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Wednesday, December 08, 2010
On:3:01 AM
I'm looking at my blog, this blog, and thinking that perhaps I ought to, well, change some things.
Like the layout. It's been 4 years since I last changed it, and things are falling apart. The smileys have been there for ages. They gotta go.
I don't know if it's gonna work out, but I'll try. Will probably move my Daily Logs of Mundane Events to 750words, where it is perhaps more appropriate.
We shall see.
End:12:04 AM
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Tuesday, December 07, 2010
On:4:52 AM
Well, what can I say? Built an epic agricultural patch with my brother in minecraft. Totally proud of it, and will still try to improve it the next time i join.
Need to get junshen to join now somehow.
End:1:54 AM
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Sunday, December 05, 2010
On:1:54 AM
Alright, it's been nice in Singapore so far!
Uuuhhh... I suppose I've generally been playing minecraft the whole time. Yesterday with my brother and xiong when he stayed over, and today in the afternoon. Then I went out with dad for awhile.
Then, yea, that's basically it. Huh.
Ah, well yes I did get back all my results. They're generally okay except G&NS where I got a measly 51. JUST PASSED man. Wonder where I went wrong:/
End:10:57 PM
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Friday, December 03, 2010
On:4:50 AM
So today's my last day in Melbourne. Had a fantastic day yesterday. Just hung out with sokshin and yimei and went with the flow. The plan was to have no plan, and do whatever we wanted. It was great.
Had bagels, and then flemington kebabs in the evening. Company was great, and the experience in general was awesome.
I haven't slept at all, and I'm started to take microsleeps. But I'm not driving so that's awesome:D Skybus ftw!
Alright, I ought to zip up my stuff and get ready to leave.
It's been an awesome, AWESOME year in Melbourne man. Lets hope it all ends off well in december!:)
End:7:46
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Thursday, December 02, 2010
On:5:01 AM
Whoa!
I was feeling nostalgic, right, and so I was checking out that Every Singaporean Son series on youtube. It's this webseries/documentary on a bunch of Orion recruits and their life in Tekong and stuff. Man, sure brought back memories.
Anyhow, I managed to do quite a bit of stuff today. Cleaned the place a bit, and patched my bike tyres. Also prepared tau yiu bak for dinner (Carine's awesome recipe), and it was decent enough. Stella prepared some awesome sesame ginger chicken. It was a good dinner, eaten over Dr. Who.
Huh! That's all I have to say now.
End:5:07 AM
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Wednesday, December 01, 2010
On:12:00 AM
Yea well, for what it's worth:

And then, because I'm too lazy to type a new entry, here's what I wrote for today's 750words.
I managed to get up early-ish today. Ah, slept late last night cuz I was trying to get more words done before bedtime. And also because before that I was at Abraham's place with sokshin, and they both went off to meet Austin (Austen?) to discuss the plans for today's supposed bushwalk, which I unfortunately didn't attend thanks to NaNoWriMo commitments.
Argh, only 10 mnutes left and still about 550 words to go! Okay, gotta keep typing. No stress, just keep typing, and it'll all be alright.
But wah, today's fingers feel slow la. Then again, I've been typing all day, so my fingers are probably like, tired already. Still, gotta try.
Anyway, so I got up around 10am this morning. Sent out relevant smses to those involved that I wouldn't be going for the bushwalk after all.
I was supposed to start my typing early, but I got distracted by the Threadless sale that was going on during the weekend. And even though it was already 10am on tuesday, I think it was still early enough in the States or something, and so the sale was still on. And I decided that I ought to actually grab myself some tees, because $10 a tee is really a steal. And I'm gonna need more clothing for next year too. Might as well spend a bit of money now and not worry so much later yea?
So yea, I used up about an hour or so trying to pick some nice shirts that I would wear. Found a couple here and there, and got myself a hoodie too.
I started typing at 12.10pm. I had about 8.5k words to complete then, and for some reason I felt like I was gonna have an easy time doing those words.
I didn't.
Well, the first thousand or so words were okay, I suppose. But by the 4000th word I was kinda struggling.
No, that's probably not the best way to put it. I was struggling at certain parts that I found very hard to type. Like certain dialogue and stuff. Because I'm still not certain how and who my characters are. Like, what kind of people they are. I haven't decided on a strict personality for them because I didn't really have time to find a good one, and also because I wanted them to sorta develop themselves as the story progressed. And it sorta worked, because in the end, I actually had a good idea of how I want to make the female protagonist like.
So I kept on typing through the afternoon. I paused for lunch around 3pm-ish. Made some more fried rice, and decided to unload the big pack of food and condiments and other random kitchen stuff that Chanel left me (eh, thanks a lot yea!!). And I totally filled up the two empty pantry shelves that used to be Ineka's pantry space. That's quite a lot of stuff, man.
I went on typing through the evening. I had since decided that some parts that I wasn't so sure about, just skip first and get on with the story. And I realised that I was giving my sentences very little thought. So some of them probably come out very weird. I haven't reread them yet, but I get the feeling I'm going to cringe a bit when I eventually do hahaha. But that's okay, because my main goal was to reach the 50k mark.
And because, as you may already know, this novel is being written in a journal style, right. And so it's sorta separated in Days. And by the end of it, so far, I think it's on Day 27 or so. That's close to a month. And there was sort of a boss fight of sorts at the end too, even though I think my story is far from completion. There are still things for the protagonists to do, a greater mission out there.
But perhaps, I'll get back to that when I've more time to type. End:12:02 AM
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Tuesday, November 30, 2010
On:2:26 AM
Ah, I seemed to have forgotten to copy and paste yesterday's mundane details. here they are! And they will be followed by today's (monday's) mundane details below it.
Fwah!! I've written a total of 10,236 words today, and it's 2.48am right now. I started typing at about 5pm, thanks to a grocery shopping trip down to Richmond with Stella. I had to get some food for myself, and I decided that since I was gonna be going down, I ought to get as much food as I think should last me till I fly on Friday.
I got up at 12 this noon, quite a bit later than I was hoping. And as a result, had a late breakfast and lunch and late shopping. And late start on NaNoWriMo.
And we went to IKEA for lunch, and also because Stella was trying to find this plastic container. But mostly cuz of lunch also haha. And trying to find parking in IKEA was absolutely crazy! There were so many cars. No, wait, finding parking was relatively easy. Trying to get out was the main problem. There were massive queues of cars along the ramps, and I dunno where the main jam was la, but it was just long and slow. Crazy.
It's late now, but ah well, I managed to get the ideal number of words done today! I think I shall just churn out a bit more and then sleep.
Fried some fried rice for dinner. Twas alright.
Monday's Mundane Details:
I spent the afternoon today helping to move Chanel's stuff with Kangwei. Wow, spent way more time than I had anticipated man. I drove down around 1pm, and then finally finished everything at 4pm. There were loads of stuff to move to this Fort Knox storage area, and Kangwei was being the man organising everything. There was a moving van to help us with the logistics and all, and the movers weer very helpful, yes. Chanel owes us a good meal now, right?:)
And by some sheer coincidence, abraham, rey and gang happened to be at Fort Knox moving stuff too. Kangwei saw Rey in the office, and the others saw my car parked inside. Hahaha. They were helping Sylvia move her stuff, because she's gonna be probably moving back too. No idea if she's gonna come back anymore:/ Ah well. Hope to have one last meal with her sometime.
Fort Knox was quite a decent place. The people seemed nice, and we could help ourselves to free drinks in the office haha. And I think that they rent out storage spaces at quite reasonable prices. Not too sure exactly how much they are, though.
After moving stuff, kangwei and I got slightly lost around north melbourne, haha. And then we went down to winston's place so that he could drop his printer and stuff in my car. I offered to help store those things while he was gone.
I sent kangwei home, and then parked herbert sherbert in the Uropa parking lot, with access thanks to chanel's remote.
I then went down to brownless to work on my novel. Well, so far so good, I suppose. It's about 2.38 right now and I managed to get about 9,000 words done. I have about 8500 words left to do, but I suppose I'll do that tmr. As a result, I doubt I'd be going on the bushwalking trip that Abraham was talking about. I mean, well, I was seriously considering it awhile ago, but I don't think I can make it at this rate.
Then again, I probably should go. But I don't know. If I can somehow type fast enough tmr la haha. Maybe I should get up earlier or something.
Anyway, so I was working in brownless, and then sokshin popped by. She had some massive secret thing that she wanted to announce to abraham and I later.
Fast forward to dinnertime at Abraham's place. He made some awesome chicken schnitzel wraps, and Sokshin contributed awesome Connoiseur ice cream hahaha. I chipped in a weeee bit for the ice cream too la aye. And we were generally discussing tmr's bushwalking trip.
Well. I dunno. See how!End:2:42 AM
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Sunday, November 28, 2010
On:2:05 AM
Hmmm okay so today I spent about 6-7 hours on NaNoWriMo, and churned out about 6.5k worth of words. That's about a thousand words an hour, and that means that within the next three days, I have to finish about 30hours of writing, at that rate. Now I only need to keep up that rate, and right on avg 10 hours a day. Sounds possible. Hope it can really be done.
I'm getting too comfortable with this Singapore time for 750words. Haha oh man.
And yes, I'm getting too comfortable indeed. This afternoon, I decided to drive down to uni instead of cycling. Because it was rainy, and I suspected that it might rain the whole day. And I really reeeaallly didn't wanna get wet and gross and all, and since parking's free from the afternoon onwards, I decided to drive down. Such a luxury man, tsk!
Listened to third eye blind on the way down. Twas good.
I stayed at the outdoor study area behind alice hoy, cuz I thought I might get inspired by all the outdoorness. It was okay la. I managed to type once I realised I just had to keep the story going and not bother too much about getting the details too artfully right and all. Just keep the plot moving for now. Aim for the word count, and then I cane dit after this is over.
Hmm yea, that's all I really have to say today, I think.
Oh yea, I went for christian's party at 7.30. I didn't stay for long, because I wasn't feeling particularly sociable, and I had NaNoWriMo to do. Christian can make some serious pastry pie-things though. Incredible stuff.End:2:06 AM
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Saturday, November 27, 2010
On:12:15 AM
Wow, this is not very healthy man, but I've had another late night haha. For details, please refer to 750words.
I believe I've technically skipped a night's worth of blogging. Well, I suppose on Thursday, I was mostly nanowrimoing and I got about 2000 words done I think.
Thursday night was spent in the city. That is all that shall be said here haha. But it was spent very well.
Drove back at 11am in the morning today (friday). Slept till 3, cycled down to mumc where seann picked us up to go north altona for rock climbing at Cliffhanger.
Wow, and I'm totally enjoying their routes there man. Very nice. And their friday after 5.30 rates totally beat hardrock, and so I'm sold. Will prob frequent Cliffhanger now.
Climbed mostly 16s and 17s. Attempted a 18 but failed. Nvm, next time.
Had a wonderful night climbing in general. Twas awesome.
Ate dinner at laksa king, was very good. And that's when we found out that raymond was in the same trinity batch as us all hahaha!
Cycled home, and I'm glad to be safe and sound and in one piece after all this man. Damn shagged now.
End:1:28 AM
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Wednesday, November 24, 2010
On:11:57 PM
This morning I got up around 11. I think I haven't been sleeping well thanks to the eczema acting up. And it was generally a warm night, and I slept with the fan right up next to my bed. So today I decided to screw it and just use my tube of corticosteriods. I try to avoid it la, but so far that's the best, most responsive medication I got. And I'm sick of waking up tired.
Went down to the supermarket to get stuff for my meals. Wanted to get some stuff for green curry, but saw that my only source of lemongrass (well, other than the supermarket) in the asian grocer were providing really strange, softish lemongrass. I think it's the heat, but I didn't wanna take my chances. It was also pricer than usual. So, I decided to make some chai tow kway instead.
Making the carrot cake itself took quite some time. Managed to settle lunch by 3, and then only had a few hours left to work on my novel before I had to leave the house again around 6ish, to meet Chanel and Hendrick for some Harry Potter.
Had dinner at pancake parlour first, though. Got a good chance to really compare just how good their pancakes are. These are fluffy, thick, and wholesome. Is it really just the buttermilk? I'm not even sure where to find buttermilk. Not sure if safeway stocks them, hmm? But nvm, someday we shall find the secret to it.
The movie was pretty cool! Very typical Harry Potter fantasy-epicness. This movie was particularly dark, though, because it really had the characters just running around trying to survive. They don't even have a solid base anymore, like nowhere's safe. Well yea I suppose all they need to do is just get hermoine to cast that spell to hide themselves, but yea, they're all out in the wild and stuff. Harsh.
I definitely enjoyed the film. And I've never read the book (or any of the books) and so I don't need to compare it to that. I think I can see how people like Adam might be bored by it though:P He sees things...differently. But the more I talk to him, the more I feel like I can sorta see how he sees too. But maybe I'm totally off, I dunno.
It was a satisfying 2hour-ish show. Looking forward to the next, last one.
Man, I can only dream my novel, if it's ever done, becoming something as successful as that, right. But then again, if given a choice, I'd rather make a novel that's really brilliant but with a really narrow, limited audience, than a novel that's just kinda-good but massively successful. I'd like to create a work of art.
But anyway, hah, at the present rate it seems pretty hard.
So after the movie, it was time to go home, and then we realised it was RAINING! Wooohooo!! I'd normally be much happier, given how hot it has been the past few days, but I wasn't all that enthusiastic about cycling home in the rain. It had to be done, though. And I was in shorts and slippers, so that was actually good in that I didn't have to dirty my jeans and shoes.
Wah, finding it really hard to pen my words down right now. I shall perhaps just be quick and sleep. Damn. Running outta time. 5 days left, and about 40,000words. That's about 8000 words a day. Not looking too good, there.
Ah well. Time for some words, and then bed.
End:1:10 AM
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Tuesday, November 23, 2010
On:11:55 PM
Anyway, on to mundane details of the day which I shall include in my blog.
So this morning I got up at 1pm. Slept kinda well, I suppose. Uh, I don't think the sea water yesterday was all that good for my skin. My inner elbows were prickly when I got up, and I think I must've been scratching them pretty badly last night. Damn. Well, now I know la. Must always keep them hydrated. I think the main issue was not really anything irritating about the sea water, but that it just really dried my skin. Hmm yea.
I heated up the cassoulet that stella and adam made last week. Still got quite a bit left, and clearance for me to help myself to it has been granted, so I didn't really hold back.
I tried a bit of minecraft in the afternoon. Losing a bit of interest in it man, damn it. Or maybe I just had to have the right, y'know, mentality or something. I was talking to my brother on gchat sometime later today, and we were talking about minecraft too, and now I'm slightly more excited about it heh.
I tried to get some nanowrimo done in the afternoon, but didn't get very far. Adam saw me looking at a bunch of text in the evening and yelled to stella that I was studying again. I said I wasn't, and so was thus forced to reveal that I've been working on a novel haha. Now, it's not that I want to keep things from them la right, but it's just that, I don't say things I don't have to.
But anyway, it was good talking to adam about it! Gave me some good ideas which I need to develop further. And I shall.
We all got some pizza for dinner. Everyone was lazy to cook haha. I was thinking of making some green curry, but I was lazy to leave the house and all.
Ah well. I may have gotten up at 1pm, but I'm getting tired again. Sleep is good. Perhaps I shall get up a bit earlier tmr. After a thousand or so words tonight!
End:12:39 AM
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On:1:28 AM
Okay, I believe I have about 2 or 3 day's worth of entries to write. My bad. Been trying to chiong UPE.
Saturday I stayed at home and tried to study, but got distracted here and there. Oh and stella's sister's friends came to visit, and so stella and adam were bringing them around during the day. I joined them for awesome fish and chips for dinner along the beach near sandringham. Watched the sunset, and it was nice.
Sebastian, one of the friends, used to be from 30SCE too haha. But he was lucky enough to move onto 3rd Div as a clerk.
Then on sunday I stayed at home all day and studied as much as I could. But y'know, you can always study more. But I tried, somewhat, and yea. Didn't bother making notes at all, just listened to lectures and read the slides.
Sunday night I slept late, around 3ish, because I was starting to realise what I didn't know, and was quite frantically making sure I knew them.
Monday morning (this morning), I got up around 7.45. Did some last minute revision, closed my laptop, made some terrible coffee (it usually isn't this bad, y'know! Dunno what happened!) and then left the house, ready for my final paper.
Well, I wasn't ready ready, but was as ready as I could've been, all things considered.
Cycled down, it was getting warm, and entered the exam hall just on time.
The essay questions, well, I remembered Stephen's comment that Andrew's essay questions tend to be very stable, and checking the past year papers they seemed to be either about igneous rocks, silicate mineral structures, metamorphic rocks, or volcanoes. Sure enough, this year's Andrew's question was on volcanoes. Anne-marie's was on the life of any of 4 major eons or something, and Stephen's was....I dunno. Didn't really read. I took the volcano one, since that was the one I was most confident in. I think there are some things I left out, but I hope I generally answered the questions.
The MCQs were alright. Not too many tricky ones, tho a few here and there, and then some that I totally had no idea.
Short answer questions were lenient enough, I suppose. Wonder if I answered enough.
And then, at 12nn, I left the exam hall, and left it a free man.
Called up kangwei and chanel, for some pancake time. Chanel has this new recipe for extra fluffy pancakes, and I was looking forward to trying them out.
Met kangwei at safeway lygon first, to get some stuff. And also got some amazing coffee at this new Campos Coffee place, along elgin st. Chanel's friend's recommendation, and it was well recommended indeed.
The pancakes turned out very awesome. The secret to fluffiness might be to really beat the eggwhites till stiff peaks form. And chanel made the strawberry sauce thing, and it was really, really good. Paired with the pancakes, along with the ben&jerry's strawberry cheesecake ice cream that kangwei had, oh man, those were pretty much the best pancakes I've ever had outside pancake parlour.
After that very wonderful brunch, I headed down to meet abraham and sokshin. They were at st kilda beach, near luna park! Hahaha. And the sun was seriously burning today. Glad I brought my sunblock out.
Met the both of them having lunch at amigo's. We then headed down to the beach to chill, and for a good dip. I was hoping the sea water would do my eczema some good, but this time it just seemed to dry my skin and I dunno if it's really good or not. Right now, well, I don't think it really had much effect other than..drying my skin:/ Which isn't good.
Still, swimming in the sea water was very welcome given the burning sun.
We were joined by sylvia and louis, not too long after that haha.
Chilled there till sunset. Didn't really see much of a green flash this time (might have sorta seen it when I was out with the housemates and friends!)
Went for dinner at Abbey Road. It was kinda pricey, but it was decent, and I felt like spending.
Came home and packed my room!! While waiting for sokshin's call, cuz she was gonna come by and borrow my sleeping mats for her camping trip coming up. And I changed the bedsheets and all, and so I feel good:D.
It's bleedin warm, though.
Ah, yes. And this carton of pura milk leaked in my bag:( Kinda washed it, and now it's out drying. Hope it wont smell (too bad).
In contrast to the usual tradition where I'd type this in 750words and then post it here, I shall do the opposite this time. Just because I had to make up for the previous days and all. And yea, my 750words is currently set to s'pore time so no issue about doing it past 12 here heh.
Thus ends my 2nd academic year in melbourne uni! Wow damn man.
End:1:28
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Saturday, November 20, 2010
On:1:48 AM
Mom's in melbourne! Came down this morning, for a short break from work and to work out some banking things.
I got up early to head down to uni to show stella the engineering room that she wanted to see. And then had some good coffee.
Tried to do work in morning, but settled my re-enrolment instead. At least that's outta the way now.
Had subway for lunch, and studied at the area outside ERC and Alice Hoy. It's quite nice. Watching the bird wash their feet on the water feature's really...cathartic.
Reached home around 8ish, and haven't studied since. Eurgh.
End:1:55 AM
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Thursday, November 18, 2010
On:10:29 PM
I'd really like to melt into my bed now.
This ain't healthy man.
Alright, so yesterday, I went climbing in the evening. It was good, but I couldn't go up the green 17 and that really sucked:(.
Then, thans to Chanel's suggestion, we gathered people for a drive down somewhere to watch the Leonids.
2 cars worth of us drove down to John's Hill Reserve.
Stars were nice, but the clouds moved in by 4.30 am:(. And we wanted to catch the sunrise too but it was foggy over the horizon.
Company was good though. Very chilled, very relaxed. Good atmosphere.
Although, the general driving experience was scary cuz there was more than one instance where I put the lives of the passengers in danger. Eurgh. I might not have been sleepy, but seriously, driving when tired is damn dangerous too. Cannot play man. And I almost hit a wombat too. Damn.
Got home around 11am, cuz my car decided to go for some nice breakfast at Dead Man's. Enjoyed my omelette fully.
Slept till 4.40, when I saw I had 5 missed called from boonhan. Damn, I was late for mahjong. So I got up, and cycled down. We played mahjong, and it was cool, and I only lost like $2.80, but I was feeling very seh.
Cycled home, and I'm very happy to be alive and safe now. And to be able to sleep.
Mom arrives tmr morning I think. Shit. A bit worried about my UPE on monday now. But nvm, I'll work things out. I've got to.
This is so bad for my body/mind. Eurgh.
End:10:35 PM
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Wednesday, November 17, 2010
On:3:00 AM
Aahhh.
Been awhile since I last blogged, yes!
Allow me to explain.
Yesterday, I bunked over at the hobohut because I was having a massive intensive cramming session. I was initially in brownless, studying with liz and ethel, and then I realised that there was so much more I had to cover, and at the rate I was going, I wasn't gonna finish anytime soon (it was probably about 12 when I realised that). The coffee machine in brownless is cool, though, and makes quite good coffee.
So.
Around 1ish when ethel couldn't take it anymore, we headed home and I headed down to the hobohut. I could've gone home but I was feeling the pressure and I needed to save as much time as I could. Cycling back home and then to uni again would waste more than an hour. Also, if I stay over at the hobohut, I'd be less distracted, somewhat.
Man, I feel so stoned right now. So tired. Argh!
And so I stayed up till 4ish studying. Much thanks to the hobohutters for their hospitality.
Got up at 9ish, revised more material. Having cognitive psych paper the previous day definitely didn't help, because it felt like I had to squeeze in content while pushing out cog psych stuff. It was haard.
But it had to be done.
And so.
Oh hello chanel, kangwei.
Anyway.
So basically.
Today's paper was okay. Won't die. Should pass. Compared answers, lost some marks, but should be ok.
Then I went to chill at the hobohut, before joining egg and eric for dinner. Decided to use my free-meal that egg owes me then, hahaha. Twas awesome, and ate well. Ah yes, we ate at the old town kopitiam in melbourne central. Twas good. Nasi kandang.
Man, so tired!
Okay, just a bit more.
And then, we went to play L4D2, and brendan joined us with his friend vincent. Had fun, but 3 vs 2 was just not that fun after awhile haha. And then we played CS:source. Old school stuff man. Felt young again.
When we walked outside, it wa a bit weird with the cold air and all. The normal feeling after walking out from a LAN shop is to feel the humid, warm air blowing across your face, in Singapore. But this time, there was like, some sort of dissonance. Yes.
Went home, and for some reason I am now not at home. Tis awesome. We're only young once.
And I shall be sleeping soon.
End:3:14 AM
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Monday, November 15, 2010
On:2:37 AM
Haha omg I totally walked past Mani at the fire engine station and totally didn't recognise him. Only knew when he posted on my facebook wall. Hahaha maan.
Anyway, I oughta go sleep now. Need to maximise sleep time. Gonna get up a bit earlier tmr and do some last minute revision.
Okay, I've been fairly productive today. Managed to get up around 10 cuz adam gave me a morning call. Wanted to borrow my car keys. Happy to oblige, since the car needs to be used once in awhile and they offered to refuel it too:)
Finally finished the cog psych mindmap. It's as comprehensive as it gets la, while trying to work with concision, I suppose. Does that make sense, no? Nvm.
Made fried rice for lunch and dinner.
Left house around 5, after slacking around a bit more than I should have.
Went down to that area opposite Romano's, at the ERC entrance, to find winson and hendrick. Looked through the mindmap a bit there, and realised that I left out lecture 1. Gargh. So I did that then.
Went for dinner at 7.50, heated up food at the hobohut. And went down to brownless to join liz and ethel in some psych revision.
Twas quite productive. Threw each other random questions, which I feel really solidifies our understanding in those certain areas. Other areas, we just gotta hope for the best.
Stayed till 1ish. Don't think I've stayed up this late before an exam:P Or been this unprepared (then again, I rmb struggling while preparing for last year's second sem philo sub). But we shall see tmr.
Till then, sleep.
G'night y'all.
End:2:45 AM
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Sunday, November 14, 2010
On:3:09 AM
Dammit, I'm quite far behind my NaNoWriMo now. Like 10,000 over words. Haha shite. Nvm, shall catch up in due time:)
Y'know, I just realised that yea. This has pretty much been my busiest semester. I wouldn't really say most difficult, because that really depends on your subjective take on it. But I think I've been in more situations where I've had to push myself to stay awake more, and where I find myself generally having less time for slack stuff like games and stuff. Hmm.
Anyway. Today (Saturday) was...not that productive. Couldn't beat Friday, or Wednesday. Till now, I've only completed some lectures. A small number. I do like the last series on Attention tho, good lecturer.
Shall sleep soon and get up a bit earlier tmr. Yes.
End:3:19 AM
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Saturday, November 13, 2010
On:2:11 AM
Was studying psych with liz and ethel over bagels. Salmon was a bit weird today, but otherwise it was great, as usual.
Went on studying psych the whole day. Wasn't particularly productive in the afternoon, but after we moved to brownless, I managed to get a few more lectures done by 11pm.
The weather was bleedin hot today man. And humid too. Felt almost like Singapore.
Thankfully, a thunderstorm arrived in the evening. And then paused for a bit around 11 when I decided to head home, and now it's raining nicely:)
Awesome. Shall get more work done tmr woohoo!
End:2:17 AM
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Thursday, November 11, 2010
On:10:54 PM
Alright, so I spent wednesday doing my P&S psych mindmap, and managed to complete most of it. Then tried to do cognitive, but progress was slow.
So I slept over at frank tate reading room, because by the time I walked Sam home it was like 5.30am. And I wanted to maximise my sleep time.
Got up every hour or so, but fully woke up at 12. Tried doing my cog psych mindmap, but progress was slow.
Went to abraham's place for lunch. Awesome pork chops man. Sok shin was there top, and we watched the first episode of HIMYM while the potatoes were baking hahaha.
Ate on the rooftop, and it was awesome, as I believe I've already said.
Sat there on the rooftop soaking up the sun for awhile. The yimei joined us around 4ish, after her paper. Wah, honestly I didn't plan on staying so long la, but I didn't want to leave either. Good company man.
Then we went down to starbucks to try the toffee nut latter that yimei was all so excited about hahaha. My first time entering starbucks in melb, man!
The coffee was nice, but I was so tired anyway it didn't really help in perking me up heh.
Then went down to kbox cuz it's sorta fery's farewell celebration thing. Wasn't planning on staying long either, but I enjoyed myself too much and sang the night away haha.
Tis been a good, but unproductive day. Nvm, I shall get up earlier tmr heh.
Bagels tmr:D
Alright, g'night!End:10:56 PM
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Wednesday, November 10, 2010
On:2:44 AM
Hmm.
Spent the day (Tuesday) occupied with psych and NaNoWriMo.
Got up early in the morning (around 9ish) and finished up my GNS assignment. Finally. I think it's of a...pretty poor standard. I mean, I'm afraid it's lacking in focus. But I had a lot of words to fill up. Agh. Oh well, brought this upon myself. If only I can learn to properly start early. Hmm.
But yea hey. This took two full all nighters man, and more. It's just a lot to think about:/.
Went to brownless in the afternoon, and then frank tate with winson at night.
Oh and apparently our UPE prac marks are out, and wah damn man. Dodged the bullet man. Thought I really screwed it up, but it turned out pretty ok.
Wanted to do more psych at night, but I was trying to develop some ideas for my novel. Argh! Gotta focus, and get more lectures done tmr. Time's awasting. There'll be time to work on my novel after my exams.
Currently enjoying my supper of jap curry and rice. Ooooo yeea.
End:2:51 AM
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Tuesday, November 09, 2010
On:12:02 AM
Ineka's left. Her last night was last night, and yea, she hung around today to pick up the remaining bits of her stuff.
She made a fantastic eggplant-lasagna thing, that was beautifully presented too. It was awesome stuff. She even thought to get lamb cuz I couldn't eat beef, and purposely used eggplant in place of pasta cuz Adam doesn't eat pasta/flour-stuff.
I baked some brownies, which were pretty darn good if I do say so myself:). I think using brown sugar really helped. I also threw in some walnuts, and I actually haven't tasted any yet in the servings I had, but yea, I'm sure it helped somewhat. Ineka, Stella, both enjoyed it too, with the awesome macadamia honey nut Connoisseur ice cream I bought at safeway. (it was on sale too!!:D)
And yea, it's been fun having her around. Really a little sad to see her go. Didn't think I'll feel this much but yea. Now the house is gonna be even emptier! Ah well. Simpler, tho, but emptier.
Yeeaaaa.
Oh well.
Anyway, so I stayed up in frank tate last night. Tried to finish my assignment but I couldn't. Not with the standard that I was aiming for. Kevin was in frank tate too, but he was upstairs, and came by downstairs every now and again.
By 7am, I had about 1400+ words worth of okay-material and I decided that it was enough, and I went back home.
The cycle back was pretty okay. Lotsa cars.
Got back, had a nice shower, and then slept.
Slept until about 12.40, and very slowly got up. Wah lao, very xiong leh hahaha. But I had to get up cuz of work and all. Didn't want to catch myself outta time.
Made a simple bowl of soup noodles for lunch. Quite decent. Good use of choy sum because if not they're gonna go.
It was like the last time, I submitted it to turnitin just a few minutes before 5pm. And then I realised that huh, Stephen set the due date as 11.59pm, 9/Nov? That's tmr, tmr night! Hahahaha. Awesome stuff. But then again, maybe it's a trap or something. Like, maybe if I still submit after 5 I lose marks. But oh well, I shall not edit my turnitin copy then. Shall just edit the master copy and print it out.
There's something about this assignment I don't think I'm answering that well la. Damn. I wish I had another week to do this. Then again, I'd probably waste that week. How ah? I kept it in mind to start early for this assignment, but I always seemed to have something or another to keep me occupied until the last minute. I suppose all things considered, I did start earlier than I did the previous assignment, but the end result seems to be the same. Well, I can't say for the end-end result, that is the actual result. But like the last time, I was rushing the assignment toward the end too. And last time I didn't have the privilege of using Frank Tate 24hrs.
I found the few hours I spent sitting outside ERC under that strange shelter quite useful, though. Good in sorting out thoughts. Must remember this technique next time. Just find a nice spot outside, and stone. Listen to music. Belle and Sebastian and the Shins are good for that.
So back home, I submitted the essay and felt awesome. Didn't bother doing work since. Tried playing minecraft a bit, but sadly the novelty's kinda worn off for me for that game. Nvm, shall try again next time. Maybe I just need to y'know, find new stuff to do. Like head towards dawn or something. I could also keep going on with my ever-extending tower.
I haven't been TOO tired. Kinda tired, and ready for sleep, but not zombified.
I drove down to safeway, in anticipation of all the groceries I needed to get. Quite a bit of things la. Like milk, meat, some hard vegetables for jap curry and stuff. Don't think I'll have much time this week to make any elaborate meals, and so I'm gonna have to focus on the fast and easy meals. What can they be ah? Fried rice? Jap curry? Meehoon keuh? Hmm meehoon kueh need to make the dough, not that fast and easy. Maybe pasta? If I get premade sauce. But I try not to use premade sauce la. And I'm kinda sick of cream pasta. My cream pasta never really turns out great:/
What else.........
Ah, listening to the Whitlams now. Damn, the more I listen the more I like la. Totally feeling "Keep the light on" now.
There's gotta be other easy meals out there. Fried noodles? That and fried rice similar la right.
Soup. Soup stuff. But soup stuff hard to make in bulk, if I wanna add vegetables right? Hmm. Okay la, slowly think la.
Will sleep well tonight.
Might blog this, I suppose.End:12:45 AM
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Sunday, November 07, 2010
On:12:58 AM
Stayed overnight at frank tate last night, in an attempt to successfully complete this challenge mutually offered to/from kangwei. We said that we'd complete our 2000words for our essay by 7am the next day (sat morning).
I stayed up, didn't happen:P
Spent friday with bachormee for lunch thanks to chanel. And then dinner was supposed to be beatbox kitchen awesome burgers, but then it was full so we went for pacific house's awesome roasts. Service was terrible, but not as bad as usual.
Staying up wasn't easy, and I managed only like 1000 words of crap. Eurgh. Need some major revision tmr.
Had bagels with yimei for lunch today (saturday). Salmon benedict really hit the spot. Coffee was alright, did expect a little better, but still very decent.
Ah yes, I managed to get some sleep from 7-11am cuz hendrick and kevin popped by around 6am after their work. Hahaha. Awesome.
Went to brownless after lunch, stayed there till night. Managed to finish a particularly painful lecture on self-regulation. Gah. NaNoWriMo has been compromised, but that's okay, I'll catch up soon enough:)
End:1:02 AM
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Friday, November 05, 2010
On:5:06 AM
Hahaha another late entry.
Went for lunch at bimbo with Chanel. Felt like lucky coq initially, but realised that no one would come down to prahran just for that. Thank goodness there's bimbo. Had a poncho, and it was awesome. And then got ourselves a lemon tart slice from Babka. Best lemon tart ever. Had very good flat white too. This was the 4th awesome meal in a row. Didn't know it then, but the streak would end, sadly. Very badly too.
Went down to brownless to study and NaNoWriMo.
Decided to skip climbing. Too much to do man:(.
Tapaoed dinner from EK. $4 leftovers.
Heated it up in the hobohut. And it was terrible. The food tasted a little spoilt or something, and there wasn't nearly enough meat. It was shit. Worst dinner in a long time man. Damn.
Made pancakes too, but that was pretty lousy too:(
Went to frank tate with winson to study. Stayed late, till 4.
Time to sleep now.
End:5:10 AM
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Thursday, November 04, 2010
On:4:29 AM
Wow, I've been having very good, very satisfying meals lately man.
Last night's pancakes were simply awesome, as I might've mentioned already.
Then my next meal was this afternoon's lunch at Bluefire Churrascaria. One of those brazilian places where they slice the meat onto your plate. It was buffet, and it was pretty darn fantastic. Well, some of the meat could've been better, but I was generally very satisfied.
NaNoWriMo afternoon was quite productive. Frank tate reading room's a nice place to sit down and be creative. I've got quite a bit more of the story to tell man, but to tell it well is always an issue. And then there's the time pressure.
Started working on philo a bit late. Felt tired and all.
Left frank tate (by this time winson and I had moved to the collaborative space opposite) at 9.40 to attend a small birthday greeting at William's place. They got the dog cake again, like they did ariel's birthday hahaha. Good to see the bunch again. Miss their company.
Came back, winson and I went down to subway and then I decided not to get anything because abraham was planning to go get kebabs later hahaha. There's no way I can turn down Flemington kebabs man.
We recongregated at the old engineering building. I was mildly productive, but I'm not very sure what my main argument can be. Shall prob argue that neuroscience don't mean that religious experiences aren't divine, or something. But I dunno. Was with sokshin, yimei, winson and abraham, and we were distracted with each other's company quite a few times. Gah.
Then we went to flemington for kebabs:D Awesome awesome. Three great meals. Yess.
Now, sleep!
End:4:44 AM
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Wednesday, November 03, 2010
On:4:38 AM
Morning are for sleeping.
Afternoons for NaNoWriMo.
Evenings for study.
It's all good:D
Mundane Details:
Got up at 12.50. Slept well, but didn't feel like it was enough.
Fried rice felt like it was gonna go. Fried it and tasted a little better. I think it's just the bok choy.
Worked on novel in the afternoon.
Drove down to city in evening cuz Chanel wanted to practise driving once more. Had awesome pancakes for dinner. Seriously, lost in food, man. From now on, if I ever eat the Cheese Kranskys, I MUST REMEMBER to add the maple syrup. So good.
Worked at frank tate after that. Completed about 1.8 mindmaps worth of lectures. Or 1.8 lectures worth of mindmaps, rather.
Stayed till 2ish. It was nice knowing I didn't have to cycle back:P
Had a good conversation with my brother over gchat on writing and stuff.
Time for me to sleep now.
End:4:42 AM
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Tuesday, November 02, 2010
On:3:51 AM
I'm feeling strangely motivated. Thanks to NaNoWriMo. Motivated about various things, including novel writing and study material. I feel incredibly productive, and I could be even more so.
I spent the afternoon today working on my first thousand or so words. Initially, I was still playing around with the quarter-baked ideas that I was generating from the previous night. And then sometime this early afternoon I finally reached an idea I was somewhat satisfied with, and went with that. It is somewhat inspired by Y: The Last Man, and is about a person who wakes up and turns out to be the last human being on Earth. I have a few theories as to how people can be wiped from the surface of the Earth, and haven't really decided on any one of them yet.
Anyway, it was a good afternoon writing. Had to leave for Joe's farewell party around 6plus.
It was a nice and chilled party. There was barbecue, and I helped myself to quite a bit quite shamelessly, invoking no. 1 at the same time.
Had a good time catching up with Joe, and Alice, and other nice random people I've never met before.
Went to frank tate to do some philo readings after that. Was...mildly productive. At least, I didn't feel unproductive.
Alright, tmr shall be another awesome day of writing and stuff:D
End:3:58 AM
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Monday, November 01, 2010
On:5:07 AM
I'm not sure if I know what I've gotten myself into man. I've been up the past 5 hours trying to work on my novel, and I haven't got any solid ideas yet. Argh.
Anyway, today I woke up nice and happy at 10.30. Fried some rice for my meals. Thanks to stella who got me some minced pork yesterday.
Went down to city around 3ish cuz Chanel wanted to practise her driving. Herbert Sherbert's awesome, I say.
Did a wee bit of reading at the hobohut after that, and then had dinner, dressed up, and headed down to uni with chanel and winson. Chanel wasn't wearing a mask so she was understandably embarrassed.
My glasses started to really fog up on the way to uni, and so I couldn't really see what was going on. Frank Tate was full, so we went to brownless.
Held on to the mask (other than a brief take-off when we were in FT) till a lil past 12am, when both winson and chanel said that it's been long enough. Hahaha.
Was slightly awkward when going to the toilet.
Stayed at brownless till about...2ish? Yea. Then drove back.
It was fun though, wearing that skull-mask. I wanna do it next year:P Can get bloody hot though.
End:5:17 AM
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Saturday, October 30, 2010
On:11:58 PM
Brain dump. This should be a daily brain dump.
Gah, not much happened today. I suspect I'll just copy and paste this entry to my blog, seeing what time it is now and that I plan to go to bed soon. Haha gotta unscrewify my body clock man. Got up at 2.40pm. I don't know when's the last time I got up this late, if at all.
In terms of productivity, I suppose today has been quite shit. But I don't feel too bad about it.
Yea so I woke up to the sound of rain outside. It was so very nice to sleep. And I could tell through the spaces between the window blinds that it was super cloudy and that this rain would probably last the whole darn day. I was right, and it's still kinda rainy drizzling out there right now.
And so in bed, I decided that today was gonna be a stay-home day haha. I mean, I really didn't want to cycle out i this weather, and yea, I was generally feeling lazy too. I was looking for a day I could just nuah at home, and looks like today's the day!
I got up so late, but I wasn't feeling particularly guilty. But I sorta saw this as a chance to use whatever bit of guilt I had to do the things that were highly overdue. Like picking up the clothes pile on the floor.
It grew a bit last night cuz I brought in the laundry and just dumped everything on the floor. And so this afternoon I sorted them out, and folded some clothes while hanging the rest. Also ironed the shirts I had, along with Abraham's shirt that is still in my possession.
Mmm, I don't think I'm doing too good for time. In terms of my study schedule. Cuz I still have this big God & Natural Sciences essay due in almost exactly a week's time, and I have yet to choose a question. Not to mention two major psych subjects to study for.
I think I'm just afraid to admit it, but this 750words isn't really the best thing as a blog. I mean, to read things in chronological order I will have to read through every single entry per page. There's no way to read a series of entries in one page. But then again, this was how my diary-x blog was, wasn't it? So I don't really know what I'm complaining about.
So anyway yea, I did read a passage or two from the God Delusion excerpt in the reader. I doubt I'd do the Richard Dawkins questions. There are other questions out there that interest me slightly more, and I should decide on one soon. Perhaps before I sleep, I'll choose one. I was supposed to get this done 2 weeks ago, but yes, it hasn't been done. Nvm, it just means that I have to work twice as hard now.
This afternoon I was also looking through the re-enrolment process. The study plan initially looked confusing, but it made more sense as I explored it a bit. I'm a bit scared now that it's clear that for Honours admission they'll be looking at my third level subjects, which includes the Asian and Comparative Philosophy subject which I did for my breadth, right? I got a 78 for that I think, and that's not baaaddd but it can drastically reduce my chances for honours. And they'll only count about 20% of my second level psych subjects. I shall aim to do exceptionally well for this, but for a moment or two I had my doubts whether the effort I put into this will be worth the extra marks that I'll get. But what am I saying, of course it will!
That time during the last psych tutorial, so many people in class knew the answers to the MCQ quiz. It scares me. Well, I'll have to do my best for the exam man. If I'm not wrong, it's all MCQ all the way, and so...well...should be doable. I can only hope. Can theoretically get 100% la yea.
And next year I'm going to have to find some second level science subjects to fill the gap. I don't know maan. Continue with earth science, perhaps? Hmmm. Hope I didn't screw myself over somehow or something. But should be ok la yah? I don't know man.
Anyway alright, I'm still not done with the reenrolment process just yet. Gonna leave that for another day.
Dinner was bakuteh, prepared by stella. Was very happy to join them for that. Very fitting meal for a rainy day. Along with tea eggs, wow man, that was a really really good meal.
Alright then, this shall go into my blog!End:12:00 AM
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On:4:35 AM
Gargh, I foresee my days in uni consisting of study study study. That sentence doesn't sound very...good, but oh well.
Had a very good night's sleep last night. Got up at 10.30, made a meal in 45mins (roast wings and stir-fried veggie and rice) and left the house.
Met sokshin, abraham and winston for a run. Some others were invited too but they pangseh haha.
My right shin still kinda aches, though I'd like to think it's slowly healing. Went for a one-round brisk walk, doing some pull-ups intermittently.
Had lunch at south lawn with food bough from union house. I ate the meal I prepared earlier. Was joined by yimei who brought mooncakes. Twas awesome. Chanel also dropped by after her coffee from seven seeds.
Then I joined boonhan at the Spot to study. It was quite a nice place. My first time working there. Might go back there again sometime.
Went for dinner at yingthai. Twas good. Sokshin says my green curry's better but this batch of yingthai curry was pretty good and so I don't think so. Not being humble please. This curry was noticeably sweeter, though.
The tomyamgoong was nice and spicy.
Man, wouldn't mind some right now hahaha.
Then went to old engineering building (thanks to our engineer friend) and studied all the waaayyy till like 3.
The room we were at could've had better ventilation. But oh well:P
Now, g'night!
End:4:45 AM
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Friday, October 29, 2010
On:2:13 AM
Alright, it seems like I have a few day's worth of blogging to do. But because I value sleep very highly, I shall be brief.
Tuesday:
Attended GNS lecture first time this half-semester
Otherwise quite unproductive while in Frank Tate. Managed 4/5 feedback task questions.
Wednesday:
Hendrick's halloween themed birthday party.
Carved our own pumpkin.
Awesomeness.
Went to frank tate, got unproductive.
Thursday:
Stayed over at hobohut.
Attended final GNS tutorial.
Final Cog Psych lecture.
Final psych tutorial.
Made chicken rice with hobohutters.
Eczema was a bitch, itched my arms and ate my sleep.
Went climbing, wasn't that good today. Got ambitious and attempted a few 18s. Couldn't complete a single one.
End:2:18 AM
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Tuesday, October 26, 2010
On:3:50 AM
Damnit, really oughta go sleep now. No time.
Prac exam today was shit. Couldn't tell some of the rocks, and was unclear about this strange vague fossil set in some shale-y thing.
Went to frank tate in evening to study, but was totally unproductive. It was quite sad:/
There was also someone stinking up the reading room. Winson thankfully found space in the room opposite.
End:3:52 AM
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Monday, October 25, 2010
On:4:16 AM
Was having a nice breakfast of 1 cinnamon raisin bagel, with scrambled eggs and tea and poppyseed cake. And then Chanel called for brunch at Dead Man Espresso, cuz Carine was suggesting that we all head out for brunch on Sunday.
Took me about 10 seconds to decide but I did eventually decide to go. Should be saving money but oh well, I foresaw good company.
While cycling there, my left shoe fell out somewhere along this road and King's way. Good thing the traffic light was in my favour, such that my biggest worry was how stupid I must've looked. Was wearing the blue slightly oversized shoes that I hadn't worn in awhile la. That, and loose socks. Didn't help.
Brunch was awesome. We chilled there for a good 3 hours or so. Only part of the production crew were there tho (carine, chanel, kangwei (with jan)). That's like......like Friday but replacing boonhan with carine.
Anyway, Carine had submitted her thesis last week, or two weeks ago or something and so haha, congrats to her! She apparently still has assignments left but I suppose the bulk of her work's done already.
We also saw a caterpillar land on the table, and watched it crawl around.
The coffee was great, as expected.
Went down to frank tate (but not before dropping by baillieu to steal some mooncakes from sokshin) but saw that it was waaayy too crowded (it's SUNDAY guys!! but then again yea, pot calling kettle black), and so went to the hobohut. Winson was very kind to move down to the living room to study too.
By the way, I'm actually quite enjoying studying UPE now leh:|. Hmm. I suppose I should've just put more effort into understanding it? Hahaha. Now that more of the concepts make sense, it's a lot...easier. somewhat. Now I can only hope I can remember stuff.
It's a strange feeling because earlier tonight I was feeling quite confident that I'd make it, in that I'd finish studying what I wanted to. But in some other way, more realistically, I was kinda expecting myself not to too. But at the end of the night, I felt strangely confident. Hmm.
Had indomie at the hobohut for supper before heading home. I'm gonna miss that place next year:/
End:4:25 AM
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Sunday, October 24, 2010
On:12:54 AM
Waaaaahh. Damn lazy la today.
Woke up at 1ish.
Ate bagels.
Good bagels.
Saw that junshen had discovered my blog. Hello, man. I don't know why the smileys don't work, but someday I'll have to replace this aging layout (it's been around for about 4 years now) and hopefully things will be readable again:P. But like I said, it's not like you're missing out on much.
I was pretty much a slob the whole day. Took me awhile before I could pull myself outta the house and do some grocery shopping.
Restocked my chocolate stash. I wonder, does chocolate have like, cumulative negative health effects? Because if it doesn't, I'm gonna be very happily keeping up this lifestyle man. Hmm.
Made some pasta for dinner. And then Adam came into the kitchen with HAGGIS. Hahaha omg, my first time seeing a true blue haggis. And I very happily joined them in eating it. Today's a special day for that reason man. My first experience with haggis.
It's also quite special because today's the first day I've cooked with eggplant. After denouncing my revulsion to eggplant some time ago (after Mrs Parma's, and that japanese eggplant miso thing, and the melanzana pizza at lucky coq), I have finally decided to actually make a dish with eggplant. This is a sign that I have thrown away most of my avoidance of eggplants. This shows that people can, in fact, change. Yes.
Alright, that's pretty much all I have to say today. This shall be copied to my blog.End:12:55 AM
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