Sunday, October 03, 2004

huge green carpet but no greens in my pocket.

My laptop is fixed! Woohoo!! Big thanks to Joanne for helping me thruout the entire process! *mwahhhh* And to Derrick in halls who had a Compaq Win XP CD. Saviour.

Just realized 'fixed' is a very misleading term. Rather, Karl was reformatted and downgraded down to XP Home Edition. A little discomfitted with it, as it's not as sleek as XP Pro. Before I sound like an ingrate, let me just say that I'm more than happy that everything is in working order.

I've been feeling kinda out of sorts since I've arrived in London. And I've just realized the reason why. It's not because of my increasing predilection for misplacing my items, nor is it the drastic change in environment and weather conditions. I admit that it might be due to the unaccustomed absence of loved ones (I miss you meimei!!), but that's not really it either.

It's simply because I can see the bare floor of my room.

I'm dead serious. It's really disconcerting to be able to walk into rm 326, without the usual stumbling blocks of shoes, books and food. I don't feel right. I need to trip over misc items in my room. I need obstacles in my path, damnit. I can't bear to see the barren carpet, without a melange of knick-knacks lying around haphazardly. Oh yes, they cannot be in order. Everything has to be messy. Tastefully and logically messy. The CDs can be placed in a corner, but they cannot be stacked. Preferably jumbled up and sprawled on the floor for easy access. My books must be exposed facing up at a page, and no distinction is to be made between journals and scores. Ideally, food should be found at all corners of the room. You get the idea.

This is what happens when you attend 4-5 consecutive years of college in the midst of renovation. (For the uninitiated, that's ACJC and Kings.) This means making weird detours around rickety scaffolds encased in green. You get used to the notion of obstacle courses. I'm lost without it, for organized chaos is now the norm.

Storage is arriving tomorrow, so hopefully things would revert back to normal towards the end of this week. Oh, and would you believe Sunsun and I have to pay 700quid for it? Blimey, that's a lot of money. I could travel to Paris twice with that cash.

I need to earn big bucks. Fast. Besides breaking into HSBC banks, performing risque activites at dodgy night clubs and snaring a sugar-daddy, anyone knows an alternative?

I wish we get paid for bumming around. I'd be the top earner.

blueprint

I will like to spend my days, as though they are my own, which I mostly end up doing in halves, for duty beckons, and I am answering its clarion call. Soon enough! I am also a veteran procrastinator.

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carmentica
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chasing snowy cars
cheeky lynn
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cyclist-mad bass
darling dominic
feisty jing
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m y s t j
phringe
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spector dan
spunky tian
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sun-sunzzz
teeny wee-nee
weeeee, leonard!
yangtze yang'en

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for the truly bored
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some stamps
montage of images
other memories

mulling over

And there were phlegmatic souls.