Shrimps belong in the ocean while Prawns belong in the mouth.

I got another email from my mum.





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Subject:

Terrible F1 Accident.



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To all of you out there who are great fans of F1......

Pls spend a minute of silence and offer yr prayers...




Rgds

HAHAHA.

357.

What a number.


Hmm, actually, to anyone reading who doesn't understand the above, you don't have to try. Only two other people can actually realise for sure what 357 means at this point of time without me telling them, and I'm not telling you who they are either.

Anyway, back on to life.

School's starting in 6 days. Or the 7th day from now. Either way, it starts on Monday. And the stupid timetable hasn't come out yet. And we have 7 subjects.

Some random thoughts for the day (I don't really have much to talk about):

- This year's an odd one.
- At 07: 07 :07 pm on the 7th Night of July this year is a nice moment.
- Time slows down as a moving object approaches the speed of light.
- It's April.
- Relief teaching is not that bad after all.
- I can't wait to use REVIT again.
- I can wait for July.
- What happens after that?
- A year has passed since last April.
- I'm tired of caring.
- Tomorrow's Alene's birthday. I wonder if Jes and Mel even remembered that.


No more random thoughts. Time to go to sleep and wake up tmr at 6am again. Thankfully Wednesday's Sports Day and I don't have to go.

Goodnight everybody.

Hello again everybody.

This week has been especially boring. Super boring. I just can't wait for poly life to start again in a week. But then I will be stressed out. 7 modules. Two with design softwares, one confirmed with REVIT, but the other I don't know. So that leaves 5 theoretical subjects. Heaven help me.

Anyway, the past week, like I said, has been super boring. No training at all due to grading last week, and everyone is either immersed in their syf rehearsals(like Val, Emily and Florence) or mugging too hard(like Tallie) or bored out of their wits like me(e.g. QL and Jerry and the rest of them) or are just plain busy with their JC life.

It's hard being a poly student when most of your closest friends -- at least, the ones you treat as your closest -- are enrolled in a Junior College.

The only break from the monotony was on Thursday, when I met Mel for dinner after my violin lesson. My teacher said my violin had too hazy a tone, and I would have to always play super close to the bridge just to achieve a general brightness others have when they play on the finger board.

But I think it's good. If I'm forced to play so near to the bridge like this, I'll get used to it. Then if I ever have to get another violin which is brighter, then I'll be super bright, right? That'll be good.

Anyway, after meeting Mel for dinner we went to popular(pop the snake hahaha), and the silly girl walked around popular for so long to buy.... Reinforcement ring. And a pen, I think. Anyway it was quite dumb walking around for so long to buy so few things.

Apart from that, work has been as usual, hot and noisy.

And I'm bored.

Hahaha I got this in an email from my mum. I find it damn funny.


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Disorder in the Court
These are from a book called Disorder in the American Courts,
And are things people actually said in court, word for word, taken down
And now Published by court reporters who had the torment of staying calm
While these exchanges were actually taking place.

ATTORNEY: Are you sexually active?
WITNESS: No, I just lie there.
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ATTORNEY: What is your date of birth?
WITNESS: July 18th.
ATTORNEY: What year?
WITNESS: Every year.
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ATTORNEY: What gear were you in at the moment of the impact?
WITNESS: Gucci sweats and Reeboks.
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ATTORNEY: This myasthenia gravis, does it affect your memory at all?
WITNESS: Yes.
ATTORNEY: And in what ways does it affect your memory?
WITNESS: I forget.
ATTORNEY: You forget? Can you give us an example of something you forgot?_____________________________________

ATTORNEY: How old is your son, the one living with you?
WITNESS: Thirty-eight or thirty-five, I can't remember which.
ATTORNEY: How long has he lived with you?
WITNESS: Forty-five years.
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ATTORNEY: What was the first thing your husband said to you that morning?
WITNESS: He said, "Where am I, Cathy?"
ATTORNEY: And why did that upset you?
WITNESS: My name is Susan.
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ATTORNEY: Do you know if your daughter has ever been involved invoodoo?
WITNESS: We both do.
ATTORNEY: Voodoo?
WITNESS: We do.
ATTORNEY: You do?
WITNESS: Yes, voodoo.
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ATTORNEY: Now doctor, isn't it true that when a person dies inhis sleep, he doesn't know about it until the Next morning?
WITNESS: Did you actually pass the bar exam?___________________________________

ATTORNEY: The youngest son, the twenty-year-old, how old is he?
WITNESS: Uh, he's twenty-one.
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ATTORNEY: Were you present when your picture was taken?
WITNESS: Would you repeat the question?______________________________________

ATTORNEY: So the date of conception (of the baby) was August8th?
WITNESS: Yes.
ATTORNEY: And what were you doing at that time?
WITNESS: Uh....
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ATTORNEY: She had three children, right?
WITNESS: Yes.
ATTORNEY: How many were boys?
WITNESS: None.
ATTORNEY: Were there any girls?
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ATTORNEY: How was your first marriage terminated?
WITNESS: By death.
ATTORNEY: And by whose death was it terminated?
______________________________________

ATTORNEY: Can you describe the individual?
WITNESS: He was about medium height and had a beard.
ATTORNEY: Was this a male or a female?
______________________________________

ATTORNEY: Is your appearance here this morning pursuant to adeposition notice which I sent to your attorney?
WITNESS: No, this is how I dress when I go to work.
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ATTORNEY: Doctor, how many of your autopsies have you performedon dead people?
WITNESS: All my autopsies are performed on dead people.
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ATTORNEY: ALL your responses MUST be oral, OK?
What school did you go to?WITNESS: Oral.
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ATTORNEY: Do you recall the time that you examined the body?
WITNESS: The autopsy started around 8:30 p.m.
ATTORNEY: And Mr. Denton was dead at the time?
WITNESS: No, he was sitting on the table wondering why I wasdoing an autopsy on him!
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ATTORNEY: Are you qualified to give a urine sample?
WITNESS: Huh?
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ATTORNEY: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?
WITNESS: No
ATTORNEY: Did you check for blood pressure?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: Did you check for breathing?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: So, then it is possible that the patient was alivewhen you began the autopsy?WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: How can you be so sure, Doctor?
WITNESS: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar.
ATTORNEY: But could the patient have still been alive,nevertheless?
WITNESS: Yes, it is possible that he could have been aliveand practising law.
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HAHAHAH. Some lawyers are damn funny. But some of them are truly amazing too, if you bother to read John Grisham's books. There's also a very good lawyer portrayed in The Other Side of Midnight and Memories of Midnight, both by Sidney Sheldon.

Law is a good thing to study, a tiring thing to practice and the fastest route to asking awkwardly embarrassing questions in court.

But I'd rather be an architect.

Life is an algorithm with dependency parameters.


How often we find ourselves in a situation we prepared back in the past but which just wasn't plausible. We prepared anyway, subconciously. And suddenly when the truth comes upon us in one fell swoop, our brains automatically switches to that one-in-a-googleplex scenario reaction. And we react.

And more often than not those scenes do come along....



They're called surprises.

I'm back again,

this time to touch a little on a topic I know a little about, seen too much of, and had no experience of.

Dieting.

I happened to borrow a book(fiction, mind you) which told a story of a teenage girl having slimness angst and how she tried all the funny diets in the world, to finally get a guy she liked, who actually turned out to be gay.

Hilarious story.

Here are some bits taken from the book.

-Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow, we may diet.
This is something guys on a diet will always say, everyday.

- The skipping diet: Skipping breakfast, skipping lunch, skipping dinner.
This is the most commonly used diet and also the most stupid. Watch Oliver! and learn.

-The seafood diet: See food and you eat it.
The ever unchanging golden rule of food lovers and gourmets.

-The only way to lose ten pounds in two weeks, and keep it off, is to chop of your leg.
True, though some people's legs might give them a better deal of 20 pounds.

-Diet religiously: Eat what you like and pray it doesn't show.
Hahaha I like this one.

-Number One secret to being attractive: Confidence
I guess most girls don't realise this. And guys realise this all too well to the point of over-confidence.

-I'm in shape. Round is a shape.
HAHAHA.


Yeah, these funny bits really made the book quite enjoyable. The book title is Mates, Dates and Chocolate Cheats by Cathy Hopkins. It's part of a series of ten books.

Apart from that, I managed to find an Arthur C. Clarke book I've never read or heard of before. It's called Childhood's End. Quite a cool book.

And I bought Tuesdays with Morrie from the Greenview Bookshop. Discounted price some more. hahaha. Finished it on the 2nd last period of the day I got it. Shows how boring babysitting a class is eh?

But enough of books.

Today's good friday. And it's actually one of the most boring days of my life. Tallie can't make it to watch Mr Bean, Val's studying, Mel's keeping herself at home, Jes is out with Jac, and QL has watched Mr Bean already.

I spent the day with my violin and revisiting one of my old games which I once played on Windows 98.

Tomorrow's Saturday.

Hello everyone.

I'm bored. Again. It's been a weird week of shoutings and feeling older than I am.


Let's start from last Saturday.

Saturday
Spent the entire morning slacking, because somehow I managed to wake up at 8.30am and couldn't get back to sleep. The 6am wake-ups for work must be getting to me. Darn. So anyway, after lunch I practiced and practiced till 3pm, and then I left for Katong Mall to meet Tallie.

Damn good, I thought her performance was at the Blue and Yellow Katong building, which turned out to be Katong Shopping Centre, not Katong Mall. So I had to take another bus back ONE BUS STOP to the actual place. And the funny thing about Katong Mall is that there is only one escalator going upwards from the entrance. So to get out you'd have to go down within the mall and then walk out.

Anyway, finally met the VJC girl and we walked to Parkway, where Val was supposed to "meet" us. hahahah. Meet us she did, with that small pink cake. We sang happy birthday to Tallie at The Coffee Bean, and quite a number of their other customers sang along with us. Call it promoting age. haha.

After that we met up with Doris and everyone went to Eunos MRT, after which we split up. I went home, Tallie went to... er... prepare for her big event at night. hahah. And Val and Doris met with Marl to go for some function.

That's it for Sat.


Sunday
April fools day! I woke up with a message from Tallie in my handphone, saying,

" OMG I'm at my auntie's house and I didn't know, Jes is my distant cousin! OMGOMG See any resemblance??"

Yeah right. At first I was abit stunned. But then of course, my wonderfully practical and logical mind took over and decided that the date must be April 1st(yes I didn't know the date at first).

Went to Eastpoint Mall for lunch with my bro and we played Pool and Arcade Games(yes please, I still retain that hint of childhood) for about an hour and a half. Then my bro left to meet his friends and I left to meet Val at starbucks. Went to the library first though. Sat reading in starbucks while Val laughed over her friends stunned reactions to her April Fools trick, which was supremely elaborate and a little over the crazy side of april fool jokes.

We went for dinner at Mac's, which I'm really quite sick of already, and then went home.


Monday
Woke up early on this day FOR NOTHING. There were no relief vacancies in Greenview so I didn't go. So I spent the first 5 hours of the morning slacking and practicing, on and off. Watched The Return of the King again in the afternoon, and practiced again. Then I left for training.

I don't know what came over me during training, but I felt very melancholic and angry and tired. Not physically tired, but emotionally. Like, inside. I still remember this time last year, when I was still deciding whether to go back for training. I did, of course, though I didn't expect things to turn out like they are right now.

Anyway, train ride back was better than the whole day altogether, and I went to sleep early.


Tuesday
This was a horribly irritating and boring day. Some of the classes I went into were so frustrating I had to dent their class' blue box before they realised I was there. So irritating.

Went home immediately after work and slacked until evening, then I went to visit TWE at their night rehearsal.

Then went home and slept. Like I said, a most horribly boring day.


Wednesday
Today's classes weren't so bad, though I had a hard time locating one of the rooms throughout the school, which turned out to be at one of the farthest corners from the classroom blocks.

Slacked the whole afternoon again. Though I practiced quite an amount just now after dinner. And it seems like the whole Friday plan's over. No more. Darn it.

Well, I'm gonna slack some more and try to get more sleep in. Or I'll probably sleep on one of the class desks tomorrow.


I wish I had a fixed timetable.