oooh, three days of fun. i get to meet up with yx since god knows when, the super busy mh AND finally have the evil tea party with jia and jun. awesome.

meeting up with yx was nerve-wrecking. cause we haven't met up since exactly one year ago on her birthday. so i was pretty afraid it would have been all awkward and strange. but nope, it was cool. we chatted non-stop, giggled over pretty boys and shared universal disgust of certain paramecium. ahh, the joys of being a girl. had a dinner of rotiprata and a lovely dessert at this uber hiddened quaint ice cream shop. =)

next day was a dinner date with mh. managed to get very very excited about uni stuff. hahs. she was carrying the free socialogy water bottle x). shopped around jp, meaning after getting tons of assesment books for my tutees( fear me. ) we headed down to watsons to wander and get hounded by aunties trying to sell skincare products. finally we took the mandatory romp around liberty. i swear, i always go there since jp is..boring, even liberty is loosing it's charm of weird imported stuff.

today, i spent the late morning and afternoon crashing jia's house with jun. much fun. we watched scary movie 4 which is so damn lame. i mean it. it's dumb, slapstick and very laughable. go enjoy it. then we taught basic html to a clueless jun. which was fun, because we get to tease jun for not knowing how html works at all. x) then we sat on jia's bed and gossiped and giggled like fourteen year old teenagers do, only we're 19ish. hahs. made plans to go around singapore before jia flies of to japan.

for once, i actually like being me now.


and how much love do i have for nickelback's far away? plenty. listen to it.

This time, This place
Misused, Mistakes
Too long, Too late
Who was I to make you wait
Just one chance
Just one breath
Just in case there's just one left
'Cause you know,
you know, you know

[CHORUS]
That I love you
I have loved you all along
And I miss you
Been far away for far too long
I keep dreaming you'll be with me
and you'll never go
Stop breathing if
I don't see you anymore

One my knees, I'll ask
Last chance for one last dance
'Cause with you, I'd withstand
All of hell to hold your hand
I'd give it all
I'd give for us
Give anything but I won't give up
'Cause you know,
you know, you know

[CHORUS]

So far away
Been far away for far too long
So far away
Been far away for far too long
But you know, you know, you know

I wanted
I wanted you to stay
'Cause I needed
I need to hear you say
That I love you
I have loved you all along
And I forgive you
For being away for far too long
So keep breathing
'Cause I'm not leaving
Hold on to me and, never let me go

today was interesting. and really long. cause i went to ikea to get a present and since it's not exactly acessable and i have developed this rare condition where the mrt freaks me.

i had to take lots of loooong bus rides. which i like. cause i kind of like sitting from interchange to interchange(meaning if i fall asleep, i'll never miss my stop (x ).

and ikea's a lovely place to just wander around. with my trusty mp3 i walked the whole of ikea looking at stuff. aimless wandering. it really is pretty cool. you walk wherever you want to, you eat whatever lunch (hotdog & drink for $1.50), and just do whatever you want to. i don't even feel selfconcious cause there's not much people around. hehs. lovely.

i really should do more of this aimless wandering.

today, i went to nusfass's open house with menghui today, which in itself was really nice because it was a change from the usual rush and boredrom sats hold for me with 3 tuition jobs. what i didn't expect however was to be so inspired and impressed by nus.

nus was always my dream school, right from when i was a kid, nus was the option. it was the only option. it symbolised success and always seemed to hold delightful secrets, like forbidden fruits which would become open to me when i got there.

so it was really weird for me to not to feel any sense of excitment after i got over the initial relief of getting posted to nusfass. i guess it's because i really love bio. and honestly, had i gotten better results i would have put nusscience as my top choice. so yes, nusfass is a dumping ground which i sent myself to with in truth only one real reason; just to get into nus.

which was why after i got my acceptance letter, i repeatedly questioned myself, was political science what i really want? admittedly i have a higher than average interest in the subject than most of my peers, however to people really passionate about it...i lagged far behind. and the added regret which was backed by the small voice in my head saying, "put nusscience first and you would have got in" made me so regretful about my choices that university lost all it's excitment for me.

today changed all that.

i went for the political science talk. it was an informal half hour thing held in a thearterette. i went in expecting the usual slideshow presentation of what ps is and why we should study ps. i was so wrong. the proffessor stood there, with only the ps logo on the screen and proceeded to give an interesting and engaging talk about what studying politics was. it was such an experience. to sit there with peers who had the same interest in politics and who actually laughed at the underlying and subtle jokes the proffessor made during his talk. you have no idea how exasperating to snicker at a joke and have everyone else just stare in stony silence.

the proffessor's talk inspired me. after just that half hour i knew i wanted to do political science. it seems almost perfect for me. admittdely, socialogy piqued my interest with it's module on religion and power, but with my kind of morals....i probably would even go against deviants. and socialogy is about decronstructing. i love my world as it is. ps compliments the cynic in me perfectly. =)

later, i attended a meeting with socialogy alummni with mh cause she wanted to know more about the jobs offered. this talk changed my outlook on nusfass completely. the people in there hold this 'general degree' (which generally doesn't sound as good as a specific degree) but are so successful in their lives. they made me relook, this 'general' term. is it really bad? it really just means that whatever we learn and whatever skills we aquire in nusfass can be applied to anything at all. it means, the number of jobs which are open or even halfopen to me are so much more compared to others.

this talk made me think that although nusfass is the dumping ground, it's also the place i can do anything i want. it doesn't restict me, infact it broadens my horizons. it allows me flexibility no where else could.

if nothing else, it brought the long overdue excitment of studying in nus come.
i'm going to nusfass folks, and it'll be great.=)