Monday, August 22, 2005

You know, Singapore is THIS small, and nothing stays hidden. And I mean nothing. What goes around, comes around. I truly believe that.

So I think I'd better start doing my work on time, instead of rushing yet another paper. Today, I had to answer two major questions GP-style in 45 min on 'How can Singapore benefit from...' etc etc etc. (I'm astoundingly slow at writing these kinda things.) And of course, I didn't finish it on time, adding another notch to my infamous list of overdue items/work/library fines.

If 'what goes around comes around', it'd only stand to mean that everyone would be on the receiving end of it in future, including myself, yes? I don't think I'd want my supervisor or tutor to continually procrastinate my lessons or the grading of my papers. On hindsight, maybe this is why my piano teacher never gave me lessons: it's all the accumulated bad karma from not doing my work on time!

In any case, I'm going to endeavour to do the right thing. Even if it'd kill me in the process.

So my friends, I'm not going to procrastinate again! (I can hear all of you snickering/muttering at this point, idiots, all of you) At least, I'll make it a point not to procrastinate.

This means: tomorrow, I've to book my air ticket (yes Jo, I'll book it tmr!), look for my IC (it's been missing for the past 2 mths), renew my visa at Robinson road, look for my acceptance letter (uh oh), schedule the signing with MOE, get the CPF password thingy, internet acc for local bank acc, check and reply 10 emails, make a couple of overseas calls, arrange London accomodation with Vincent, practise piano, rearrange all of my 137 fantasy books... and I'm already out of breath just from thinking about all these things to do. They're really simple stuff, but they're such nitty gritty things, you know? It's just such a hassle having to do all these admininstrative matters. And I've time to blog, ha!

I've always wanted to post these pictures of my gal pals Yee Chong and Weilin:

These are the pictures taken on that fateful day where we staked out at Borders all the way till 7am. Yee Chong's the one on the top left corner next to me, and Weilin's in a black cardigan. My friends are so pretty! The next photo was taken last year before I left for my 3rd year in London:

I don't think I ever got to post these up, taken on my 22nd (I hate my birthdays) at Ichiban Boshi:

Left: The Cousin/Melody and The Sister/Grace. I think my cousin and sister look more like sisters, especially when they're both sooooo tiny! One of these days I'll post a portrait photo of the 3 of us, and the first thing you'll say is 'Who's that gargartuan cow in the background?' before realizing that it's me. No prizes for guessing who's who on the right: Abby and Jing! Credit for the photos go to Jing.

I can hear KitKat and my new Robin Hobb book calling my name! Which btw, the hardbound book set me back by $40. It really hurts me deep, especially when I know I could have bought forty packets of prawn crackers from Esso petrol kiosk (2 for $2!) with that money. Ah well.

I hope I'll be blogging tmr about all the achievements I've made i.e. NOT procrastinating. We can always hope! Have a good week ahead everyone!

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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.

fresh monodies

hong kong and london.
prague and berlin photos!
home sweet home.
feeling peaky.
I'm a graduate!
london, here i come!
I'VE GOT THE POTTER BOOK
rain, rain, go away.
this is it.
mackie's here to stay.

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arty jen
betty boop
carmentica
charming-linn
chasing snowy cars
cheeky lynn
cheryliciously glam
clean and cute
cyclist-mad bass
darling dominic
feisty jing
fellow ditz-sista/porkSTAR
hail mary!
hell's kitchen
hero on the beach
h-Euge heart
hunky lenny
lipgloss queen
little cheryl
live n learn, baby
lolita lou
loony loon
mr popular
musically dan
m y s t j
phringe
princess tania
roger smurf
runaway pigeon
sabotage king jeremiah
sibling angst1
sibling angst2
spector dan
spunky tian
steffy bunny
sun-sunzzz
teeny wee-nee
weeeee, leonard!
yangtze yang'en

frivolous pursuits

for shallow ppl
for very geeky ppl
for the truly bored
spun prose
binary thoughts
past imprints
some stamps
montage of images
other memories

mulling over

And there were phlegmatic souls.