tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36972602011-07-31T02:06:03.900+08:00copyright @ 2004 Susan AngelaScouthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15606358810075985160noreply@blogger.comBlogger771100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3697260.post-1128581618634220882005-10-06T14:46:00.000+08:002005-10-06T14:53:38.636+08:00

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there have been a lot of things going on lately that i'd love to write about but i simply haven't been able to organize my thoughts well enough to produce a coherent flow of narration. i wish there are times where i can only sit down all by myself and replay all the memories of things freshly-experienced, just to let myself be grateful for having experienced them, however mundane they appeared to

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Click on the image to enlarge And, this morning, upon checking in into my office and logging on into my workstation, I was almost bursting with excitement seeing the piece of good news waiting in the mailbox. Triin, our International VP from Estonia and I have been succesfully nominated as the recipients of the 5 regional scholarships to attend the 1st Asia-Pacific Congress in Corporate Social

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Thou shalt not deprive brain cells of the joy of reading Thou shalt make time to read Thou shalt make time to read Thou shalt make time to read

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My room is in such a mess! Thing is, I have been running on the role-juggling treadmill these past few weeks. During the day, I am Susan the Intern Analyst loaded with heaps of work (both interesting and not-so-interesting ones) and deadlines to meet. In the evening, I am Susan the LCP loaded with heaps of to-dos and decisions to make. Shortly before midnight (that's the time I reach home these

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Liyan went around with her camera snapping 'candid stills' during our session break. I can't remember who I was talking to over the phone at that time, though ... 15 hours of sessions and a few hours of napping under the tables with my fellow MC members, we went to celebrate Liyan's birthday at Holland Vi. Oh, look who's here. It's Triin, our new MC VPHR who touched down at Singapore

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Ah, long time no update! Yesterday was the first meeting of us the new National Team with our venerable stakeholders - our Board of Advisors - all ten of them. The oldest is this frail-looking Caucasian man who has served in the board for 20 freakin' years. I shook his hands (he was the first one to arrive) and found so much enthusiasm and warmth radiating from his wrinkled eyes. I'm

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1) Try brain omellette and pigeon curry, turtle soup and Buddha-Jumps-Over-the-Wall soup [oOOh it's the Food Festival for the whole month of June!) Some more daring souls have also recommended deep fried scorpions and ants delicacies at the Imperial Herbal Kitchen. Um. Maybe not, not yet ... 2) Go watch Singapore DragonBoat Festival (19-20 June) 3) Go to bazaar at Arab Heritage Week 4)

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Everybody is leaving Singapore these days, it seems!! For a start, my office is gonna be half-empty&nbsp&nbsp&nbsphalf-full&nbsp&nbsp half-empty next week (HALF-EMPTY. OoOh, forgive the pessimism - can't help - after spending fifteen full minutes admiring these beautiful-yet-morbidly-depressing paintings (check out the blood sections), I couldn't help but started to feel suicidal. oOOh. You've

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Just came back from Black Eyed Peas concert at Kallang Indoor Stadium. May I tell you, they rocked the house! (although I should've brought a binocular to see Apl.de.Ap's dance moves better) Now I'll have to deal with my sorethroat. ehrm. erhm. ...n...o....v..o..i..c..e... I think I'm half-deaf too, now. Oh, well. I'd better go to sleep. Foresee that I'll have to stay until very late in the

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Things are moving very fast now. My friday evening was spent with Cheryl and Fidz evaluating her report {I tagged along, actually. It was supposed to be Fidz' LCP transition}. Saturday, two other meetings with two sets of people, and then Fidz and Zaf and I were off to watch Shrek 2! Let me tell you how 'endearing' the experience of watching that movie was, we got the first row seats! Come

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... believe it or not, are the most opinionated bunch of middle-aged men with receding hairline in the whole galaxy. Seriously. Now don't get me wrong. I love the convenience of cabbing (i.e. riding on cabs)in Singapore, in general. And yes, I have encountered a few saintly souls who surprised me so much with their kindness I felt like writing to Straits Times Readers' Forum to thank them

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First of all, let's complain about the weather. It's so scorchingly hot in Singapore these days!! *puff puff puff!* I'm stationed on the desk near the (only) window of the office with the other two interns and every day, when it's about 2 or 3 pm, the sunshine will glare directly to us through the glass window, and worse, get reflected by our laptop monitors and hence render it impossible for

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i still feel like writing some more, so let's jump abruptly to another topic, shall we?- a lame fairytale -Once upon a time, there was a girl who fell in love with her good friend. This good friend - let's call him SleekHair (tribute to his, well, Sicilian-Mafia-like sleek jet black hair)- is smart, funny, caring and, above all, a terrific writer. He would write her explosively witty emails that

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I feel like crapping a lot today and so here it goes. never mind if it's a little disorganized. Internship update!! I have been a very productive writer for the past few days - with all the report writing and editing work i did for next week's client presentation. So much deskbound job and mouse clicking that my right index finger now started twitching involuntarily during my train ride home

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Not mine, of course. My boss's :) He's cool, that's for sure. And he's very nice too. But he's clocking crazy inhumane working hours!! ... well, I suspect the pay is excellent in this line of industry. During lunch today, some of the analysts were comparing The Piers vs. Private Leaf! O.M.G. FYI, these are the name of two prime, overlooking-the-sea properties in Singapore, inarguably one of

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Surprisingly, my office people are all very very young! Okay, to illustrate that, I think the average age of the people there is 30 years old - there's only one venerable-looking american boss that looks almost out-of-place among the yuppies. I remember reading somewhere that it's the nature of the consulting industry where the fast-paced environment favours the energetic young who won't mind

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Cross-eyed after squinting too much on my literature texts (lit paper on sat, sigh), I browsed on urbanoutfitters and t-shirts dot com website and found these two gems online! Shall I splurge on this: or this ?

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April 20 was the deadline for Int'l MCVPHR post for AIESEC Singapore and we received more applications than we ever expected! Cheryl the MCP's gonna have a tough job deciding. Hm. I just realized, whoever that person is, he/she can jolly well be one of my future flatmates!

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I'm moving out of campus soon! Woo-hoo! Have been looking around for a new place and since some of my friends are terminating their lodging contracts with their owners soon, i might end up getting a very good deal - dealing directly with apartment owners = no agent fee involved! There's this one particular condominium that i've been eyeing for a long long time (my friend nanda's place) and it's

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Jan, my classmate from MIS, sent me these pics: Hmmm.... I don't know - are these ads for real? If it is - WOW!

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Finally, after so long, off to Orchard Rd with Mir today. And we saw the poster about Ikuo Nakamura's digital underwater photo exhibition with the word "Free Admission" printed boldly across it! Of course we ran to the gallery and gasped in front of all the pictures. It's just our natural reflex. ... later on, at Kinokuniya Bookstore, i found this: for your benefit, you hypermetropic

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I'm a morning news freak. Morning news program kills sleepiness faster than a cup of coffee - when Cheryl Fox was still reading morning news the no-nonsense CNN way, that is. With Cheryl Fox, morning news program was a curious hybrid of style and hard facts, all wrapped together in a sweeping sense of urgency that simply shouts, "NEWS! WAKE UP!!!". Dude, this is one POWER woman! To illustrate

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recently went to Jenny-Fabien-Rochus housewarming party with the other AIESEC people zafirah, jenny's friend, mir, susan, betty, cheryl (centre), made, fabien, KY, Sean

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Can't believe I've been abandoning this blog for ...., hm, let me see, - last post is in OCTOBER and now it's APRIL - 7 months! My goodness, this domain's expiring in a few days time! Am still contemplating whether I shall continue maintaining the space. - on a more serious note: - Wa. Got the internship interview invitation from Synovate Business Consulting for next Tuesday. Will give an

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Finally, the Korea scrapbook project is done!!

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i have been having intermittent morbid dreams during the past few days that woke me up in sweats. this morning's was a vivid one - not in terms of the dream plot or the imagery, but in the strangling fear and tenseness that gripped my muscles when i jerked to consciousness. the visual part of my brain simply refused to stay asleep, i guess. now the funny part: one scene that scared the hell out

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Andy sent out the picture he took during our previous nlds oc outing. time flies - it has been almost one year since the last conference, and now we are planning for another one! it was memorable, and i loved working with the people! i still do. Photo taken in front of BreadTalk after sushi treat at - where else but - Sakae Sushi

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hm. so long a hiatus - if you noticed, my last posting was 1.5 months ago!! and no, it was not because i was depressed/sad/losing will to life/feeling hermit-y/suicidal as some of you strangers have so (outrageously) suggested in your mails to me (although i was touched by your concerns. thank you!). the fact is, i have just been very busy recently - and consequently have been having roaring

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i have been very pissed off with a lot of things recently. notice that i didn't end the sentence with angst-loaded interjection marks (!!!!!) which can only mean one thing: my soul has finally detached herself from the body (including those fingers that typed these words) and now tried to analyze things objectively with the helicopter-vision-kinda-thing. it - my soul being a translucent

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so, tomorrow is the start of a new month. now that's what i'll call a momentuous day. i mean this is the second month of my university holiday and i have been busier and losing sleep and skipping meals than ever before during the past few weeks. true, the back-to-back meetings with my various committees are sometimes a lot of fun - especially when the meeting venue is somewhere along the strap

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so, i went out with N yesterday night, and it was really fun. by fun, i mean that i have to admit -embarrasingly - that i've been quite wrong all this time about what i think she is like. it turns out we have a lot in common and that we both appreciate the little twisted funny things nobody else ever noticed of. we started off at suntec for a noodle treat at nooch the noodle bar (which is, after

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big time packing up. each end of semester i have always dreaded this tense period of trying to get everything done before my flight back home. then a light bulb just conjured up. why not do all the packing up and gift-buying and bill-payments first, THEN confirm the date of flight? hm. this chance is the luxury i shall not forgo - since people here are still scared off flying and empty seats on

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it actually came as a surprise to me that some people can be that critical to others - and at the same time never feel the need to restrain themselves to saying whatever they have in mind about other people. i guess it never occurs to them that certain things are better kept to yourself, that not all of your opinion is worth saying. okay, so one'll try her best to keep her voice down and

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let it be known that today marks exactly the one-week period since the start of the summer holiday. and the excitement for the holiday has yet to pick up. strange. i have been anticipating this summer holiday so much, and now the momentum is just ... gone. the first things i do after waking up every day have been: 1) checking my to-do list and 2) email accounts - call that severe acute

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next semester: i will work harder i will play harder (!) i shall not shortcharge myself by denying self the rights to achieve what self can potentially achieve i shall not dread final exams anymore, but develop healthy anticipation for seeing the semester-long work to fruitition through these 'events' - however angry you are on how these measurement sticks have been so inaccurately used against

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my reading speed's going down to the rate of a snail. and a hung-over, lazy snail it is. [noo, nooo, please not now. first paper is on friday!] simply can't wait for the exams to be over and the subsequent 'summer' holiday to come and let me do whatever i want! hahHahaaha! unrelated stuff: 69 days to go before i'm off to sydney and this *grinz* :-D

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yo. evanescence's bring me to life is cool. am listening to it for about the forty-fifth time now. there's just something so darkly appealing from the repetitive pleads, "wake me up inside, wake me up inside, bring me to life". i couldn't help but reminded of the memory warehouse concept from yesterday's dreamcatcher movie (which is, after all, a terr-i-ble show). i'm burned out after another

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i'm probably going to australia in july. wait a minute. i guess i'd better put it this way: i'm probably going to AUSTRALIA in july!!!! yeah. hm. that sounds about right to highlight my excitement of my first ever travel to, possibly, meet the cousins I have never seen the whole of my life.i'm also attending the asia-pacific model united nations conference in sydney, if nothing goes wrong. the

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the roach guy's words sent a shiver down my spine. why is he being such a pessimist jerk?

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hm. adopting PM Goh's newest precautions against sars, singaporeans will probably start doing the clasp-hands greeting instead of the usual handshake. i always think it's cool when the thais do it. why didn't we think about this earlier?

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problem is, my final exam is during those weeks too. sigh. but i still plan to catch at least 2-3 shows [don't worry, Mom. i WILL wear a mask in the cinema if the situation gets worse]. tentative list: bird man's tale [indonesia] 25 Apr city of god [brazil] 29 Apr bowling for columbine [us] 27 Apr homerun [singapore] 3 May

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deciding not to over-paranoid about sars, some friends and i went to watch the first two parts of eleanor wong's trilogy at jubilee hall yesterday. it was an excellent play - bringing to the stage the issues that most people especially in singapore here feel uncomfortable about and stripped them naked in the manner that even my briton friend found surprising. especially when we were sitting so

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i hereby declare heath ledger as my newest object of affection O.M.G. look at him ... *weak knees*

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some people are simply jerks. i was dead worried when my dad told me that some family friends have just returned from HongKong three days ago and they didn't even have the slightest courtesy to tell people around them, immediately, that they've just been to a place where scores of people have died from the deadly virus. i won't be as worried if they're in singapore - but they're in indonesia,

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shoot. wss committee meeting (again) tomorrow. we - the whole IR team - are secretly praying that our list is approved by the ministry of foreign affairs. let's hope for good news from the chairperson tomorrow. for the moment being i'm gonna go do the research for my part. interesting sarcastic comment from joshua the chairperson today, "do you think the NGOs will fund a bunch of rich

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guess what. i'm getting paranoid over the sars outbreak now. i guess the feeling just rubs off from fellow notorious-for-overpanicking singaporeans ;) i couldn't help but made fun of it with H over a few exchanges of sms-es. he told me he was sitting in the library and sneezed and a girl shot a weird look at him spontaneously. ha! me, i held my breath every time a person coughed or blew his nose

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these past week, i found myself waking up in the morning and automatically tuning in to newsservice/bbc (it had always been cnn until a few days ago). since i streamed from campus network, the screen is small and blurry, but thank god the audio is crystal clear, and that's what really matters. i flinched every time the news anchor mentioned the word "explosion" "suicide bombing" "casualties" "wmd

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went to watch 'the hours' with ina yesterday night, and we came out of the cinema resolving to buy michael cunningham's original novel on which the movie is based on because we couldn't find common agreements about several key points of the movie. must be because of all the merciless cuts on (even!) main scenes by the board of censors. *sigh* what else can i say?

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yes, yes, yes! i'm in ! i never knew how badly i wanted to be in until several days ago, when the outcome of the application was not yet out even though it has been a week since the interview. until a few minutes ago, when i simply couldn't curb the anxiety of this am-i-in-am-i-not feeling anymore and grabbed my phone to directly ask the chairperson, i have almost thought that maybe i've busted

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went to the interview for the world students' summit organizing committee. cool. i never know i can handle that interview the way i did. i simply don't understand myself.

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somebody ripped my heart out and let me bleed okay. maybe i'm psychotic. but i love the adrenaline rush from a head-on confrontation.

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CHINGAY GOES UNDERWATER: Performers dressed as aquatic creatures filled the streets from Funan The IT Mall to Maxwell Road on Saturday night during the finale of the Chingay Parade. Thousands of Singaporeans and tourists thronged the 1.7 km stretch where the parade, an annual highlight of Chinese New Year celebrations here, took place. Over 3,500 performers of all races and nationalities breathed

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so, finally i got to meet the people of the deejay club. it was a small congenial gathering with the few members the club has, to listen and review the pre-recorded programme accomplished so far. friendly people - i'm glad i did join the session. and it sounded so fun to be able to do voice recording with all the sophisticated instruments and deejay-ing your own radio programme!

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7 hours of lab today, and our TA was suffering from a severe flu. worse still, the dye ran over the edge of the gel at the end, for some unexplainable phenomenon ... in short, the 7-hour of hard work preparing the sample was kinda .... wasted. phew. welcome to the real world of research. i'm exhausted.

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wishlist (a.k.a. things i want badly i dreamed about them ocassionally): - LOMO LC-A - that part-time job at Starbucks - that blue guitar - sony discman ... last but not least: - that cute guy at the deli who looked like Heath Ledger from 28 degree angle

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finally had the chance to actually go out and watch the much-talked-about "lotr - the two towers" [well, hm. i didn't read the book, so ... which two towers do the title actually refers to?] anyway, the actions were great and the story ... much more understandable than the first one. or was that because there sat Apple - who's watching the movie for the second time now - beside me, constantly '

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Finally back to school. even only after a two-week hiatus from the campus, it feels downright weird to see so many people around, crowding every single shuttle bus, every single nook imaginable, now that the new term has started. okay. i'm exaggerating, but i do miss the feeling of just sitting alone in the bus stop waiting for the once-in-thirty-minutes-running shuttle. and there's this

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Carrie Bradshaw in Sex&TheCity: "So many roads, so many detours, so many choices, so many mistakes. As we drive along this road called life, ocassionally one'll find himself/herself a little lost. As that happens, I guess he/she have to let go of the "coulda woulda shoulda", buckle up and just keep going." "As we speed along this road leading to the destination 'who we want to be', sometimes

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i finally called the career counsellor's office this morning. i guess i've been thinking about talking to a counsellor since a really long time ago. not that i've never made an attempt: i've had bad experience with the 2 counsellors i met before, up to the point that i swore to myself that i won't be putting my trust on any kind of mushy, tell-me-how-you-feel consultations. well, after some time

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well, it has been a long time since i've last updated the blog, it seems. hm. judging from the site statistics, i was apparently more active in this-kind-of-journal-writing-a.k.a-pitying-myself activity during the exam period. half way through the holiday. just came back from the [hopefully] last meeting of my committee, and got myself all excited. the big event is drawing near! all the little

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i once read what a singaporean wrote about this place. "singapore is a port that keeps its people in, but the atmosphere is that of 'life-is-elsewhere' " the spirit must be infectious, or else i would not be feeling this unsettled. or is it quintessentially a 'youth' thing? this urge to 'go-out-and-see-what's-out-there', will you ever grow out of it?

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well, thinking more about it, i can be sure that my university life has taught me a lot. about being independent. about being able to understand oneself and finding my one niche in the society. university life is a personal journey. there's no world record to beat, only dreams to pursue. it's about finding yourself and what matters most in your life. celebrate heroes. celebrate winners. be

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starting planning for the upcoming holiday! i guess the holiday mood kicks in a bit too early this time - i have yet to sit for my first paper (which, sadly, is tomorrow!) ms. lee - a nice lady who interviewed me last time - called today to fix the appointment for next wednesday, when i'm supposed to meet up with the CEO! (wait a minute, it might sound scarier than it actually is, since this is

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spent virtually the whole day chatting with jo in the kitchen (our agenda was actually studying, with the final exams shadowing our next three weeks). she came up, pretty much depressed and worn-out, hugging her always-present textbook and asked me whether it's okay for her to drop-by. listening to her, i couldn't help but imagine whether there is anyone else in here who is more unhappy than her

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took this online test on emode and .... Phoebe! Um, ok! You're, like Phoebe. Ok, so you may not have Phoebe's, well, special intuition or, um, musical talent. But, like everyone's favorite beautiful-blond-psychic-masseuse, you never lie and your friends are the most important thing in your life. With an utterly free spirit like yours, some people see you as flaky. But creative,

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well, well, well .... i wish THIS to be over very soon (wait a minute, that statement somehow conjured up the image of an executioner with an axe on his hands, muttering, "it's going to be over very soon. i'll do it quick and clean" Haha!). half-cursing myself, i did try to direct all my mental energy to do my calculus past-year papers. shouldn't have skipped so many classes this semester ... (

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another day in the library. crap. LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA!

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Maybe some things are destined to haunt you forever.Six a.m. and my phone rang. Scrambling from bed, half-cursing, I found my furiously-vibrating mobile on the dresser, and a "Hallo?" which might have sounded more like "@#$@%@#$@@!""...Hi." a hurtingly-familiar voice replied at the other end.and my heart almost skipped a bit."Sorry - I guess you must still be sleeping. I just tried calling,

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For these past few months, i've been confronting a huge part of my 'old' me - thoughts that have always been holding me behind, clamping myself close by creating a barrier of self-righteousness so thick that i see this world in such a distorted mindset and attitude. Looking back, i realized that i've always been the kind of person who could easily get into the list of "ten most difficult people

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Learning is not just about reading. Perhaps I have got it wrong all this time. I always think that textbooks are the main source of learning. But, actually, in university, reading is only a part of the whole picture of education. Lectures are the sessions in which the professors try to direct your interest and thinking, because – since you are new and a student – you do not quite know what the

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Finally, really managed to do proper preparation before my Japanese film class .i.e. by watching the required film beforehand! ~ Tokyo Monogatari is indeed a masterpiece of "quiet human emotions and the subtleties of human relationships..." (this time, no shame of quietly acquescing what other film critics had said ~ ha!~) But, seriously. After watching the movie, I called home just to say "Hi"

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Just finished compiling the list of must-see films this semester (at least to pass my Japanese Film class). Pretty ambitious at a glance, which means that I'll be spending A LOT of time hogging the TV at MRC. If only they have 30'' plasma screens instead of the outdated CRTs... :-( Akira Kurosawa : Kagemusha | Rashomon | Red Beard | The Seven Samurai | Stray Dog Juzo Itami :

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As if having nothing better to do, reread my favourite passage from Heike Monogatari and pondered about what life was like five hundred years ago. It's amazing, how I could conspicuously ignore the stacks of tutorial assignments on my desk and started doing things as mundane as this, and it's 2 a.m in the morning... just to pretend to sound like a cool and depressed poet-to-be, I shall recite

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Watched the second part of “Kurosawa’s Life” tonight. The only thing that I regretted is the realization that I won’t have enough time to catch all of his great films, since there are so many of them that I don’t even know where best to start. Watching the narration about him, I was greatly touched on how passionate this man was about his work. There were moments in his life when he was obsessed

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missed him so badly

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ScoutLynch! finally owns a weblog! Yay!

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