In fact, I think it's close to none. I managed to fill in whatever I could, though (ergo - I only answered what I thought I could. Like I left that horizontal tangent coordinate question because.... NO HOPE LAH HELLO)

Evidence that I run purely on adrenaline sometimes:
- I slept at 3.30am.
- Woke up at 5.50/6.00am
- Paper was 7am - 10am
- I didn't take a nap this afternoon
- I went to play basketball with Yenn Ling and Li Za.

It was awesome, by the way. And random. I was in the library with my classmate Emily when Yih Shan called and said that she was having lunch with Yenn Ling and Li Za and Irene. Then Yenn Ling and Li Za came to my house and studied. And Li Za left her homework in my house, LOL.

I wanted to blog about this the other day, but it slipped to the back of my mind, and after reading some articles, remembered about it.

Anyhow, I was watching Wozniacki play Jankovic the other day, and I realized something. Normally I notice it, but not as much since I'm too busy watching Justine play, but now that Justine's NOT playing (yet), it's very obvious how the Woz and Jankovic both don't take a lot of small steps. Watching Justine when she plays tennis is interesting - the footwork is immaculate.

I must be boring you already. Anyway, I can't wait for Justine's return, now. No matter how sucky it may be, or how far her form is from '07. IT DOESN'T MATTER. Because Remember 2004. Remember 2005. Mruahahhaa. Girl comes back from injuries by winning. Hrm.

Doing lots of Math. So nervous about tomorrow. O_O

It pays to follow the director of House on Twitter.



HAHAHA. Love the lyrics - "Dr Wilson, you're his buddy, did he cut on and get slutty with Dr Cuddy" LOL. I don't ship Huddy, but Min Shen may like it. xD Oh, and "Perhaps he saw Dr Hadley in Maxim on Page 10". Win. House crew are milking "Hottest woman in the 'world'" for all it's worth. I mean, they already had a meta comment on the show itself.

Poor Taub gets no love.

This video is for Min Shen, whose character map is so presh. Oh, and the 'damage' I was talking about was mostly death-related. Look at it this way:

1. House: Um... soldier's kid, daddy issues, this guy's damaged lah.
2. Wilson: Aaaaaaaamber. And the divorced wives
3. Cuddy: Mysterious past, hmmm. She's like Stella! Leading ladies, but we barely know anything about them!
4. Chase: Daddy issues, patients he's killed, whether accidentally or not
5. Cameron: Poor Dead Husband. Ex-husband, to be precise.
6. Foreman: He must have had a screwed-up childhood to be breaking in and being involved in thievery. I mean, look at Parker!
7. Thirteen: Most tragic lah. They literally throw the kitchen sink at her.
8. Taub: Wife issues.
9. Kutner: He had such a messed up past. And... end. You know, messy, blood everywhere (Okay, I should stop making fun of that episode now)

Dangerous.