warped weather.

monday morning first week of school was a blast. of course lessons weren't exactly in full swing but hey, it's always nice to be able to ease back into the mindset and momentum of studying. paintball on saturday was a blast. i've never played in a more challenging field before with so many tactically sound people (think highly trained army people on both teams).

the weather this past week is erratic and annoying. it rains a bit, has warm rays of sun a bit and then rains some more. thankfully the weather held during paintball. this coming week looks set to be more of the same: rain-sun-rain-sun-rain... in spite of the possible negative temperatures, i seem to enjoy it (without the rain of course) and am still going about in my windbreaker, berms, berks and tshirt. ha!

my timetable is proving to be unforgiving this semester, not that i did not expect that. first assignments are already done and there are more to come. i'm actually looking forward to a few of them, save for the math-like course that i'm taking.

this semester is also packed with activities thanks to ssa and the high commission. there's a national day reception coming up on the 10th, about 2 or 3 more ssa activities before the ssa night before the agm to conclude the semester. i'm also in the midst of preparing for a performance for singapore community day 09 to be held here in canberra. the band's expanded to have 10 people now, to include more vocalists but essentially, the musicians remain the same.

then there are other activities to partake in, international ball (and the afterparty) this coming weekend, the ski/snowboarding trip, interhall volleyball and touch rugby.

busy and exciting semester ahead.. loving it for now.

on a separate note, it's a joke that we'd rather support liverpool/man utd instead of our national team.. it's THAT hilarious, amusing and yet distasteful all at the same time.

sigh.

thursday morning see? i'm still awake. anyway, thought i'd share this, a piece of tragic news. i can't imagine the trauma the girl is going though now. my gosh... ranks almost as sad as how a few years back, a tour bus crashed along the north-south highway and a girl was the only surviving member of her family. how cruel life can be sometimes eh?

insomniac.

thursday morning this is bad. i'm not sleeping as early as i hope to nor can i sleep fast enough. for 3 nights in a row, i lie on my bed and roll around for a good 1 to 2 hours before eventually falling asleep.

aargh.

ultimate waste of time.

tuesday morning someday, youtube, twitter and facebook will merge to form the ultimate waste of time website.. youtwitface

conan o'brien. loving the way he's hosting the tonight show.

back to the books.. pfft.

winter break.

monday morning right. it's been a month since i last wrote. the holidays were pretty short considering that i ended on the 2nd last day of the examinations period. in some ways it was a wasted trip but i'd rather think of it as one that was worth the pain (literally) and money spent.

reached singapore on friday night and spent it at home before hanging out with my parents on saturday and sunday. met up with the egarage people on monday to watch transformers where a lengendary joke was born (shut up your face) thanks to a group of indian kids who were trying to act old and be cool.

then! tuesday came along as did a fever, peaking at 39.8. went to see a doctor and we decided that i should go to CDC to get tested for h1n1 just in case. i wasted and suffered for a good 4 hours before a doctor saw me and flatly said "i think you're a fit healty young man, so you just go home and rest". wow.. okay. i found out the next day that they had me registerred as an NSMan doing my in-camp despite me writing on all the forms that i was studying overseas. so much for accurate information.

thus started the one week home quarantine where i literally almost went insane because of boredom. with that done, the first day of freedom i had again was the same day my results came out. it was plain frustration and disappointment with one particular module. it was absurd the more i thought about it and exchanged emails with my lecturer. but that's that. the fact remains that there is nothing i can do about it and i should just look to the future.

it was a mad rush to "make up for lost time" and so, i was pretty much out most of the time. my flight was brought forward from sunday night to thursday night and so i was back in canberra by friday afternoon. the not-too-bitter cold was a welcome change over the humidity of singapore.

the time back so far has been all about readjusting to the timing, the weather and the food. did a bit of jogging, tennis and poker (yeah, i finally learnt how to play it) the past two days with some friends.

this semester looks set to be the toughest yet. timetable looks shit and even though i only have two modules with exams to sit for, they are enough to kill me so, i guess we'll see what happens.

it's back to the shithole (hah) and the start of my final year of studies begins.