since my last post life has been very Eventful. there's a bit too much to post so i'll have to narrate according to importance:

MY BIRTHDAY!

the big deal of the day was that i got to open presents (which are always welcome, btw) and eat cheesecake. the significance of me entering my last year as a teenager was kinda lost in the excitement of other things, although i did have a reflective moment or two where i felt sad about nearing the point where i can no longer commit crime and be tried as a juvenile. i am definitely too immature to be nineteen. what i really need for the occassion is a driving license with a DECENT PASSPORT PHOTO but since i invariably look like shit on every single passport photo i've ever taken in my whole entire life, i guess this is not going to happen anytime soon :'( luckily though, i had to get started on finishing an entire oreo cheesecake all by myself, so i was happily distracted for the most part.

apart from that, a major part of my big day was spent at the doctor's cos i had to get xrayed for a fractured rib. don't ask how it happened; it's depressing for many reasons. the good thing is that it seems like the fracture is most probably only a hairline one so it's not like i have a broken rib floating about in my abdomen waiting to puncture my lung or stomach or anything. the bad thing is that i am In Pain, especially when i like breathe deeply or laugh. and on saturday i went jogging with audrey again and it seems like i'll have to add jogging to the list of things which will be have to be put on hold for the time being. i'm kinda worried that the impact of running might have partially dislocated my rib because at the end of it i could hear clicking noises everytime i walked as if two parts of bone were hitting against each other AND it hurt like serious shit. i'm not usually one to complain about aches and stuff like that so i thought that the dull pain i was feeling meant that i was getting a really good workout and the thought "pain = good" kept motivating me to run. fyi i'm not into S & M or anything. i've just been trained very well by china gym coaches and i like a good workout ;)

then saturday was class reunion day at nick wuan's house, which is shockingly big. i kept thinking of all the times he complained when we had to collect photocopying money and was disgusted. i cooked teriyaki beef for the party which everybody liked, so i was quite happy. then i got to watch the england match where beckham ALMOST SCORED! too bad that it turned out to be an own goal but i swear if not for video cameras everyone would have had to believe it was a beckham goal. nevertheless it was a Beckham Moment and an england goal, which is good because i think england is probably my third favourite team for this world cup. first would be germany because i (heart) ballack and second would be brazil because they are always a pleasure to watch. i started panicking when costa rica equalised early in the opening game but luckily klose saved the day and btw did i mention that klose is my second favourite german player? and of course lehmann plays for arsenal so that's three reasons why germany should win the world cup. anyway, about the england match, i would have enjoyed it much better if not for having to share the couch with a snuggling josie and yakky, who were full drive into PDA that i had to leave by half time. plus i was already depressed because mark was still in his safti shithole so i escaped to the basement where i actually had a really nice cosy talk with darryl and paulee and nic and i realised i really do miss them. sigh. i never expected to find such nice people at RJ and it'll be really sad when they start leaving to go overseas for uni and stuff.

as for sunday, i spent a bit of the morning in a bad mood because camp was looming overhead like a grey cloud and then it really started to storm, as in literally. which is my most hated weather because storms ruin all going out plans. so i sat about at home and resumed sewing my pencil cases (btw that's my new hobby!) until mark surprisingly popped over and i stopped pouting for a bit. haha :p then i had to rush off to camp, but not before forgetting a few essential items on the way there, such as my spectacles and contact lens cases and pencil box and wallet... this being a scatterbrain thing mightn't be too good for my career as a neurosurgeon, i'm afraid.

more about the camp later! it's time to give my hair the good shampooing it's been deprived of for the past week or so =P