Saturday, September 30, 2006
suffocating co2 sighs
- don't know. not sure if I wish I knew.***
it's the last day of a long weekend of fun (nothing that ginseng tea can't cure).
happy birthday, china! fireworks last night, we headed down and stood around like how we NEVER would back home. the crowd was worth braving, though. showers, sprinkles, explosive shrapnel glittering. i've never been this close to the site of a fireworks showcase, and now i must say this is a completely audio-visual treat. i loved the ritatatathudthudthud that upsets the usual hearta-lubdub.
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forecasts of FIRE possibilities, so i'm thinking it's almost sunny enough for a beachy day, hur. maybe i'll bring my laptop along just in case starr hall really burns.
(on a sidenote,
(side side: i'm trying really hard to be coherent today, just check these paragraphs out)
it's pathetic the only thing i want from my room in case of fire is my stupid computer. that would logically mean i feel my computer is an extension of, and just like me. not too far from the truth. this thing is fully functional, but i am so sick of it, and would do very well with a whole new self.)
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anyway, went for my first yoga class the other day. i can do the cross legged thing on one tipped-toe. well, my right ankle is weaker than the left though. might this be an indication of my yoga genius?
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this wallpaper replaces my timetable, which i have yet to memorise even after three weeks, so going to class just got a little harder, i guess.
note the exclamation mark! it says everything i feel about the film.
evelyn at 11:32 PM
Friday, September 29, 2006
this week i fell in love with mcvites and this crazy ginger candy.mcvites: every night i go to bed smiling at the thought of greeting them soundlessly at breakfast.
ginger candy: like rabbit sweets with a guna melaka kick!
where have i been all these years?!
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today i was about to make mars bar tiramisu, but the more i shopped for the ingredients the dodgier my recipe sounded ("finely chopped mars"), plus mascarpone'd cost my fruit budget for the next three days, so we went with oreo pudding instead.
only that my taste testers thought it was.. black sesame..... paste.
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next week i'll start mugging for real. i really will. no more fooling around skipping swimming lacrossing then staying up feeling like king AND then crashing the next day and gobbling up everything in sight, including other people's tasty wraps. NO WAY.
evelyn at 6:56 AM
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
sweet heavens, it is over. i need a deity to thank.evelyn at 12:13 AM
Saturday, September 23, 2006
well well. i've been told to pen more thoughts here. it's not that i don't want to, just that it's a little difficult to construct strings of consciousness.. which then precisely wouldn't be what i hold them out to be.we've been musing about growing up and thinking further, but who knows? / here goes / trusting desire, starting to learn / walkin' through fire without a burn
(haha. that's for you, teddy! was typing, "growing up and thinking further, but-" and about to continue with something like ".. in spite of all this thinking we try to do we must concede most of the decision is out of our hands." when that duet from RENT came on. RENT!!! (of all things.))
drives me to the conclusion (and halfway up the wall) that my iTunes is more poetic than i am.
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ey missy. people say this a lot around here, missy missy.
for all these "around here" and the unsaid "back home" comparisons, living in hk obviously isn't all that different. notice how i don't even bother specifying the activity (studying, or not)? being here is far from unpleasant though, right here where the pace of life is raffles-place-underpass-at-8.55am EVERYWHERE, i'm all peaced out. it's the sneaky reassurance that grades don't count.. which makes me the happiest camper. please don't be offended, i hope that didn't come out like an exchange brag and this doesn't sound like an overcompensatory disclaimer.
but it's cool, not like i expected to be culturally shocked and readjusted hur. not really slacking off either, the subject material can be quite interesting, although i wonder why i came here expecting to be wowed by the teaching.
nono, i don't mean WOW i'm coming to hku and the profs are great!, but more, WOW now i'm on exchange my perspectives are about to be flipped over no matter which prof, even if he is crap woahhhhh academic-excitement here i comeeeeeee.
there are good schooldays and lousy ones, but it's far easier to keep positive when stressfree. thanks for reading, this is the point i've helped you miss:
that working hard is okay, working stressed is not.
i think i may have precipitated a quarterlife crisis.. ha ha. teds this is all your fault, thinking is such a curse.
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lift-rush loci. no matter what kind of a hair-flying hurry you are in, it's just not cool to make everyone else already impatient to be lifted elsewhere wait.
oops now i sound petty! well. it's not a pet peeve or anything, more a reminder to hairfly-hurrying-in-hongkong self.
evelyn at 7:01 PM
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
it's close to two and very quiet. a little happy, a little sad, mostly because it's difficult to have one without the other, fraternal twinnings as they are. funny how Happy's still happy although Sad's dead and past.***
it's close to two and very quiet. i've been fully initiated into the hall life, last night laundry was tumbling at half past.
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seizing every hour! busy days to come, yum.
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i have kickass new earphones - that came with my electric fan radio-scanning fan.
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snitched the les choristes soundtrack off someone's tunes a little less than a week back. every time i put it on i think of jh going on about how she saw it with chorale (? did you my dear? was that one of the rare occasions?) and how everyone fell in love with the show (or was it the music?) together. wow, it's been a whole olympics cycle.. and then some.
evelyn at 10:51 AM
Monday, September 18, 2006
hurhur this is malory towers come true. I AM DARRELL RIVERS! one day i will do a splendid jump/swoooop-the ball-into-my-net-in-smug-satisfaction! one day i will knickknocktackle SPAR the opponent's sorry cradling of the little rubber ball!L.A.C.R.O.S.S.E.
hahahha shit am such a sorry exchange student. i have no travel plans, no cool foreign friends and no awesome architecture. but i think after tonight i will die happy. need to read malory towers again again.
aaaaaaaaahhhhh so happyyy.
evelyn at 9:28 AM
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
(mmm but hey resisting change isn't the way to go at all, so i'm finding out this morning after blogger hung on me last night and firefox didn't crash! and even if everything looks uglier.)***
the neat freak in me hates my room now. my bed is made and STILL nothing looks neat. so tempted to snip & spike so there won't be all these stray hairy strands littering my floor, but let's not be rash..
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weather talk amuses me to no end, mostly because in singapore it really is all hot air, while here (to me) it makes real conversation. that, of course, has to do mostly with my ignorance.
"oh.. cold front.. mmm.. brr."
this is what my hku portal tells me today (guess this school just tells it like it is, as opposed to fancy nexus-like-schmaxus):
yeah, we're rained in but school's suspended only when the warning goes up to black tropical cyclone signal no. 8 (now at three) cool beans right, except now i can't skip orienthings since.. i'll am stuck here. heehee. oh well.
evelyn at 8:50 PM
hello!today i went for my second proper class. (the first i decided not to add.) intro to conflicts. nice.
today i also found my way around alone quite a lot. well mostly i got lost, but nothing is impossible with a little time.
today there was a level 1 typhoon warning, it was crazy windy so i had to tuck my waterproof file under my arm while fighting to keep my yellow tartan umbrella, Uterus, in my grip. and my skirt on me.
today i went for the school's choir practice! it was cool enough. they aren't half bad, they want the same long vowels and although i can't understand specifically what they say it's easy to get the gist of things. it's all music after all. getting there was a roundabout adventure, and i liked it enough to sign up for dinner next week (not sure why one would need to SIGN up for these things..) but now i realise they'll kick me out for poor 50%-only attendance. so it's just too bad i prefer that tuesnight ADR class!
tonight i'm just slacking in my room! it's raining so we panned the jogging plans in favour of flora-ho gymming tomorrow. the buildings here are ALL named after some person or the other and it's mildly annoying, cos i can't seem to remember the non-english names and i refuse to admit have gotten too anglicised along the way (how could that be possible??????????) but names like hsu long sing building took me forever to learn.... so. shucks.
I MISS MIDDLE EASTERN FOOD. although i've only had it once.
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well, since i am so free. more accurately, i miss having middle eastern!
the weather's been lovely. i must be made for the cold. stupidly, the layers come off as temperatures dip - today i was reluctant to bring my jacket out, although good sense eventually won out.
i am in the midst of migrating to mozilla after two years with safari. i hate having to sift through my bookmarks. the process of trashing them is particuarly distasteful. if i didn't have to move i'd just leave them be (to rot, or not) but now i have to think. and decide.
evelyn at 8:05 AM
Thursday, September 07, 2006
hello! arrived in about one piece. lemme plug fred die's space, crux-gemmata@blogspot. i might put a link up.. later.haha i've been a little underwhelmed but i think that's because school hasn't yet begun. right now i feel like a local-acting tourist acting touristy. cos for some odd reason i don't feel the urge to go hit every spot even though i haven't been here before!
yut yee sum sei mmgm loke tzup bput ngou sup - i guess i can count to ninetynine, not hundred. language handicaps are, obviously, crippling. it's so impossible to be polite. how then does one express the likes of "excuse me", "thank you", "if you don't mind", "oh let me willingly hand all my money over", and "no that is of no trouble at all"?
my room overlooks the.. pretty sea. hur. i'll find out which. but, yeah, it's quite a view i've got.
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it feels like we've been here longer than just three days, and i'm glad to report i've shaken off the blues. honks is growing on me. sl..oo..w...ly. to my greatest relief. everything seems better the second time around.
sick of cantonese fare haha miss the siglap meepokkkkkkk that i missed.
okie i'm having fun! manymany thanks to freddie, who has been good-natured about his a year-long holiday with me and who has a new pet, Terry Turtle. me, i have a spanking new umbrella, Uterus. Some things just can't be shared. and a pair of happy jeans! R.I.P, old denims! no more shopping.
laundry's challenging my attention. till the next time.
evelyn at 3:08 AM