Dissolution leads to resolution

Happy New Year peeps! 2011 went by in less than a blink of an eye (probably half a blink)!! It must be because it's my most adventurous, thrilling year yet! Another year gone, I also feel a little old - and a few symptoms are showing too *gasp*

1. I can't stay up as late as before

I already feel tired at 10pm and I feel very tired at the start of any parties.

2. My fave foods taste sweeter than usual and I can't really eat them anymore :(

3. I feel old when I start reminiscing alot...

4. When you realise your parents are not as young as they used to be

That's all I thought about so far. Any more than that would be daunting!

I'm really looking forward to 2012 (I don't believe the world's gonna end just because some Mayans said so). Yeah, more studying involved but I'm really enjoying the course alot this year and I suddenly have more determination to strive for distinction!

Will come up with the list of resolutions soon..I can't remember last year's list of stuff (probably gonna be the same anyway haha). My mind's quite preoccupied with my upcoming exams in 3 weeks :O so I guess this place will be on hiatus for a few weeks.

Wish me luck!

'This year, xmas will be ours!'

Phew xmas hols is here! The last term of uni was pretty busy with deadlines. And perhaps I've been chilling too much now...so chilled that I'm gonna make this a very short post.

Went last minute christmas shopping today and it was a bit hectic with families and tourists faffing about London. Can't wait for the grand meal awaiting tomorrow: turkey, ham, mince pies, jelly triffle, ice cream...food glorious food! Feeling bloated already just at the thought of it haha.

As expected, I couldn't study during my stay at London. It's probably the festive mood here..London's prettier, the city laced with webs of lights of all colours. The sight of happy families surprisingly yet not surprisingly makes me homesick :(

If you're still not in a christmassy mood, here's my favourite song from my favourite stop-motion picture movie :) hope it helps!

A merry christmas to all, and to all a good night!

Bite-sizes

Weekends are checkpoints. I find myself crawling towards every one of them since the start of my second year. Also, they just fwoosh by and the next thing you know, BAM it's Monday.

But there's always a silver lining on every cloud : ICE CREAM SALE. Who knew ice cream could turn frowns upside down so easily. Worked my way through 3 tubs (with housemates of course) and had it almost everyday for the past week! As I've read somewhere 'Money can't buy happiness, but you can buy ice cream. And that's kind of the same thing' :)

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Watched a couple of gigs with ZS and they were my first gigs in brizzle! The Naked and Famous, Wild Beasts were of a different taste from what I usually listen to and I grew a strong liking to the NAF the most. Apparently they were quite jetlagged during the performance as they flew from New Zealand a day before (I guess that explains the very mundane-looking bassist haha)

The NAF - I had a good view :)

Wild Beasts - Bad view. Alot of tall bobbing heads D:<

On wednesday I watched Bruch's violin concerto with a group of friends. Classical concerts being what they are play some unknown pieces at the beginning, in which I turned to white noise and giving myself some self-motivation to stay awake. Unfortunately, poor ZS was nodding off to sleep in less than 5mins of the 1st movement of the dreary (and rather boring) symphony. After what seemed like forever, my fave concerto has finally begun! And it was really great although I thought the main violinist seemed nervous and stiff at the start (he went crazy and started to jump off the ground at times later on).

This picture was not of Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra but..it looked more or less the same..except that the conductor had 'climatic' white hair.

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Got a polaroid multishot camera from ebay - was so excited! However, I kinda messed up the part where I had to load the film. And all I produced were not what I wanted. Some of them looked like modern art, very conceptual. But most of them were not even exposed to light at all :/ producing supermassive black holes.

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2pm performed in Msia very recently and the fangirl in me (I thought she died) just wailed in agony. Here are some pictures from the concert by TM -

Nickhun and Junsu

Chansunggg

*swoons*

Oh dear when will I ever get over them??

In between my lab report

When I paused to analyse some results, I suddenly felt a burning sensation in my stomach. And I thought : oh no - it's hungry again.

Yes I classify it as a separate entity because I think my stomach thinks for itself (not a very logical thing to say at all since I've studied bio for quite some time).

My eyes sneakily averted to the food shelf, then at my desktop clock, and my stomach nods and says 'go for it!'.

I should be worried cuz that sounded a little schizophrenic!

*nomnoms*

Bonfire Night

To be honest I don't know much about the origin of this event..I just know it's along the lines of V for Vendetta - and that's enough for me.

Watched some amazing fireworks which made everybody ooh-ed and ahh-ed.

I'm happy that I was with good company :)

and I'm glad that my camera caught most of everything! Eyes half-watching the screen, half-watching the real thing, hearing how they whistle to the top and bloom in the night sky. I caught glimpses of the crowd, with hues of red, green or yellow on their faces (some with their mouths hanging open with awe haha).

Saw some children playing with glow sticks and sparklers and we were glowing with envy. We know what to bring next time!!

The best weekend I had in ages!! :) :) :)

Can't wait to watch The Naked and Famous this Wednesday :D

boo :)

Picture from a friend on fb and it really makes my tummy growl! The ghost egg would be scared of me then :P

Just realised I had a lab report due in 2 weeks and I haven't started yet cuzzz I thought the chem department will brief us about it first before we start on it. Better work on that soon!

That's all the time I have now!

xx

Rant of the past

If there's anything other than school to think about right now..there is almost none.

My mind's clouded with academic stuff..and being sick is not really helping.

I've been forgetting birthdays, rejecting events, and my social butterfly-ness is slowly deteriorating.

I guess there is one thing I do think about - what am I going to eat next.

Surprisingly I have a very demanding stomach, and I often crave for certain foods.

And I think cooking is very therapeutic..it's is a type of meditation. In fact, meditation isn't that mental image of a person sitting on the ground with legs crossed with hands resting on the knees. It could be anything really..as long as you put your mind to it. Be mindful when you wash the dishes, walk to school, reading, take a shower etc.

I'm not sure whether mindful studying/working is counted as meditation though.

I used to believe that each semi-precious stone had unique healing properties (eg. wearing a stone around the neck, hands, fingers, feet, or throat heal different parts of your soul because of the placements of body chakras). I even had an amethyst under my pillow, to enhance my ability to dream. A dictionary for these stones and their properties lay close by..

But now it's all very different. I think that wearing the stones (whether it works or not in reality) only gives you certainty..or maybe hope. Like how the rose quartz will attract love, amethyst balances out your mood (and that it's good to wear it with rose quartz), lapis lazuli stimulates creativity..the list goes on.

As if that isn't enough, the shape of the stone matters, whether it be tumbled, pointed, a sphere, cubic, pyramidal..

In the end I just thought it was all a mind game. If you strongly believe that a stone will guard you against psychic attacks, then it will!

Even when I don't believe in the powers of semi-precious stones anymore, I miss my rocks very much :(

you trip, you fall, you get back up again

It's only week 2 and the I can see the magnitude of 2nd year compared to the first. Sure my timetable is much better this time..now I understand why.

Alot more readings to do and this is encouraged by my lecturers. I enjoy reading because I enjoy understanding what's going on behind all the reactions.

I must say that I'm falling behind this week due to last week's mishap on labs..which meansss double the work next week.

Goodbye for now, social life.

when things start to kick in

It isn't the best time to blog but I just had to.

Did some catching up with some friends at Starbucks today and I wanted to try something new from the menu so I tried the caramel macchiato. It's something to really wake you up - instant sugar rush..then I got a slight headache after that. Later on I read it had a FEW shots of espresso in it omg. But it's not really working..I had a nap at 7pm..and feeling as sluggish as the day before.

I was already looking forward to the weekend on Tuesday. I should really learn how to love my timetable.

There's this blackberry blackout going on and I'm already suffering from withdrawal symptoms eventhough I've only been using my first ever smart phone for a month. I am frustrated. I am outraged. And I'm sure I am not alone. I wonder if there's any sabotaging involved..

Okay I really need to get my curly arrows going..night!

Preface

It's fresher's week and I'm just trying to avoid fresher traffic in town. You can tell who's new here haha. I hope I don't look too godamned serious/grave when I walk in the midst of the eager and bright-eyed 1st years.

Internet finally got sorted out. It was easy enough to set it up. Quite happy with the connection speed for Virgin so that's one thing sorted. Don't have to go to the library to leech off free internet (not to mention a bit of electricity to charge my phone hehe) any longer.

I need to get my academic diary. I just can't wait to schedule everything so I know I won't miss out on anything important. I'm not sure if I'm worrying too much or it's the amount of worry I should be having this year.

I feel really tensed already. I hope that in all the work I would be burying myself in starting next week would keep me distracted from stress. Oh god it's a sick cycle of stress :O

In the mean time, I'm building my wall of confidence, motivation and perseverance.

A circus from Netherlands :)

Life goes on

The start of 2nd year is closing in and I'm really excited. *warning nerd-self ahead* I miss jotting down notes from lectures, listen to how my lecturers lay out what we have to learn in such a simplistic manner, and of course the learning process. Also, turning lecturers into white noise when it's just too early in the morning and if the content is dry. I dislike labs the most but to my surprise I've scored it highest amongst everything else - in my oversized lab coat and my apparent large green lab gloves, I feel like a little girl trying on mummy's high heels and jewelry again.

No optional units this year and I'm quite happy with that..I've signed up for pure chemistry after all.

Time to get serious.

mmm on M&M's :D

Had dinner at China Town last night with my sister then decided to go into the new M&M's store right around the corner at Leicester Square.

The store was pretty impressive! 4 floors of merchandise - chocolate of course, clothes, mugs, chess pieces, key rings, soft toys, frisbees, accessories e.g earrings, magnets, x-mas deco, and so many more..you name it they got it.

Bottoms up!

Interesting Periodic table...

Bumped into 2 friends that I haven't seen for years in the store :)

We didn't buy anything in the end. Maybe next time!

Like the good times

Just running around London like I did a a few years back.

It's good to have some 'me time' trod-ing around the city. I might just hop in the National British Museum..I've been to the Natural History Museum far too many times (though I can't recite every single detail on every artifact but good enough to know where dead fish and dead dinosaurs are).

The weather forecast doesn't look good from tomorrow onwards but I'm glad I've done some walking around at the high streets :) I must say London treated me quite well since I came back - with the sun shining with fluffy white clouds against the silver-grey sky, and an optimum temperature of 15-20 degrees :)

I missed this bit of London (and not the doom and gloom one..nobody misses that)

All in one breath

There are some people that you meet in your lifetime who you can't spend a lot of time with because they are just too far away in another country but you think they're wonderful as you click so well with them and you wish life could be more fair to you instead of making you wonder how life would be like if you did have the chance to invest more on the friendship face to face and not just typing the occasional personal inbox messages to seek solace in using pixelised smiles and laughs which is definitely no where near the real thing and I gave up being frustrated about this a long time ago, I think.

..and London says welcome back

It was too warm in the airport.

I was hungry, tired, and so very lethargic.

The way to the underground station seemed to go on and on..it was a long tunnel.

I was exasperated. Finally got there and was rewarded with the familiar sounds of the tube 'Please mind the gap between the train and the platform'

I got off my stop and a nice chap about my age offered to carry my luggage up the stairs. I liked his shoes.

I was still in my T-shirt..it wasn't too cold. As I turned the corner, a gentle breeze greeted me, as expected. There was a bit of rain..small drops..typical.

I fell into a deep sleep..dreamt that I was good friends with Jun Ho (a korean singer in 2pm) and some fantasy tale about a missing triplet.

My adventure ended at the climax of the story when I woke at half past seven in the morning. Took a nap at 9. And now I'm awake again feeling that a whole day has gone to past but it's only 11am.

Jetlag, y u no faster go away??

:)

Just thought it might brighten up your day :)

The little things that I would miss

3 more days.

Impressions?

I'm such a slob here at home. Not to mention very messy. Papers on the floor, clothes everywhere, bed left unmade, cables strewn over the table..people who knows me from uni wouldn't recognise this side of me. However at uni, my room would be much neater..and somehow I developed mild OCD (as my friends would say) where everything must be in place. If not, I would be agitated.

So why is this?

The only reason I can think of is that nobody else sees my room here at home. So it would be fine to let loose..unleash a hurricane in this room. In uni, my room would have constant visitors and I wouldn't want to scare them with the messy monster in me. But somehow I enjoy being neat, it didn't feel like as if I was forcing myself to be neat for the sake of impression. I like to fluff my pillow, place my textbook back on the shelf aligning with all the other books, putting back my shampoo on the top shelf, filing my worksheets, folding clean laundry and doing my same ol' routine....I miss doing all that but somehow it doesn't feel right to do it all here at home.

This shall remain a mystery until I invest more thoughts over it. 'Til then!

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I can't stop thinking about them.

whyyyyyy :( :(