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.

1. My finals start tomorrow
2. I have not been studying.
3. It's disorienting typing on a laptop keyboard.

But before you squeal in joy and happiness, it's not mine, it's my Dad's. Still can't wait for my own laptop, though, whenever THAT'S coming. Oh, and it's November. I think I'll only participate in NaNoWriMo next year, when I have MY OWN LAPTOP. Handwriting about 15k (Or was it 150k?) words and then retyping them out would be a pain in the ass. So yes, anyway...

ARE YOU INTERESTED IN READING ABOUT WHAT I WAS LIKE WHEN I WAS 3? I know I am. So here's a letter from my aunt to my parents, when I was living for a while in Singapore back in 1994. Complete with new Person They're Referring To notes. Bahaha. Here it goes...
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Dear brother [Dad's name] & [Mum's name],

I'm glad to hear that you've settled down in Australia. Is the apartment very near to the hospital? By the way, you have not told me the name of the hospital! Is the weather okay? How is Ying adjusting to the new environment and weather? How is she taking the several tests (medical)?

[Mum's name] says that the bone marrow transplant will be carried out on 26 Oct 1994 if everything turns out okay. Is that correct? Please keep me updated on her progress.

Ling Ling has settled down with us very well. On Friday, they arrived at about 5pm. We brought them out for dinner in the evening, came home, cut my birthday cake and retired to bed early. On Saturday, Jo (sis-in-law) came to pick Mum (My grandmother, obviously) up for a session of mahjong at 4th brother's house. Initially, your little one wanted to follow Mum, but after playing with Li Li (My cousin) for a while she was prepared to let Mum go without any fuss.

We went to 4th brother's house later in the afternoon. She did not ask for Mum at all! She is getting along real fine with my two girls. They think she's very cute. Before going to the party I brought her down for a swim in the pool. Her cousins were having their swimming lessons at the same time. She enjoyed herself so much that she refused to get out of the pool and stayed there for 1 1/2 hours! Naturally she slept very well that night. She enjoyed herself thouroughly at I Ming's (Older cousin) party, following her cousins around. Whenever I introduced her to her cousins she would nod her head and greet them, but when it came to Yong Ni's (Another older cousin) turn, she shook her head very hard and said "No!" several times when I said that Yong Ni is her cousin! Yong Ni was heartbroken.

On Saturday, 4th sis-in-law came to Landmark for her mahjong session. 1st sis-in-law did not come until dinnertime because she was moving house that day. She has relocated to an apartment at one of the Lorongs in Telok Kurau, pending renovation of her house. I have not been there yet. In the afternoon I brought all the children down for a swim. After an hour I took Li Li and your little one up because Li Li was not feeling too good. Your little one cried when I did not bring her down again and was so angry with me that she refused to let me bath her! She asked for Auntie (my maid Anna) to bath her. After her bath Anna tried to pat her to sleep but I told her not to do that because I did not want Ling to get into the habit of being patted to sleep. I put her on a mattress next to the mahjong table so she could see Mum and she fell asleep within seconds. She's amazing! Can you imagine sleeping in the midst off all that noise?

I am also trying to train her to eat on her own. She can do it and she eats quite fast too (especially when all the cousins are around), but when Mum is around she tends to rely on Mum to feed her. Well, let's see if I can ween her in time. She has no difficulty drinking water from a mug except when she is drinking milk. I think she does not like milk very much.

She spent Monday playing with Li Li. Mum and Dad went out in the morning with cousin [I can't read the name. Yin Ching? Dunno. Anyway]. I did not let her bring Ling along because it was very hot. That afternoon she slept with Li Li in our house.

So you see that you don't have to worry about Ling at all!

Have to go now. Cheerio. Will write to you again.

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Hahaha. I'm so going to bring this down to Singapore the next time I go down. Never really struck me, you know, all this suffering I put my aunt through. LOL. I better thank her properly when I see her. xD

Anyway, some comments -

1. Yes, I sleep under mahjong tables. Yes, I sleep when it's noisy. Basically, I sleep anywhere/anytime/whenever I want to sleep.
2. NO I did not like milk very much. Still don't. XD
3. I did not know that I broke my older cousin's heart. HAHAHAHAoh, me.
4. I didn't know that I was a fast eater, either. Guess I got past the staring stage already.
5. I wonder whether I would've been an awesome competitive swimmer if I kept at my love for the pool. xD

Hope that amused you. Will be posting again soon, I guess. You know me - I blog more frequently when I'm taking exams than when I'm not.

10 days til I don't take Chemistry and hopefully, Math any more!

I HAVE DONE IT.

Sorry for the lack of pictures, but anyway.

Four envelopes, lots of papers, lots of money poured into it, I have passed them to the Placement Centre to courier the documents off to New York and Washington DC.

Nothing matters now. I have sent my (only) applications to the United States.

Please pray for me, people. :)

PS. I completely revamped my essay. I edited the beginning (Cut most of it until the bit where it was my first time on public transport), cut out the bits where I was talking about arts and sports, and just elaborated on the Bio/Econs and added about my experience as a prefect (the softer side, not about the leadership. That was covered by my resume). Thanks for the help, people. I didn't really take all of it to heart, sorry, but I think Min Shen's and Jen's were some of the most valuable. Especially Min Shen's friend saying that it felt like I lacked focus. Please thank him for me! And Jen, your Aunt, too! Thank you very much, Joel, Edmond and Sue Sue Sue Sue Mae! Love you guys. Also, thank you Wei Wen for forwarding me your resume to take a look at. Boy you have a lot of activities. My 1 page resume looked tiny against yours, heheh.

Looking forward to the end of Finals. And for my sister coming back (Hey, that's new! Ooh, and Kache, could you please get caaaaaaaandy canes?). And Singapore in November. And Singapore in December. And Singapore again. And not looking forward to uni/SAM results. Then looking forward to Singapore again. And something. I don't know. If my SAM results are good enough I'll go take an internship or something.

LIFE. IT'S FRIGHTENING.

COVER YOUR EYES, KIDDIES. IT'S A ROUGH RIDE AHEAD.