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.

WHAT IS THIS?

MARIA KIRILENKO, IN PAVILION?

Anyway, remember those days, when we played squash, we used to randomly imitate tennis player grunts? Like Sharapova's, Mauresmo's and most importantly (and often), Ditzy Dementieva's?

DEMENTIEVA'S TOTALLY COMING TO KL IN DECEMBER, YO. However, of all days, when my Finals results are out. Sheesh.

Maybe if I get good grades I can go celebrate by going to watch tennis players I'm not invested in.

PS. I lie. I'm a closet Lena D fan. She amuses me. I couldn't care less about Kirilenko, Zheng or Mirza, though...

PPS. Check your e-mails. Some of you may have gotten a copy of my uni essay to review.

Bahaha, I got my conditional offers from Sydney, New South Wales and ANU. Two from ANU, actually. Commerce and Arts (International Relations). Because there were up to 6 choices, AND, YOU KNOW, NEVER TRY, NEVER KNOW.

I spent, like, almost 40 minutes chatting with Ms Cheang. Heh heh heh. She must think that I'm really, really weird now. She was asking me why I wanted Liberal Arts. To be specific, Political Science. So I just told her what I thought and what I was interested in (And you know I tend to rant), then she was like, "Hahaha, you're really an Arts student".

Got most of my US applications stuff sorted out - all I need now is to pass my parents the financial aid papers, and finish up my 3 essays. Well, I'm technically done with one. But I think it's crap, so...

Thank goodness financial aid deadlines are AFTER my finals (Well, not very much after. November 15), but I'm not the one worrying about tax forms, so...

Ah, well. If I'm going to be in the library tomorrow from 8 to 730 like today, I WILL sit down and get done with my essays. >:D

But worse.

My computer decided to get its hard disk corrupted (that's what Dad and I are guessing) after Mum finished up on searching for bread recipes on the Internet. How the heck do you get a hard disk corrupted from Googling "Bread recipes"?

Anyway, so now I can turn on my computer, but it doesn't go to the blue user-select screen. It just stays black. With the mouse pointer (Which is still interactive!) there. Sigh. Can cry. DO YOU KNOW HOW DEPRESSING IT IS? I don't really care about my Internet bookmarks and such (My memory/frequency of using the Internet = I already wrote down my bookmarks), but... MY MUSIC. MY PICTURES. My videos not so much lah, I have them on my thumb drive/House and NY are still early into the season I'm not losing much eps. Not like they've been great this season either. BUT MY PICTURES. I JUST REALIZED THAT I HAVE BACKED EVERY ONE OF MY PICTURES BUT THE ONES FROM SCHOOL AND COLLEGE. CAN CRY. THOSE. THE MOST IMPORTANT PICTURES. THE ONE I CAN'T GET BACK SINCE I'VE ALREADY DELETED THEM FROM THE CAMERA. SOME OF THEM ARE NOT ON FACEBOOK. Sigh.

For music, well, all I have to do is redownload about... 170 songs. That's all. I've passed Dad most of my songs the last round, INCLUDING Viva la Vida and Left Right Left Right. I have Ocean Eyes on my thumbdrive, but now I have to go searching for my Transatlanticism, You Leave Me Alone, Drive My Soul and A Puzzle That Fell mixes. Sigh.

Thank goodness I saved all my uni applications in my thumbdrive. Or not...

Billy Joel's "We didn't start the fire" is stuck in my head. Catchy song.