much has happened since i last blogged! it'll probably take me all night to type everything here, so i think i'll just pick out the more interesting incidents. actually though, since i don't really care about how interesting this is to you (because, as with the casino issue, i believe it is far better to exercise one's freedom of choice, and just -not- gamble if one is so against it, rather than to restrict the liberty of everybody else by demanding governmental restrictions) , i think i shall just pick out the more significant incidents which i feel are vital in your understanding of yours truly.

- i have had an epiphany. it has suddenly occured to me that, at the rate i'm going, i should probably start aiming to make it to Republic Polytechnic by the time i'm 40. i am getting Bad Grades, and with the exception of my CT who seems to think that i am 'putting in a lot of effort', my other tutors are Not Impressed. i don't know why but lately all of them seem to be going around as if they've got something perpetually stuck up their ass, like our friend the corpse who consistently spends 99% of her lesson nagging, and the other 1% of it asking us to copy stuff off the OHP while simultaneously using her free hand to cover parts of the transparency in a highly irritating and synchronised fashion. fifi, in particular, has recently threatened to not write testimonials for anybody who steps into class after he does- a striking double standard since -he- is the one who's been spotted making his class wait outside the 2nd floor physics lab while unhurriedly eating a banana in the canteen. oh, and another quotable quote from fifi:

"now, we have to be very clear about one thing. when we construct circuits, we have to be aware that there are varying degrees of lightness. for example, there is dim, dimmer, and very dim".

is it any wonder why more than half the class fails physics???

- i've changed my glasses!!! after my last pair of glasses was supposed to change colour when exposed to sunlight but -didn't- (i wonder if the salesguy was just pulling a fast one on me, hmMmMm..), i decided to opt for something a little different. well, radically different! i now have these bright red plastic framed things, which, i perceive, make me look more intellectual. in fact my dad said that i could almost pass off as a -graduate- with them, to which my mom promptly said that my specs were still "ridiculous" and that she couldn't understand why he was "encouraging this nonsense". hmph. hurteth my feelings, no! anyway, xiangwei commented that i look like a "slutty secretary" with the glasses, and predicted that in future i was likely to sleep with my boss. really nice, positive remarks all around, i must say. ah well, i only have to wear these glasses for another 2 weeks till my contacts (which had to be sent back to australia for adjustment) are ready, so i think i shall soldier on bravely till then.

- my PC has been infected by spyware again. nowadays, the most common annoyance is this pop-up browser which keeps telling me that my penis isn't large enough and that it should see miracles with enlargement pills. well, newsflash, but i have no penis in the first place- so take that, stupid spyware. one day when i'm rich and powerful i'll write my own virus code and create this pop-up that says "not pleased with your performance? click here for cheap viagra!". and then, i'll mass infect all my employees' computers, so that whenever someone clicks for cheap viagra, it'll be tracked by the system. then i'll post all the results on the company database and have a good laugh. prospective april fools' joke in the making!

- erica's birthday happened yesterday. the girls conspired to get her a hilarious bunch of really erica-ish presents:

1. a roxy water bottle with blue polka dots and a retarded button-operated flap thing, ala primary school.
2. a pig that flies. seriously. it's this little plastic pig with wing-like thingies attached to it, so that when you connect this little piece on it to the ceiling, the pig actually flies around in circles above the room. highly funny!
3. bridget jones panties! actually we wanted to get her these really lacy and gaudy granny panties and make sure she opened it in front of all the guys, but in the end we couldn't find anything sufficiently embarrassing. so we wrote "Fei Fei we (heart) you" at the seat of the panties with bright fabric paint. we only hope she doesn't take josie's advice and use it as superhero outerwear!
4. we took her to coffee bean during break and forced her to eat a whole slice of tiramisu- because everybody knows that calories have birthdays too, and are too busy celebrating to stick around on your special day!

really though, i think the highlight of her day must have been right at the start of math lecture, when, in front of the fully filled LT2, 4 hot (well mostly they were Very Hot, with the exception of 1 of them being Quite Fugly) j1 guys announced that they would "like to see erica". and, after erica managed to squeal her way down to the front of the LT, the Very Hot guy produced a bunch of flowers and got down on his knees and said "i would like you to have these". *pause, and deep breath* OH MY GOSH!!!! all the 3j girls almost DIED! like really, it was just a dream moment. ruined only, perhaps, by erica's constant background squealing. anyhow, we later found out that therbo had arranged it as a surprise for her- and whoa, what a surprise it was! i'd like to see any of the guys get a birthday present that tops that!

- i have finished all my bio SPAs! which means, that i will never have to sit for another bio skill A-D for my whole entire life! like, do you have any idea what a relief that is??? and i didn't even screw up the final skill A, so that means that i ended on a good note too. finally, the sign of more good things to come!