It's been so long since we had a maid, and now that we have one... I don't know what's going to happen?

Anyway, Tan Sri Razali Ismail talk is on NEXT TUESDAY! 19 May, 10am - 11am at LT2, be there at 930am. Taylor's College Main Campus. Come if you're free, dresscode is FORMAL! There's NO entry fee charge, and he's going to give a talk about Global Teamwork. Now here's a not-so-confusing rehash of the details

Event: Talk by Tan Sri Razali Ismail
About: Global Teamwork
Venue: Lecture Theatre 2, Taylor's College Main Campus
Time: 10am - 11am (Be there before 10am, doors open at 930)
Dress Code: Formal

I think I might go, too! After all, ESL paper only starts at 1130am. It's just the question of dressing up in FORMAL CLOTHES for the paper.

Apparently there's going to be media there and all. Exams suck. The one time I can seriously be involved with my club, I have EXAMS. Psssssshhhhhhhhh...

Quoted directly from the Bit of Fry and Laurie 'Australian Soap Opera' sketch...

"I have a confession to make" (Say it with an Aussie accent)

...

Once you read this, it's no longer a secret.

I absolutely wasted my time watching Twilight (Though, as I said several posts ago, it was fun with the girls), but I actually like the soundtrack.

I mean, who doesn't like Paramore? And pianos? I cannot discriminate a composer because of the movie he's composing. Take, for example, the fact that I love whatever Hans Zimmer or Howard Shore composes, whatever other movies they compose music for that are NOT Gladiator or Black Hawk Down or Lord of the Rings and all.

I will now distract you from what I have just said with a picture of Alicia Sacramone.



And this .gif of Shawn Johnson's bars dismount. I need a .gif of Nastia's bars pirrouettes. Seriously.

Credit to whoever made this, on LJ.

WHO KNEW THAT PICKING 4 TOPICS FOR A MODEL UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE WOULD BE THIS HARD?

I do.

LOL.

I'm supposed to find 4 topics from G20 OR The International Court of Justice (ICJ)

Economics, or Law. Economics, or Law.

Trying to find some good ICJ topics, because we already have ECOSOC. I have something to do with piracy in mind, since it's so rampant nowadays... but what should the topic be? Argh.

- Investigative Study essay handed in. I have this feeling I did a really crap job with it. But the UN is so technical, it's kinda hard to have a questionnaire.
- Ei-Lynn provides a lot of laughs. Her Restaurant City avatar does, too
- Emily and I make a good team. Yeah, Elmo?
- Was in the library with Harvind (Bim), Michelle and Emily the other day - was talking to Emily about *cough* gymnastics (Well, ShawnJohn IS on DWTS) and then we were surfing the net and then came the exclamation, "DAMN, LOOK AT THOSE ABS" Yes, ladies and gentlemen. Gymnasts have 6 packs. =.=
- Bio practical assessment tomorrow. TSA/V. You should know what that is. Unless you're a bio dropper. Tee hee. Going to drop blocks of jelly into acid... Mmmm...
- Handling the TAYMUN booth with a bunch of other people are fun. Renee reminds me of Sue Mae. Except that Sue Mae's perkier. Jia Sheen is ever the bimbo, and it's quite amusing seeing Wei Wen stress out about hangers.
- Handling the TAYMUN booth also provides me an opportunity to meet various personalities of the college. Take, for example, an ICPU guy who was trying to guess who was in A-Levels, and who was in SAM. "SAM students always look so stressed, and A Levelers are the general population" was his reasoning
- Wei Shen (Tan. Yes, I have another Tan Wei Shen in my class. He's from Brunei) tried making his Restaurant City avatar look like a Twatlight vampire. Hee. I told him to try getting redder lips. xD
- I was going to fall asleep during Moral today, so I compromised by blabbering with the Moral lecturer. Morality and ethics and philosophy and whether the bombing Hiroshima/Nagasaki was right, and talking about Hitler and the Holocaust.

Just had a run around the neighbourhood. Okay, just ONE round. I did the entire round out of my house to the right, to the back row (Shahnon's row) back to my place. I think I would've done 2 if Dad hadn't called, breaking my focus. Blech.

Off to prepare dinner. Then I'm going to iron my pants for tomorrow. And dig Mum's jacket pile for, well, a jacket.

Damn. I'll be carrying a jacket AND a labcoat. Ugh.

I was wrong. It was actually Safina - Penetta and Dementieva - Kuznetsova in the semis. And THEN I was right, Safina and Kuznetsova won. They're going to meet in the finals! Hee.

Anyway, I was just reading this random Nastia interview thing in a forum, and there's something I really identify with.


Who doesn't identify with too short pants? xD

Which reminds me, I need to get my long pants lengthened. They're an inch too short. LOL.

CSI NY and House this week were awesome. NY more so than House, just because of the premise and gravitas of the story. I love Hawkes. Seriously. Hill Harper hit the ball out of the park in his response to Danny as to why he wasn't going to be unnerved by the skinhead's racist comments. In terms of being emotional, it was definitely a lot more emotional than House's Head/Wilson's Heart. If they're submitting an episode for an Emmy - be it for Best Actor (Gary Sinise), Best Drama or Best Supporting Actor (Hill Harper. Although I'm sure the lack of actual screentime won't do him any favours) or maybe even Best Guest Star (Or whatever that award is called. The guest star, though only in 2 scenes, went from endearing old guy to seriously evil man in no seconds flat). It was an amazing episode.

House, on the other hand, was full of LULZ to revel in. From "Fight the Power!" to "If I'm drunk enough, I might kiss a stripper. Or become one" "SOLD". The overall lightheartedness and brightness (Literally. Simple Explanation used uber-dark filters, darker than NY Season 1, to the really glowy lens in House Divided) of the episode, yet the dark revelation of House slowly losing control of his subconscious ("Amber").

Anyway, Anna Belknap will be back in next week's episode! Woohoo!

In other news, I was watching some Jelena Jankovic vs Flavia Penetta just now. It was the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix, held in Stuttgart. A few years ago, the tournament used to be held in Filderstadt, in... September? Basically, post-US Open, indoor hard court. A couple of years ago, when Justine won the tournament (And the car, teehee) it just 'moved' to Stuttgart, though it was still indoor hard court, and in September. I guess it was after the '09 WTA Tour schedule revamp that Stuttgart became an INDOOR (RED) CLAY tournament.

Anyway, Jankovic was having a meltdown. Sigh. I miss watching Justine. Woman NEVER had a meltdown. Okay, other players don't have a meltdown, but, you know, I also had a soft spot for Jankovic (Mainly because she kept losing to Justine. Hee. Out of 9 matches they played against each other, Justine's won all of them). Also, sigh. No one really slides on clay any more. But I guess I shouldn't be generalizing too much since I haven't been watching (any!) tennis. Oh, and I just checked the scores. Jankovic lost. HAHAHAMEEEEEEEEELTDOWN.

But, DARN. Semifinals would be Safina - Kuznetsova. I love the both of them. I want Kuznetsova to win, so that she can get some confidence before RG rolls by, but I also want Safina to win, because bb needs to win something as a World Number 1.

Also, there's a gymnastics competition in Germany this weekend! Sloanie's going to be there. And... that's about it. I'm too lazy to watch, although it IS elite gymnastics.

Away from fandom, I wasted about 2 hours of my life watching Twatlight yesterday. Although I must say, it was fun watching it with the girls. We get to LOL at whatever scenes we feel are ridiculous, which is to say - a lot. I mean, SERIOUSLY. THERE WAS SOUND WHEN EDWARD SPARKLED. AND. IT WAS SO... LAME. I didn't even know that the Cullens (Especially Alice) were essentially still in school. I thought Alice was, like, the Aunty, or something. LOL. Anyway, better 2 hours watching the movie than 200 hours trying to plow through the book. Also, why the hell did the other vampire - James, was it? want to kill Bella? Just to spite Edward? Or is it because Bella is Major Mary Sue And So The Entire World Revolves Around Her?

And I drove to lunch and back today. We were going to go for lunch in Taipan, and Dad asked whether I wanted to drive, so, okay! Hee, Mum was also a passenger. Mruahahaha.

My Granduncle passed away this morning. I wasn't terribly close to him, but he's still flesh and blood (Grandmother's brother... there's some blood there). Also, I'm worried for my Grandmother. You know what it's like - when you're old and your sibling or someone who's close to you passes away, you think about your own mortality. Especially when the person who passed was younger than you.

Weather's pretty cool now. As in, no sun. Off to jog.

MAY IS HERE, PEOPLE.

MAY.

OH, MY GOODNESS. HALF THE FREAKING YEAR (Okay, June is half the year, but May is half the ACADEMIC year). AND I'M STILL DYING. MY GRADES? STILL SUCK. MID TERMS. ARE IN.... 3 WEEKS. THOSE RESULTS? ARE FOR AMERICAN ADMISSION COMMISSIONS TO READ. T_T NO MORE SLACKING. As Mrs Soh said, the motivation has to come from within. There's only so much parental and lecturer-induced pressure can do. We only have about FIVE more months of SAM left. GOSH.

Anyway, so Mum saw my Princeton Viewbook (08-09 edition. I think I'll ask for another one when summer - don't know when THAT is, rolls around), and now she wants me to GIVE IT A SHOT! (Parental approval! Awesomesauce!) because, well, Princeton is generous when it comes to financial aid. And, as Mum says, when you convert our income bracket? Teeny tiny compared to what's needed for US uni fees. Sniff. Anyway, I'm waiting for my Columbia, Brown and Wisconsin-Madison viewbooks. I think I also asked for the Cornell one recently. Anyway, they come 'round in Summer, whenever that is. I'm going to assume next month.

Good grief, May is here. I knew this year would fly by, but I didn't expect it to be this fast. I mean, seriously. When I'm supposed to 'report for NS', I'll probably be dealing with the next 50% of my Internal Assessment. Heck, it sounds like I have to apply for Aussie uni's in August. STILL TRYING TO CONVINCE PARENTS THAT JULY INTAKE IS THE WAY TO GO, MUAHAHA.

Anyway - Malaysian Studies finals today went okay. Hopefully, I've managed to get my 20 marks :D

Looking forward to tomorrow. After all that fun, it'll be back to work - 3 sets of Mid Year Econs papers, lots of Maths practice, completing the final Investigative Study essay and prepare for a case study presentation for Bio.

The thing about joining clubs, especially if you're in the exco - you need to have a portion of your income (Woah, that came out more Econs-like than I expected) just for it.

No matter, the Human Rights Week t-shirt looks pretty!

Shameless plugging to come tomorrow. I need to get MY OWN details sorted out first...

Anyway, the thing about CANCER!!!1!!! and preparing a presentation for it is kinda... it's not very fun when you have a FAMILY HISTORY of about HALF (4/8) the types of cancers your lecturer gives to your class, because the "Causes" bit makes me depressed for me and other people.

- Leukemia
- Cervical Cancer
- Lung Cancer
- Brain Cancer
- Prostate Cancer
- Breast Cancer
- Skin Cancer
- Colon and Rectum Cancer (Our group's, hahaha. We were the last group...)

It's fun, though, in a morbid way... Heh... heh...

Not to distract you from the previous post or anything, but...

Today's newspaper stated that Amantadine doesn't work on the A/H1N1 swine flu virus. No it does not. And I partially blame fandom for making me chuckle at the word, "Amantadine". I just don't want to be taking it, get my kidneys and liver shot and not be able to be cured by dialysis because Amantadine binds to the body's proteins.

And, looking at the Wiki page, seeing the chemical structure of Amantadine... IT'S AN AMINE. HAHAHA...ha.

Also, it's like straight out of an episode of ReGenesis. A previous strain of H1N1 was Spanish Flu, and people, if this breaks out into a pandemic, it's not going to be pretty at all. No.

Also, it made me think of the Flash Game, Pandemic. It's fun to play, but when you think about a pandemic happening IN REAL LIFE (Okay, the bird flu happened), it's actually terrifying.