The joy of giving and receiving
The joy of hearing my friends receiving the stuff i sent across the land or ocean is as uplifting as seeing stuff in my mailbox from my friends and family :)
My "half-twin" flo received it on the same day as i received it! hehe :D THANKS BABE!! waiting for u n jiaying to come to NY! and hopefully ithaca too! :) how about watching a broadway together too? hehe.
and somehow, i was near tears as i opened the package from my parents. so sweeeeet of them :)
i did 6 hr of lab today!! went for my usual 8am lab plus another makeup lab in the afternoon, cuz i got 0% yield in my prev exp. >_< 6hr sounds daunting, but i didn't feel that shagged or sianed during the labs, surprisingly. maybe lab work is gradually becoming a part of me, the prospective chem major? :P
btw, i chipped my condenser slightly and had to replace it, and it freaking costs 23 bucks!! daylight robbery!
after lab, received a call from one of my closer friends i made in class last sem, asking me to go n paint spore's flag at this flags-painting event (kickstarting Cornell's World Culture Day). Couldn't bear the thought tt no one is going to paint the spore flag, so i turned ard n walked back to campus, and this friend whom i bumped into on my way there, who's oso a sporean exchange girl, gamely accompanied me there. was quite fun painting the flag lor! felt good 'contributing' my little part to my country haha. and we got to befriend this Taiwanese grad student who's really nice and easy to talk to (we were conversing in mandarin!) and who is going for a job interview with NUS for a professor post soon!! we were both psycho-ing him to come to spore to work hehe.
but because of this flag-painting event, couldn't make it in time for my ballroom dance technique class... quite wasted. so i decided to go along with shanon and joshua to play badminton! short play, but fun!
i really miss screaming with 6a girls during pe games lor. and laughing like mad women in LTs. lol. haiz the good old jc days, when we still 10-ish years old. haha.
oh i decided to give myself a birthday treat by extending my weekend hoho. (fyi, my weekend is, strictly speaking, fri afternoon to sat night) so Sat i will go for my last snowboarding class, as usual. then Sun, i will go on the 'ski trip' organised by my dorm, to learn how to ski!! :D the catch is, weather forecast for sat and sun is
10 deg celcius. rmb the m.p. of H2O? :/
hehe, seems like i have learnt to relax more and embrace the joy of mugging less and playing more ONCE again! eh, this was what i was like during the 1st half of my 1st sem lor. what happened to me this sem? is it just me or just my current courses?
in any case, it's 3am now, ought to be revising my essay tonight, but my prof extended the deadline upon some requests, so i lost my motivation to revise it tonight. some (BAD) habits just don't change huh... sighz -__-
Living in a town with only one decently big and accessible-by-bus shopping mall has drove me to lean toward online shopping! unlike in spore, the lack of variety, the infrequent visits to the mall, and the lack of means of comparing prices result in imperfect knowledge, hence i tend to overbuy expensive goods or underbuy goods that i really need or like, thus not consuming at the optimal level. but shoppping online is different! i can compare prices within a few clicks and only go for the best deals, and almost everything is sold online. i bought 5 items online within the past 2 weeks la, in the name of my Utah backpacking trip, but ya "name" only la... :P
of course the downside is u can't try the products on personally. so everything is dependent on my own
agar-ation. and so i usually just play safe and go for conservative colors and/or designs. haha.
christina just reminded me there are only 7 more weeks of lessons for this sem! it somehow sounds a lot shorter when it is put this way, really.
oh i got an extra present from guess who? the ski resort where i am taking my snowboarding pe classes! freaking lucky to win an ipod in a lucky draw! dun ask me the details of my prize, haven't gone and collected it yet, only gotten an email. ahaha. my friend commented it is ard the cost of my pe course so i "zhuan4 hui2 lai2" liao.. but wait. i didn't pay for my pe course in the first place! (joel, don't jump at me pls. :P)
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