okiie this is the beautiful paris entry =) *smiles* naturally i'll have deleted all the fat-looking photos.. hehehe.

we arrived at charles de gaulle terminal 2 on thurs evening =) settled in hotel de bellevue and went out in search of sacre coeur......and then moulin rouge (of course)! in the red light district. where people tried selling us tix to watch stuff like lapdancing. do i look like i like to watch sexy girls dancing? dots.

had a lovely dinner and slept!
woke up early on fri to go disneyland. haha i'm so childish. but i do love it!

of cos i took a zillion photos (though i shall not horrify everyone and put everything up here -- fret not, i'll upload to my online photo album soon! err including like last year's photos o_O i haven't had timeeee!) and a million ridess =) like the buzz lightyear one where u shoot evil aliens.
i could go on and on about disneyland and the disney studio (we went to both parks!) but paris is more interesting than that... the clock struck 7pm everything closed and we left for the disney village where we had dinner, before rushing off to the louvre to see it at night =) no slim photos so skip the louvre at night =P
slept in on sat despite all our grand plans, and headed off for arc de triomphe...
...and then to the all famous eiffel tower!
then to ecole militaire..
then to where napoleon's tomb is.... a very distinctive landmark.. the golden dome....

and i noe i should resist putting this is cos it's irrelevant but it's the most exqusitely carved chocolate... choc cows, choc babies, choc froggies. so cute and so realistic! and so costly of course =P paris has the loveliest shops, i can't possibly put down all these photos regrettably! went to a jardin (garden, more like park actually) for lunch, watch little kids sail small wooden boats in the fountain. enjoy a bit of the sun! savour the baguette and feed little sparrows. it was the jardin next to the royal palais but the photos aren't significant enough...
next we went to the pantheon... (strange how italy has one too o_O)

then to notre dame!! which i very clearly remember going few years back...


then we walked down the river seine, and sat down at yet another jardin o_O have some lovely photos of the river and its bridges but none with me inside. dot. and by chance we saw the cruise that brought me down the river few years back! i actually have a photo of it but nvm. and we went back to the louvre! it was lovely at sunset. i look fat in all the photos but how can i not put the louvre down! so here goes... (without me of cos)

went to jardin du tuilleries (i'm making up all the french... basically it means garden of tulips i think. lala) and place de la concorde and we took a photo of eiffel at sunset which is nice... and i insisted that we should wait and see the eiffel tower when it's litted up at night, cos it's glittery and alarming! so we waited by the river (and in the cold) for about an hour or so, and just as we left, the tower twinkled.

saw the grand palais and the petit palais. right opposite each other and honestly, about the same size? haha! then walked down the famous champs elysee and saw the louis vutton departmental store, yes, all 4 storeys of it. well of course i din buy anything. i'm a poor student remember?
next day woke up early again to go to the palace of versailles where we queued for an hour for the ticket, and then an hour to actually ENTER o_O which is absolutely retarded. but well worth it. the jardin was a forest. not that it's unkempt or anything but it's humongous. it's like singapore sized. ok i'm exaggerating...the following is one tiny part of it.. see how far it stretches.

the palace was amazingly grand and contained TONS (as in literally tons) of silver. much of the furniture in the palace was made of pure silver and weighed a few hundred kg. but the pictures will bore u cos we couldn't actually take much, photography being prohibitted. interdit!
took the metro back, walked along the river and i saw a one-man band! he's really cool, so we gave him some coins. and lo and behold, we walked back to the louvre. it's haunting us i tell u. anw, we walked and passed by this gorgeous chocolate shop. i mean GORGEOUS. like a tiny box of pates de fruits cost like 37euros i'm not kidding. try palm-sized box.
we went to the royal opera house, and some touristy attraction building (which i can't remember what it's called) near our place.
slept
went back to sacre coeur the last morning! it was then i realised that's where huiyan and i got cheated the last time. evil black people were still there trying to cheat me again!!! lucky i'm smarter this time and escaped their evil clutches.

and i took photos of a bunch of people in the midst of being cheated. thing is, they tie your hand with a friendship band and then demand money from u, and not just coins, mind u. notes. i.e. at least 5 euros. and they are big, many and scary so most people just give in. don't!
saw 2 moulin rouge windmill in the back streets, forgotten but are truly part of moulin rouge, enroute to montmatre cemeterie. which is honestly amazing. they look like little houses and chapels from afar, but they aren't. they house dead people :S

went to hotel de ville. which had a funfair going on in the square in front of it. and they mounted a huge fake igloo in front which destroyed the aura of the building.

and then we went for our last meal in paris... MUSSELS =) hehe!

then there're a few photos of me and some churches and then a carousel and then we went to shop at the train station before heading to the airport at last. back to edinburgh.

.. and of course, the insane turbulence greeted us as the pilot tried to land, the flight was like scarier than any ride i'd taken in paris. and blustery winds tried to sweep us off our feet as the pelting drizzle (how does that work!) welcomed us back to home sweet home. haha!

xin's blog is not as neglected as people have accused me of...
haha.. well.. barring the fact that the photo is like from at least a year ago.. and my chatterbox is gone due to bad id o_O and my links are like not updated at all. and blah and blah and blah.
well barring all that, my last entry was like (oh shit i forgot it's march already, so NOT) within the month. is it really march already? gosh.
erps.. so anw haven't been doing that much, it's the post stressful essay period =) catching up on my daily dose of TV or downloaded programmes at any rate. i've re-watched kurosagi and nobuta wo produce!! in the pretext of preparing for my japanese speech yesterday! i spoke on singapore - DUH! it's quite a funny speech i thought. oh well. except i err forgot the conclusion paragraph and spent 1 whole minute gaping at the audience. hahaa! and it was basically about the weather. i must have been influenced by the Brits. haha. What with drinking tea every morning and discussing at length about the weather. but honestly the weather here is exceedingly fickle, u can probably write a 3000 word on it.. haha and i've handed in all my essays, can't believe it! lol. and all i'm doing now is offering my condolences to the poor ppl who still have essays. wheee¬ lala. shhh. i think kenny is doing his essay now.. and william.. all my flatmates in fact. HAHA.

i've blogged! tada¬

ohh i went to paris. disneyland! haha. reminds me just a little bit of jc times. at the arc de triomphe or at notre dame or down the river seine. it's so strange. haha. everything seems different. it's like now that i've lived in the europe region for 2 years, it's not that novel anymore i guess. compared to a few years back, when i was still young and innocent o_O haha and it was my first trip to europe and first trip with my friends.. so many firsts... and everything was grand and sunny it seemed. never noticed that europe had a tragically perpetual gloomy overcast sky... haha nor saw how alarmingly dirty the metro is. never saw the dark and dodgy alleys then either. everything was jsut amazing and fun and dream-like. haha. can't believe so much has changed since. never thought i'll return to paris jsut a few years later, and all by myself at that.. it's not that i dislike paris this time, it's just that my impression of paris then was like postcard-snapshots. pretty eiffel tower; pretty notre dame; pretty champs elysee. no meaning, no history, nothing attached to it, except that it's a pretty tourist attraction.

anyway shall go cook dinner now.. will upload some paris photos later as promisedd.. it's not as gloomy as i made out la.. i'm jsut being philosophical. ERRR. okk. i was just musing to myself... ok byeee =)

i can't remember when's the last time i blogged.
perhaps at a busy time, like now. haha. i tend to do lots of rubbish during times like this.
well actually all i have left to do now (thanks to the amazing lot of work i did last week) are 2 essays, one due in like two days' time, and the other one within the week.

i haven't done much this academic year. i'm beginning to feel like i've no life. it's not like i haven't been going out or doing things, but maybe i just haven't been going out as much! or meeting as many people as i used to! maybe i met too many people last year o_O i haven't been travelling either. i don't really know where to go and no one has been recommending any place to me. (except that EVERYONE wants to go to amsterdam for some obscure reason and i don't know who to go with) i wish blogger didn't have spell check. it annoys me i can't spell as i like without having some red squiggly line appearing. the weather's pretty good these days (these days when i'm holed up at home, gazing wistfully at the sunshine outside). it's quite cold but sunny. i'll love to go out. i'll even like jogging around arthur's seat i should think. it'll be a long time before i jog again i think. gah.

i caught the nutcracker last thursday! with huiyan! who's finally in scotland! and it's amazing!! like she's just a phone call or 20 mins' walk away. whee. and we can go jogging around arthur's seat, shopping along princes' st, breathing in cold scottish air together. and (i think hian liang has gotten the hang of the scottish accent - i think all you do is go down at the end of the sentence, i think mctay speaks quite like a scot)

i feel really lazy and depressed about my second essay, the one i haven't done, or started on really. just cos i put in so much effort for my first one, and i haven't had time to get a breather, and i'm forced to do so much reading on a totally different essay with writers from a totally different era, like a few centuries' apart, discussing the state of nature, civill society (no kidding, it's no typo that's how it's like with Hobbes) and the Commonweal. which of cos means the commonwealth i.e. the state. the wonderful spelling does not help a mote. and of cos i still don't understand what eudokien (or something like that) means and it's in the passage but it doesn't exist in any dictionary. so what should be the appropriate relation between society and state? is the state obliged to the society or the other way round? i think what i'm going to do first thing tomorrow is ring up all my IR friends who have time to listen to me, and ask them exactly that. and maybe i'll have an idea on how to do my essay. GRRR. mann thinking about reading just puts me off. i do hate this. eeee. i wish i had more time. i wish i could do exciting things and be exciting. i'm boring. i lead a boring life.

hiiiii again!
xinyi has yet again forgotten to blog or to go online for an infinitesimal long time.
thing is: we still don't have internet. we're still leaching off our neighbour.
haha!

essay due by end of dis mth!
essay due by start of nxt mth.
why's there so much work this yr?
it's insane. i swear! haha~
the medics seem to be having a good time this yr though.
yy n william are so much more free than i am. GRRRR.

miss u peeps.
were discussing muscials yesterday.
and william was like: les miserables is really good. go watch it.
and i was thinking how i should save that for u guyss to come over to the uk to watch =)

it's about 19 minutes before my tutorial starts
i'm at home, typing this.
yumyum.
it's so warm this weeek =) not that i'm complaining
i lvoe the clear blue skies and the warm sunshine!
last week was gross. haha.
in fact, today is as warm as this yr's summer was!!!! HAHA.

i wonder where my tutorial is. hmms.
gah. maybe i should go earlier and see like where it is.
it's 16 minsss left. byebyesss.

now that i'm back in cold old edinburgh. and boy, is it cold this autumn... even the scots wear coats in this disgusting chill.

currently i'm leaching off wireless from my neighbour. sHHHHHH. so it's laggy and stuff and i dun want to TRY uploading photos until absolutely necessary. and it's miserable to go online. seriously. checking my student account for last minute emails regarding timetables and stuff is miserable enough. but today the BT person will come to activate our line (which the previous tenant has kindly deactivated o_O) thank goodness there isn't that rumoured 125 pounds activation charge. i've spent quite a bit in my first week. my bedsheets and duvet cover cost like 20 pounds altogether. that's like $60 which can buy me up to 6 shirtss o_O it's sunny. i feel like suntanning in my room where it's warm thanks to the heater. which is abit strange but seems to be working. sorta.

i might be going for band tonight. if i can drag my lazy ass out of the house. scary.

i'm going to study international cooperation in europe and beyond (funky eh?), south asian studies 2A (which is like contemporary india - i get to watch bollywood films and discuss it - DAMn funky) and japanese 2A (my favourite naturally )

wonders if hy will read this but HEY i received ur letter. i love it . thankss. it made me feel like crying. so touchingg. AHH. and u're the first to post me a letter. love u *muackZZ*
PLUS i found this girl doing 160 credits meaning she's taking 8 modules spread out through the yr. about 4 per sem. so maybe hy can take 5 modules for a sem after all. she finds it alright. and she's doing like architecture and jap. it's mad. architecture is mad. i've another architecture fren and i never see her. like never. haha but i'll see her soon. maybe for like lunch or sth. surely architects need lunchess? HAHa.

take care everybody
and i love tsemin! take care shuai ge =P

haven't posted for a month.. doesn't seem like it.. and soon, i'll be back in edinburgh..
let's hope it'll be a gd yr..

honestly i haven't been blogging cos my life was -that- unexciting.
i complain abt the guys, and yet, it seems i'm the one who's living my life aimlessly. day after day of routine. a certain reluctance to get out of the house. disgusted at how fat i am everyday, and then, finding excuses not to run or swim everyday. i immerse myself in the world of tv dramas and fantasy novels, never thinking about my life, never doing the things i keep putting off. i'm like that. ever since i've moved (2 yrs ago) i haven't unpacked fully. i havne't thrown away my A-level stuff. all the trinkets i've accumulated over the past 2 decades. windchimes-mugs-photoframes-cards-letters-notes-postcards-souveniers-decorative pieces.
there's so much to do. pack what i need for next yr, check my bank account, ensure my house will be there before i return... i duno what else.

ok i think i'm just a bit emo cos of the show hy lent me.. it's good really. i'm just emo. maybe it's late and maybe cos i've been so carelessly drifting for the past year?maybe longer?

i duno what exactly i gleaned from the show. i just know it made me cry a lot - every time someone dies. haha so embarrassing but it's true. i duno why either. really i dun. but the show makes u think. sometimes it's not as easy as having a win-win situation, or even having a win-lose situation. i guess i never considered this: a lose-lose situation. what do u do then? hy n px would noe what i'm talking about i guess. what do u do if u're a fireman who has to save fires to prevent more people from dying, and in aiming to do so, u have to neglect all the wounded & vulnerable all around u, whom u noe u can save should u choose to stop and send them to the hospital. but what if u can't, cos u noe there's a fire waiting for u to be saved, houses to be destroyed should u but hesitate a second. duno if i'm making sense.. guess u guys gotta watch the show.. it's a jap drama 'emergency room 24 hours'.

today's my dad's bday! happy birthday. i duno why i've never noticed him being so happy before. i think he's like that every yr. just a simple cake, a few handmade cards, and presents all in the same wrapper, a simple song, just the 5 of us. and he smiles like it's the best thing that ever happened to him. maybe i ought to be more observant...

i don't think i can slp tonight.. i just wish someone would keep me company...

whee i revived my chatterbox. in case anyone wants to tag me =) hehe. make me feel popular. whee.
mann. i feel a little retarded. i tink my vocabulary has shrunk to a point after spending a sunday with the boys. it was a byebyeduyang sesssion =( aww. can't believe ppl i noe are scattered over the world. all too soon, yy n paul will be gone in US for a longlong time. forever? feels strange. even now as we study in japan, in us, in uk, in australia. scattered all over the world. am i repeating myself? i feel kinda sad. we shared a life together.. and now our paths diverge. seems weird that i can't just call iris out for lunch when i feel like it. not when she's in australia.. seems strange i can't see ppl whenever i feel like it. seems odd to be estranged in faraway scotland.

even as i embrace my bright new future, a path more or less fixed... past memories doggedly trail me... forgetful as i may be, these memories hold such a tight grasp on me i could never let them fade... haha.. i miss everyone.. anyone who left an imprint on my life.. people who walk across, passer-bys, people who step in and stay...residents.. i'm glad for it all.. duno what i'm saying.. haha but just glad about the way my life seemed to haf turned out alright after all.. and for all the people who made it soo...

hey peeps. uploaded EVEN more photos =)
haha they're in album 6(edinburgh) though of cos i'm not in edin anymore o_O
whee~ clearly xin is VERY free now or she wudn haf the time to actually upload photos.
ppl. date me!!! haha =)

stranger in a familiar land
can't remember who said that. me? nic? or when.
paths i've taken several times, with several different people, evoking several memories - seems almost like i'm watching a movie of a past me.
my familiar table, yet i can't bring myself to flip through the files or rummage through my drawers.
i don't remember what's in them or what i'll find.
things don't mean the same. i think.
all the past nittygritty grudges faded in a short span of a year. less.

one thing doesn't change: my friends
(or am i being self-delusional - haha)
worrying that i won't fit in anymore, that i won't understand cos NUS/NTU/SMU life is different.
i'm glad we all can still talk, that we could all spend a familiar night in Nic's house, watching GR, listening to the familiar fanfares, eating - or shall i say binging, laughing, doing silly things, chattering and chattering AND chattering =)
i'm glad my jc class remains the same. everyone even -looks- the same.
and although the rj band ppl have changed visibly, and despite the quarrels and snubbings, we did have a happy day at the beach after all =)

perhaps it was a year of changes after changes that made me appreciate the things that do stay constant.

i love all of u =)

xin is back in singapore.
not really going out..
but been to vivo! amk hub! central! orchard! ps! far east! toa payoh hubs. manymany places, mostly with my moms.
went out wif the rg ppl. paula! huiyans! tsemins! xiaorisss!
missed everyone.
but all i've been doing really... is errr housework.
i feel like unpaid labour sometimes. HAHA.

going for my 1st band prac todayy.
wonder if i can still play

ANW crux of my post is i've uploaded some of the tm-cl-xy uk trip photos.
and now i've a new album tooo! cos err i exceeded the exciting limit. erps.

i know- i have groused about skinny people.

BUT i really don't get it.
were young singaporean females always that skinny? always?
it doesn't make sense. where did all these skinny people come from?
what happened to all the marvellous fatty food that singapore is so proud of?
it can't have all gone down these skinny throats!
only salads, with a dab of salad dressing (no, wait, cross that out), grapefruit juices will.

xin has made a resolution to get skinnier =)
but err.. how she will go about doing it.. will remain a mysteryy.

i'll think about it... HMM.

Continuing...
We went to the smallest sovereign state in the world: Vaticano City which is like about 0.4kmsquare. i thinks. i know i shld put a pic of st peter's basilica - it's most notable landmark but i don't feel inclined to so. HAH. i liked the bridge of angels =)
and i posted a postcard to my mommy =) MOMMY! ee.
and how can we miss the all-famous sistina capella, housed inside the vaticano museo along with a ZILLION pieces of great art!! omggg. haha.
now. isn't this a much nicer post.. and after rome we took several trains back to edinburgh and plane la. duh. i think we travelled for more than 12h!!
AND I FINISHED EXAMSSSS. DID I MENTION THAT =) WOOHOOOO~

xin's last post was dreary and wordy and boring - meant for either reallyboredpeoplewithnothingbettertodothantoreadxinyi'sinaccurateversionofitalyratherthanreadingwikipedia's *gasps for breath* or me (who seem to fit into the previous category anw)

so this post will be a little more colourful =) i hopes. (and everyone else fervently hopess.)

soo after siena we truly explored firenze.to the ponte vecchio amongst other things.
we went to fiesole as welll =) a hillside town? to view firenze from the top...



we went to pompeii via napoli (though we did nth at napoli except run to buy some tasty pastry at the pasticeria).
we had a gorgeous lunch at this famous restaurant. it was so posh! and the food was goood! and they had a live band which played TICOTICO!
then we went into the ancient city of pompeii!
spent many hrs walking around and then left for roma termini agains.
did i mention i arrived in rome on my birthday, a drizzly, gloomy day, a day i tried so hard to stay cheerful, and almost spent it quite uneventfully, despite the coldrain, despite the restaurants that were all closed during dinner... and i had to catch the wrong train, ending up 22km away from my accom, and having to take a 60euro taxi ride home =(

we went to the colosseum
and to the trevis fountain which was so beautifull!!

firstly thanks to alllLL the lovely people who wished me happy birthday.
imagine my surprise. it seems as though being stuck in scotland all by myself (not exactly) but like without all of you.. makes me feel a little forgotten. sometimes when i hear about batch outings i'm no longer invited to, just cos it's pointless inviting me. haha! and about sunny singapore thingss. and then on my birthday, facebook gets spammed. xinyi has facebook can u believe it! erps. and my hotmail gets spammed. faces, words and little wishes from bits and pieces of my history re-emerges.. thanks everyonee =) love u alll.. very muchhhies.

xin has vanished for an eternally long time. due to pre-easter-stress in handing up ESSAYSSSS i still HATE essayss. ew.EW.EWWWW. and then pre-easter-vacation-preparationss. endless nights of researching about italy, about train passes, about accomodations, of peering at maps and wondering how far the little red point where my accomm is is from the little green triangle where the station is and the dotted square where the city centre is. hasty packing. is italy cold? don't know, don't want to pack my fat jacket. brings 2 thin jackets. whee. camera. handphone. nothing much else. and we flyyyyyy.

unlike kenny who has decided to write in elaborate detail about the trip, xin is kinda lazy (and hasn't even uploaded her photos so her memory card is bursting full of stratford and italy photoss) so i'll just describe what i feel like. HAHA.

as usual. i like to fly. but the little prestwick airport, which smells of farm and cow dung and grass (trust me, it was a familiar smell, bringing back memories of pony riding), doesn't seem like the departure point of great magnificent aircrafts as we have gotten used to. nothing like the glory of the changi airport, with a few meagre shops just awakening, and a most comforting WH Smith and Starbucks (that all airports seem to have). ok basically we fleww. and landed in bergamo orio sth sth airport at midnight (but it was 1am there o_O) i'm 1h further away from home and my family and my friendss. we spent the night with rowdy!swearing!singing!and notoriously DRUNK scots! again!!! cos scots was playing italy the day after o_O in the 6 nations thingy or maybe not the 6 nations thingy in football in BARI which was at the heel of the italy boot. chased around the chilly night, regretting immensely not bringing the FAT jacket. tossing and turning to the lullabies of scottish national songs yelled over the PA system till a security guard yelled in italian to the scots. we finally got to the next day where we would head off to MILANN. we missed a bus. another bus. and another buss. and we finally got to bergamo station where we had MACDONALDS (kenny's favourite obsesssion - and ian's?) and we trooped off to milann. irrelevantly kenny has calculated and concluded that we have covered roughly 2400km. not 2.4km but 2400km the whole trip. whee~

we reached the hotel and concussed. and got up frantically to go sightseeing in milan. saw the golden quad, felt HIGHLY inadequately dressed though i was wearing a long skirt and nice jacket (which will haunt me for the rest of the trip cos it was cold and that was my thickest jacket) and saw the excellentEXCeLLENT duomo. question: why are all churches dark? kinda ironic isn't it. church where shakespeare is buried is like the brightest church i've been to. HONESTLY. blahBLAH and we went off to VENICe mestre. my favourite place. though venice santa lucia was the main stop, but we stayed a station off, in a lovely camping place in a sweet new cabin by ourselves, which had a grand ensuite toilet and lovely heating. it was a peaceful neighbourly (silas marner!!!) place. and it housed our favourite gelateriaa. DID I FORGET TO MENTION? we had at least ONE gelato everyday. whee. one gelato might mean more than 1 scoop (or gusti as they call it) AND did i mentino my italian is brilliant? i can count up to ten (or more i bet. whee) venice is my favourite place, although we didn't sail down the grand canal in a romantic gondola which is very expensive o_O or even take a traghetteria across the river. i love the small winding paths with obscure dead ends at canals and rickety, dubious signs pointing to piazza roma and ican'tremember o_O. imagine spending 2h wandering aimlessly thru little cobbled paths occassionally chancing upon a bridge cutting across a little canal that runs like a road pass houses, with boats parked in front of them as if cars, sometimes passing through a little piazza, a small little clearing, where little kids play and huge dogs gambol, and then stepping out into a gigantic open space, where the magnificence of the duomo shines at u, glares at u almost. it's spectacular really. amazing. despite the drizzle. the incessant drizzle that drenched my shoes and indirectly burned a hole in my sock (long story). okay, it was grand. brilliant, i love venice. i so recommend walking around aimlessly. seriously.

firenze.florence.in the beautiful gorgeous countryside of Tuscany where vineyards populate (which i didn't see a single one or if i did, i didn't recognize o_O mayb it's the wrong season) trooped off to pisa the first day (so din see firenze). and it's so strange to stand next to the leaning tower of pisa, or to look beyond and see stretches of people standing on the grass, hands outstretched, in a valiant attempt to push over the tower of pisa (or look as if they're doing so) and then get chased off by diligent police, blowing furiously at the whistles and waving at the 'keep off the grass' sign, ironically, the only location where one can get a good photo of them 'pushing' over the 'excellent' architectural fiasco.

it's getting late. i'm getting lazy.. siena will wait till tomorrow

pisa has a GREAT trattoria (a little like restaurant). it's near the main attractions and starts with 'antica.... trattoria' and it serves great food at a decent price (i had seafoood - prawnss and crayfish and FISH and calamari) and despite what all the postcards proclaim, the leaning tower of pisa does NOT light up in the night. i bet they photoshopped the lights. damn. no we din stay all the way till it was dark to see the non-lighting up; we stayed there so we could shiver our way home, after our 3rd gusti of gelato.

xin is still plodding through her philo essay, having decided that kanji portfolio is unimportant.
xin has paid her accomm!
and planned a highlands/skye trip for the singsoc. whether anyone goes is another matter naturally.
xin is going to italyITALYitaly. xin needs to plan italy trip. bah.
xin has a new idolIDOL! - he is... YamaPi! piiiii-chan wa kawaiii~ thanks zun for having shown me 2 of his shows over the xmas holz (dragon zakura & nobuta o produce!)
xin has spent practically half of her time youtubing yamapi and finding yamapi songs and reading about yamapiiii~ (and reading translations of his blog OMG! haha~ xin is crazy momentarily)

gloomy clouds, grey skiess. walking in the rain.
slight but oppressive drizzle that gets to u like how drops of water goes drip, drip and eventually drills a hole through the hardest rock.
i remember telling someone: oh at least it isn't both rainy and windy.
goes into a cafe for a warm cuppa mocha, thinks all is fine, goes out, and guess what! it IS rainy and windy.
someone tells me: typical day in edinburgh.
one has to agree sometimes.

still aching from pony trekkiing on sunday in the pentland hills.
misty day it was (and yeah rainy)
splashing in the mud in oversized spare wellies.
ugly green wellies and ugly green waterproof sheet.
(pony must have thought i was grass. nose sniffled at the green shapeless thing in front of it. licked. and licked. decidedly not grass. nudged. green shapeless thing moved. pony turns away)
exciting. naughty dessie who's lazy. i kicked gently, it mrufledd and went back to nibbling grass. kicked again. dessie walked a few step and... went back to grass. kicked and kicked. and ppl wonder why sitting on a pony can be tiring.
dessie hates to follow in a straight line where all the ponies are and wanders off despite my tugging at the rein. dessie and i move parallel.
dessie hates marla. everytime we see marla, dessie makes a wild dash at marla (and xin desperately holds on) and attempts a bite. marla rears (and mary desperately holds on).
bazil likes dessie's butt. and licks it. dessie is alarmed and CANTERS towards empty space (xin holds on, pulls the rein and thankfully does not fall off)
xin and dessie are lost in the mist. voices talking ahead. voices talking behind. and all we see is white swirly mist and the sillhouete of a huge pony butt swaying in front of us.
curious sheep stares at trail of ponies.
xinyi is relieved and tired. but xin would like to go again (once i forget how horrifying it possibly might be)

xin has much to do.
we have a kanji portfolio (wth is that o_O)
we have a kanji test (soon)
we have yet ANOTHERRRRR philo essay
we have a miniquiz (potentially more than onee)
we have to pay accomm.
we have to study. and study. and study.
we have to plan italy(?) trip.
we have to... weeeeee. weeeeeeee. i dunno.

byebyee =)

happy chi new yr~ happy valentines'! did i miss anything else? i miss everybody
haha really really miss the whole festive chinese new yr.. seems weird to go to school on chi new yr.. i still went thoughh.. i'm so hardworking.. yay. i'm done with essays for now.. haf another in about a mth's time and a silly portfolio due around tt time too =(

went to portobello the other day~ the beach is pretty! but cold.. like COLDDD! why are there cold beaches? all beaches shld be like for suntanning and stuff.. erghzz. there were many little doggiess.. ohh the other day there was a cat outside my door after all!! it cuddled up to me.. and rubbed its face on my shoe.. it was so affectionate.. haha! i would haf really liked the cat if it didn't extend its claws and tried to climb up my jeanss, scratching me while she was at it o_O but she was cute la.. lala..

ISSS the rg mafia coming to uk?
i'm late for classs but i dun feell like going cos today is a gloomy day =(
and i realise i haf manymanymany things to do. (i hear a cat outside my window?door?howalarming)
politics essay next tues. AH i hate essays. i hate essaysss. i HATE essays. did u just hear me say i hate essays? i hate essays =( i want to *** it's a secrett. and i want to go to the gymm. and i want to err fill up the firefly form due like 2 mths ago o_O AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH and i want to pay my accomm. and i want to get a new phonee. and i want to.. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH so many thingss.. die.die. and i'm late for lectureee.. i better walk fastfastt =( i dun want do essay. no essay... noooooo!!!

xin shall go check out the cat meowinggg.

hellossh =) xin reports from edinburgh =)
after doing a horrendousss philo essay (i hate essayss =( ) i'm nearlyyy freee~ (well if i ignored the politics essay due like less than 2 wks later o_O)
despite the esssay, i still managed to haf a wonderfull time (As usual)
i hope the rg mafia is still coming to uk =)

xin went to the burn house for the weekend near/in aberdeen where the famouss angus steak comes from. hurhur but i din eat any.

xin was in a rustic-looking house isolated in the countryside amidst hills and woods with only a little village (ezel?) 2 or 3 miles away.
xin took early morning (slpy) walks along gurgling streams and stony paths, listening to the hollow knockings of the woodpeckers and the cries of the pheasants.

xin meditated in the labyrinth and spent idle minutes swaying on the wooden swing.

xin spent exciting nights/mornings/afternoons (well nearly all the time) having/listening to intense political debates about uk/ scotland/ russia.
xin goes for 3-course meals at the sound of the dinner gong, and at other times, have tea and scones or tea and macaroons or tea and ginger biscuits. lovely.

and now xin is back in gd old edinburgh, reading about germany and the failed weimar republic.
on top of japanese, xin suddenly feels inclined to learn french. haha!
xin missess everyoneee. mummy. daddy. sisss.sisss. hy. paulas. px. iris. tsetsemiffss. clarines. chongs. ruis. nics. rg peeps and rj peeps. ohh and i heard that my tagboard iss downn =(

hellos. it is a cold day again!
it's been snowingg. fluffs of snow driftingg.
on the first night it snowed, we went embarrassingly mad, dancing in the snowflakes with chilly toes bared and uncovered by flipflops, with tongues outstretched, eating snowflakes, and hair trapping millions of iridescent flakes. so pretty =)

it's been a busy weeeek. singapore food fest. cooking and cooking AND cooking for the whole week. at least i'm a gd chef *grinzz* haha. doing essays. TWO insane essays for philosophy and politics. trying and trying to keep up with tutorials and giving up on doing the readings for lectures. cooking and cooking at kenny's place. i'm a wonderful chef. hoho. do i need to say that again? ah and looking for flats. an abominable task. at least we've FINALLY settled who's to stay with who. AH. i hope we get a nice place =) where i can cook and cook and continue to be a gd chef. HAHA. ok i shall stop it. lalala.. feel like baking browniesss but too lazy to go buy cocoaa.

i missssssess huiyan. and i'm very exciteds that somee lovely rgssbeeeees are flying to uk to seee us!!!! when do u all intend to come and when do u intend to leavess? then i can err buy my return ticket to singaporess. haha. i end term officially on 25th may, provided my papers are (yet again?) on the last dayyy. hopefully not so i can end earlier.. HAHA. but i'll be chased out of my accomm by 27th o_O so can we pls haf some plannn? or i'm flying back on 27th okss.

and i'vee.... finally succumbed to popular presssure and gotten a facebook account =)
ta-da..

みんな、日本語を見えましたか。私は見えませんから。日本語は著～楽しいですね！上手がなりたいです！

今日はー月十ー日です。晴れとき々雨です。風が強意です。学校へ行くが疲れるの事です。でも、日本語のクラスはいつもとっても楽しいです＝）きょうは嬉しいですね！去年のテストは九十八％です。信じる事ができない！ほかのテストもいいと望む。

今勉強します。クラスの後、図書館へ行きました。多い本を貸しました。でも、読みたくない。政治学は難しい。だから、今は始めます！シンイ、頑張ってね！

おはよう！
I've finally figured out how to use the japanese input keyy! wheee¬ haha i just fiddled with the language bar thingy and succeeded! yay! happy =)

Happy birthday to Hui Chong!!
チョングさん、お誕生日　おめでとうございます！最近、お元気ですか。手紙を受けりましたか。私の日本語はまだ悪いですから、日本語で手紙を書けませんでした。
haha i think my japanese still cannot make it.. i wonder if it makes sense. haha ee. i hope most people can't read it =) nnehh. clarine don't laughh at me!

i typed a long long post about lnodon but blogger screwed up. and refused to elt me save or upload it. gr. i shall just cut and paste:

belated happy new yr! finally settled down after travelling and travelling. had a great christmas and new year with a part of my beloved rgmafiaa =) my dear shun and nic =) choc fondue. boxing day sales. movies. tower bridge. london bridge. st paul's cathedral. tate modern. madame tussaud's. spending quality time with nic and shun! i'm so glad i got to talk to nic!!! *hugzz* guess we didn't really do much in london. haha! oh yeahh. the producers! lovely and entertaining musical! gotta watch more musicals liek LES MIS! hey tsetsemifff we're waiting for u to come over and watch kk =P
new year, new start. came back with xmas cards in my mailbox. with msgs and calls from uk ppl. snuggling in bed wondering if i ought to go out and see hogmanay celebrations despite the howling wind and pelting rain (i'm exaggerating of course.) and lazy me just slept through it. but miraculously, lucky me found out that hogmanay was cancelled!! AHAHA. thank goodness i didn't trudge all the way to princes st to 'celebrate' hogmanay.
been busy lately bringing kenny's friends around edinburgh, well scotland in general. actually it's just an excuse not to start work and to explore and travel somemore.HAHA. buffet at glasgow. loch ness and nessie. urquhat castle. chopchop. yumyum. shopping. and now the new school term has begun once again =( still don't feel like studying. this yr i shall be more disciplinedd and go to the gym more often and study harder and still keep my 2 new yr resolutions to nic =) as the yr goes on, it may be hard to keep our resolutions.. but we'll remind each other kk =)

exams were over. ahh so long. so much happened. slowly retracing my steps.

15th dec was like the worst day of the year or sth. well close. i heard things i didn't want to hear. i sat for a TERRIBLE exam. dinner at arowana was pretty good but it made me feel worse cos everyone was so cheerful, it being the holidays, and that being our xmas- cum- new- yr- cum- everything-cos-everyon'es-returning-to-their-home-country-dinner, and nurul and i were juz grumpy and didn't feel like talking to everyone and being sulky and not feeling like smiling and feeling reallyreally guilty for being a wet blanket =( sorry folks. bad day. then had the girls' slp over which rox. seriously. we watched constantine, and we intended to watch legally blonde but we never made it. HAHA. like we were supposed to walk over to yy's room to watch it but everyone was settled happily on my floor, and we were talking, listening to old cheesy music like backstreet boys! talking was so wonderful. haha. it's a girl thing i guess. talking and talking about everything and anything. ppl took turns to fall aslp and then finally it was 6am, time to take the train to manchester...

16th dec started terribly. all 3 of us (hl, kenny and i) were like concussed. hl slept like a few hrs, kenny and i both din slp - hl and kenny went clubbing and i was (as above) having the slpover. we err missed the train. ok let's not describe it. it was a painful experience (for kenny). we got there, met GARRICK!!! haven't seen him for so long.. then he walked us to his place which was damn far away and NOT at all 400m despite his constant assurance that it was. it's like at least 1km oks. and it's not funny carrying a big bag (my luggageee). we had good dim sum. haven't had dim sum for like soooooooooo long like 3 months, since the imf-amazing-race-stb-thingy-dimsum-at-crystal-jade. then we err. nua-ed around till dinner. what did we eat.. err like fried chicken and chips (british chips - i.e. fries) no vege anw.

17th dec. ah 17th dec! i wanted to email a friend but ermms i forgot. oopz. we had big english breakfast (or we wanted to) but in the end we settled for beer and burger (but we din get beer - who drinks beer in the morning - the brits?!) and sunday roast, yummy sunday roast in yorkshire puddingss. mms. dunno what we did but we had a gorgeous chinese dinner, i had beef hor fun! can u believe it? reminds me of ghim moh times. anw i'm fed up of writing in details cos i can't actually remember what we did.. so i'm going to summarise.

museum. t-rex. apes. egyptians. the world. old trafford. manchester united. trophies. stadium. grass. red cafe. town hall. christmas market. university of manchester. gay pubs. canal street. chinatown.arndale. odeon. eragon. manchester eye. library. well not much after alll. and nights and nights and nights of watching stupid movies i think my iq has deterioratedd. then offfffie to london on the 21st.

shitty time on 21st morning. the airport confiscated ALL my stuffss like toothpaste, lip balm, perfumess, soapss, shampoos, moisturiser, water, my fork.

...to be continuedd. when i feel like it.

morning. irritated. my previous post was erased o_O cos my internet connection died. anwss i kinda gaf up mugging o_O went to jo's room and we talked till like 2am. actually until 1.30am but the fire alarm kindly interrupted us so we stood shivering in the cold for half an hr before returning. grr. i do hate those stupid drunkards who set off the fire alarm. if they set it off tonight again, i'm going to scream, cos unlike -some- people, i still have a paper tmr. seriously. and they set it off at THREE am the night before my 9am Logic paper (which is a bit like mathematics)

anwws i remember why i wanted to postt. cos i uploaded photoss. at least till the cambridge trip cos i errr am too lazy to upload the glasgow photos and the bubble tea photo and the nurul's party photos and the jap party photo and the baking attempt 2 phtoos. i'm trying to upload to blogger but it doesn't work grr. umm i'll do it soon.. lala.. maybe after my examss. eeks. so busyy. i think i don't want to study le.. i'll go play pool after going to the bank (can u believe the bank lost my THIRD application form so i'll be doing my fourth today.. seirously what is wrong wif them? or what is wrong wif me?)

ahh it worked. okkk above is me in the newnham gown =)

it's me again =) on 12th dec. rui's birthday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY! yesterday was tuan's birthday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY! i miss celebrating birthdayss. hmm okk.

today i'm studying japp. jappy. jappy. basically i spent 1h finishing err most of it. so i've the rest of the day freeeee. and i'm not going to start on politics. nono. eww. today is japaneseee. maybe i'll write a japanese notee to megumi~ she wrote me a reply that i could barely understand the last time though.. hahaa! i shall think very hardd and write a nice replyy. or watch anime the rest of the day - sounds good =) yays.

ahh everyone's back in singapore it seems. can't believe i'm still having exams =( can't wait till i reach london and see nic and see zun again and feel a little more normal.. till thenn~

it's the 3rd. haha what's with the weekly postss?
tuesday. went to the jap society end-of-sem party at club massa. good music, nice dance floor, but no one dancing. haha except for the friends i went with (my classmates who take japanese) and i o_O haha. they were great company though. haha and i kind of had fun i guess dancingg and dancing.. although err it got a little strange cos it was just us. haha~

thursday, went to kiru (my snr)'s birthday party. she's 21. happy belated! it was at frankenstein, a pub/ club where she worked. pretty big place with 3 floors. haha. met one fo my classmates there who was looking for her bf in the huge place.. hahaa. everyone was dressed so poshlyy. haha. cos the dress code was red carpet. haha the guys were in suits and stuff. quite cool. haha. i wore jo's dress =) i love dressing up =) reminds me of nic and rui.. haha. they constantly played a film called 'bride of frankenstein' there, it's quite alarming. haha~ and everyone was taking photos, chatting or drinkingg.. their bar specialty is a drink called (guess..) 'bride of frankenstein' haha.. but it's really good. it's like bailey's with CHOCOLATE!!!!!! yummm. then the snrs realised they forgot to buy a cake o_O so they ran to tesco to get a plain chocolate cake, which they decorated, quite well i must say.. haha.. and the cake was deliciouss.. anything that has chocolate in it is delicious *beamss* supposed to go clubbing at faith after that but errr we got stuck at kiru's house chatting and we deided to go home. haha. it was drizzling and terribly windyy. when i say windy i mean windy. at one point of time, while kenny and i were walking to the pub, we were blown such that we couldn't control where we were going.. i was pushed full speed into a fence, luckily the wind stopped before i crashedd o_O lucky. not fun to crash into a wet fence in a nice prom dress okk. i had to hold on to the fence everytime the wind blew and stop or else i might fly away o_O and i'm not exaggeratingg. it was so scaryy.. trying so desperately to stop and feeling so vulnerable in the gust o_O even kenny was blown awayy.. and he's tallll and therefore more heavy? haha.. oh well..

haven't been doing much since then but i've run into a spate of bad luck =( it's really bizarre. like i lost my meal pass which i CLEARLY remember putting into my pocket. it's not even my usual i-cant-remember-where-i-left-it-maybe-i-left-it-on-=the-dining-hall-table thing, i clearly remember where i put it, it just wasn't there afterwards o_O i tripped one breakfast and poured milk into my baked beans o_O it was gross okk. grosss! something else but i can't remember.. hm. something really annoying. ahh well.. then this morningg, hard at work studying with my lights on, light starts flickering.. flickerr. flickerrr. flickerr. i switched it off and am studying by the pathetic light of my table lamp now which is burning my book.. cos it's so hott o_O and i can't study by the light of the day. cos it's pouring now (which means i can't go for lunch anytime soon) and the sky is overcast and anw the days are so short here.. how am i going to studyyyy tonight? AH. AHHHH. (is this just an excuse??) man i won't be surprised if more terrible things happenn. drearryy.

it's the twenty-seventh. time flies.

been busy mugging. kind of. haha. exams are coming.
received my essay back (my one and only essay this sem that's worth 40% o_O)
quite relieved to know that asian students don't fare worse. haha. didn't do spectacularly well but above average (or at least the average the lecturer told us)

let's see where i've been the past week. i can't remember o_O
AH. sunday was the match between chelsea and man u. both drew. some people tried dragging me to watch at the bar in our halls but i was studyingg! studdying!
saturday was a busy day but i can't remember why. i woke up late. barely did any work then went for nurul's and aliaa's party. wore my sareee. it's damn hard to wear, i look fat o_O haha but the food was good. nurul is an amazing cook. i love the orange, mint, pomegranate salad. and the black pepper chicken that aliaa cooked. ahh. and all the hari raya cookies and sweets. fattening but good. hehe. everyone went mad and decided to gif me a name cos chinese names are hard to remember, and some of the people were having trouble. there was letchmi o_O (cos i was wearing a saree); there was betty (don't ask), i can't rmb.. angelina? haha. okk but i think my name is nice enough okk. so there.
friday. went to the german market. YUM. i had apple strudel with cinamon cream (delicious) and vanilla sauce! haha. and my frens had crepe with banana and nutella. and the dutch pancakess. can't remember what u call them. pflerroteS? haha.. some weird spelling. then they went to drink err.. the german drink.. gerveich? i'm making this up. and they kept the mug cos it's so pretty. i shld do that nxt time. then we went to the asian food fairrr. haha.. had yummy chi food though eddy says it's all chi takeaway o_O but the sushi rice was damn gd!! they put smoked salmon (Which scotland is famous for btw) and seaweed in it. ahhh.. i had half a plate of ricee.. and curry and swt and sour pork and black pepper beef and swt potato soup and a whole lot of irrelevant, non-asian sweets (desserts).
thursday was the xmas light up. it was drizzling and cold. COLD. u get the idea. we stood in the open watching. but it was gorgeous. norway gave edinburgh a pine tree for (something) and they hung lights on it so it became a xmas treee =) it was the opening of THE outdoor skating rink on princes st as well. and they had famous skaters.. some famous guy who was amazinggly graceful and superb. this couple dancers who glided on the ice to the beautiful ballad and make u feel all fuzzy and warmm despite the insistent rain and chilly wind. the amazing 13 year old junior skater. the snowman skater. the sync skaters which was AMAZING. how do like 10 ppl skate in such synchrony? and they wear amazingly little. haha! oh yeahh and the female skater from peter pan on ice (which is coming to edinburgh this january) is AMAZING.. haha man i need to brush up on my vocabulary. but she felll =( and got soaking wet.. but her moves were so beautiful.. ahhh. and it was so wonderful when the fireworks erupted into the sky. so beautiful.. and when the 7 year old girl flicked the switch for the light up, and the whole dark st was suddenly illuminated, the huge ferris wheel behind me beside the cathedral like monument, the little rides scattered along the street, the trees lined with lights. the trees are full of starlight.. (that's from les mis) i felt so blissfully happy and christmassy. and christmas music all abound. ahhh. i want to learn to ice skate all of a sudden. haha!
i can't remember the rest.. it's too long ago.. haha. yay.

went to glasgow last saturday.

willow tea room. smoked scottish salmon sandwich. apple tea. glasgow school of art. tribal art. magazine on digital drawing - lost. little children on a school trip. sauchiehall street. grid of neatly intersecting roads. wrong turn down st vincent's place. george square! statues. pigeons. pigeons. pigeons. huge christmas tree. snow sled. glass house of statues. back to winsley owens. tea at chapter house. yummy rocky road. marshmellows. fine almond slices. dripped with chocolate, set on a crumbly, crunchy base. mm. princes square. escalator from the street directly into the mall. huge huge huge christmas tree. sparkly lights. holy wreaths. i mean holly wreaths. chocolates in ruck sacks. scots. scots books and scots words at waterstones'. became a drich day. rain pattering. looking out of the bus window to an amazing darkness filled with evanescent orange lights dancing through the magnification of uneven raindrops on the window. home at edinburgh.

long time no post.

went to cambridge last wkend. i had so much to say while i was there. staying in rui's room. having the posh dinner at fitzbillies. having tons and tons of chocolate cakess. eating freshly-made fudge from the fudge kitchen. having a formal! (AH) dressing up and dressing up... hanging arnd wif rui, hanging arnd wif nic, listenin to band prac, (AH) playing cluedo o_O, talking, climbing the mound, visiting the fitzwilliam museum, exploring the rodin's exhibition at kettle's yard, attempting to watch the crucible at the round church. it's such a rui-nic-xin thing to do.

i miss rui and nic so much =( seeing them and leaving them makes it worse =( cambridge days were happy days. AH. okk. stop thinking about it.

i love rui and nic!

kyoo wa yooka desu. tenki wa kumori tokidoki ame desu. chotto samuiiii~

monday jieying and her friends from ucl came to edinburgh. (ok let me sidetrack) i think it's so cool they travel around so much together, like they've been to cambridge,to oxford, to the highlands (which i, in scotland, haven't been to o_O) and around glasgow. it's like errr we keep asking around to make sure everyone can go, and in the end, it's too late to go, it's really silly, honestly.. okk but next week we're going to glasgow. i don't care. haha~ ANW i met them first after dinner at palmyra (a kebab place), then we went for fried mars bars again! hehe. that's 2 consecutive nights of fried mars bars. but it's good. the toffeee just melts in ur mouth as u go crunch into the batter, and then the sweet blend of chocolate and toffee slides down ur throatAH. i'm addicted to it. then i went to make my railcard (irrelevantly). long storyy.

tuesday. was so slpy i went to slp right after breakfast, waking up only for class at 11.30am o_O haha. then went to join jieying and friends after class at arthur's seat, brought them halfway up, okay maybe a quarter way up cos they only had half an hour, and the view's gorgeous from there anyway. it was quite fun. we took jumping shots. like ppl jumping and we snap (i'm relaly lousy at that)haha. but there was this guy who was brilliant at it. so we had really cool photos, with the mountains (one of scotland's various mountains) as the backdrop, and the city spreading behind, and the people looking as if they were flying, and everyone looked positively happy =) then they had to go offf. so we bade them farewell =(

today'ss an exciting dayy. i feel pretty excited. haha. cos i'm going to bake.. so far i only have an oven which i borrowed from a friend. it's mini so i wonder how many batches i have to do o_O and i need to get a fork (to stir the batter) and 2 big bowls (to mix the batter in) and various ingredients. wonder what i'm going to do with so many eggs though o_O ah weelll. what to dooo.. i love baking =)

kyoo wa muika desu.
another dreary grey day. it was a little grey on saturday, quite grey on sunday, and really grey today. ah well. but today is mummy's birthday!! i managed to wish her birthday at 12am on the dot. she must be having dinner now or soon. then after dinner, we'll wait for daddy to come home, and we'll all sing her a birthday song, except me. maybe i'll secretly singg here and maybe the strains of my voice will be carried by the wind halfway across the globe =P

otooi wa yokka dshita.
woke up really late - a usual saturday morning thing. well but the day got interesting. supposed to meet yoch at 2.30pm outside the chinese supermarket with jo and yy. but jo had to study and yoch was err i dunno, so we changed to 3.30pm. we were slightly late, took such a long time deliberating over what noodles to get, and bumped into yoch's fren (whom yoch talked to for some time), so by the time we got all our ingredients, the sun had set - like literally cos the sun sets here at about 5pm o_O well anw the party is supp to start at like 5pm o_O so we rushed back to yoch's place, it's not funny carrying like 1kg worth of grocery, braving the impossibly strong wind (like everytime it blows, jo and i get buffeted. it's not funny seriously, and running across the huge Meadows. (as in the place is called the Meadows o_O) well we had a little teeny problem with the curry chicken, ie yoch who was supp to teach us and who learnt it the day before kind of forgot the receipt. so yy and i just mixed everything tgt and hoped it worked out. it didn't really taste right. haha! well it was ok. we had lots of mini-disasterss, the drying of the noodless (with a hairdryer by william) and how the electricity tripped every 5 mins, so we had to station hianliang at the main switch o_O, the plucking of the beansprouts (and the thereafter giving up). haha. but anw in the end, it was all polished off by 12 hungry ppl =P the szechuan noodles were highly valued =P yays. it was good ok.. and of cos our beloved finale - our 6 tubs of ice cream.. phish food, chunky monkey, oh my apple pie, dublin mudslide, bailey's!! and strawberry from haagen dazs (the one with the gorgeously yummy strawberry chunks which i made kenny buy for me but william polished it off =( but i am nice and generouss and i admit i ate ahemm qutie a bit.) okk it was haevenly. boy do i love ice cream =)

kinoo wa itsuka deshita.
went to the gym to burn off the icecream - need i say more? haha.
then it's guy fawkes' day. didn't really think we'll be doing much, cos everyone was so nua today. so i (tried to) study and went for an early dinner. we were trying to psyche everyone to go up arthur's seat to watch (and set off hopefully) fireworks. ok but we din get fireworks (quite sad). but anw, the fireworks were cool. there were the noisy ones that end in an anticlimax nothingness, the sparkly ones, the erupt into flames, and the little flames then erupt into a burst of stars. the pretty purply ones. the ones that stroke across the sky, leaving behind glittery dust. the ones that make interesting squiggles in the sky and manymany more. it was all around me. here a bang, there a whoosh, we were stuck at thebottomish of the hill cos we were so awed, and we couldn't focus enough to climb. haha. it was so pretty. u guys got to see it man. and like we looked over the city, the orange sodium lamps dotting the landscape, tracing innumerous roads, and then across the city, as if in a universal common thought, fireworks erupt everywhere. and from halfway up the hill, it seems as though the lights are escaping form the streets into the black crisp air in an attempt to reach their fellow stars. it's so pretty. but all the photos look stupid. haha! cos we haf shaky hands, and cos the 'night' mode of the camera, leaves the shutter open for a long timee. we haf some pretty cool effects though. anw talking about cameras, i took out my camera to capture the first firework of the night AND it said 'low battery' and konked out o_O ok enough said.

anw, we had to go. cos arthur's seat caught fire!!!! some ppl wre getting pretty drunk. i noe it's bonfire night but.. err they aim fireworks at a farside cliff with bushes and stuff, and it caught fire, and the fire spread up the whole side of the cliff. it was fascinating; it was magnificent but it was morbid. there were at least a few hundred people on the cliff that night. it was dark, some people were on top of the hill. if the fire went out of control, and people ran, there would have been a stampede, and we were all kinda trapped in the valley by the growing ring of spectators. 5 fire brigade trucks came wailing up the road, and firemen came running out. by then we could see huge billowing smoke and the red of the flame illuminating the whole hill. but that was only up one peak. we went to eat fried mars bars later (to make up for the interruptino of our fireworks gazing). i shared with yoch okk so it's not so bad =P and byt he time we returned to pollock and looked at the hill again, we could see fire up another peak as well. two peaks ablaze in the dark of the night. the trail of fire slowly creeping up the dry autumn vegetation. it was scary but a new experience no doubt. anw blhablahblah, by the time i actually got to slp, it was 2.30am.

and here i am, 9.30am in the morning, having woken up at 7.55am for breakfast. i have a char siew bao in my room, beside me now.. long storyy. and this entry has been far too long so..
jya mata~

kyoo wa mikka desu.
i don't believe it's currently like 0 degrees celcius o_O. ok when i breathe out, there's condensation but it doesn't have to be 0 degrees right? haha. i think it's cos my room is like a sauna (and i don't know how to turn down the heater) so i'm sitting in my room, windows open, heater on full blast, wearing a skirt, slipperss and a thin sweater and feeling perfectly comfortablee. whee~

tutorial will prove to be boring. as always =( i dislike tutorials. i don't learn -anything- and we are forced to sit down and pay attn. kinda misss jc-style tutorials. ok like those bennylee kind at least, cos we actually learn sth new every class. and u don't exaclty haf to pay attn, cos it's such a big class the teacher can't really nitpick on everyone. here, i think the teachers seem to have no goal in mind about what they want to cover in the class. they just ramble on and do whatever they like just to fill up that 1h. i only go cos they take attendance and i can't miss more than 6 lessons. sighh.

but anyway, friday is exciting. nurul and i will be going to the continental market! i hope i buy lots of exciting stuffs. which reminds me, mummy received my parcel!!! i hope it was a pleasant surprise. hehe. i tried SO hard to refrain from telling her i sent her a parcel cos errr it was such an exciting thingg. i think everyone here is sick of hearing about my exciting parcel o_O okok then we'll be going for the intl students' reception at old college. i hope it's fun and there's gd food. hehe. i feel kinda thrilledd! dunno why also.. wheee~ and it looks like yet another sunny day=) i love sunny days!

kyoo wa futsuka desu =) tenki wa hare desu =)
i still can't write in japanese. dont know how. been trying, quite frustratingg. GRR.
well it's a typically boring school day.
and i think i'm getting really fat =(
but i just feel like eating and eatinggg.. stop me!!

kyoo wa jyuuichi gatsu tsuitachi desu.
yesterday was halloween.

i didn't really dress up. just made a mask, and like wore a black dress and boots and went out. haha! din noe whether ppl were going out so din want to buy stuff an waste money. oh well, i'll dress up next yr, it's relaly fun =) kenny and justin were mad scientists (justin looks like the theoretical kind, ad kenny just looks like something blew up in his face, quoting yy's words) the girls din really do anything. william went as a pumpkin =) so cute.

we went to teviot place and it was -abit- sian cos there were only bars, no clubs there. and other than kenny who got himself a shot cos he was cold (ahh long story and it's all my fault =( ), the rest of us dun really drink.. but it was really cool. cos there were like sumo wrestlers, BABIEs, vampires, phantoms of the opera, robin hoods, bloody ppl, mummiess (which is really funny), supermen and women, i dunno, flint stones, sexy nurses and doctors, cross dressers, elvis presleyss, santa clauss, tennis players o_O in the freezing cold, wearing shorts isn't funny. and ohhhhhh TREEESS. haha jo's frens even went to buy robins to put in a nest on their hair (which was the crown of the tree) OK anw. we went to the hall and kinda danced. kinda. like the music wasn't very ermm dancey. i think. i guess it's a uk thing? shrugs. there was this drunk guy in a hawaii skirt and like UM bikini? dancing wif us.. and i was trying to drag yy away from himm.. i was so scared he would like hug yy and not let her go. haha. okk. but we were all safe. and we went home happily. did i mention it was cold?

kinoo, ki-on wa san do deshita. totemo samuiii~

err i'll post halloween photos soon. ah yes i forgot. they decorated my common room, and it looks DAMN cool. haha. like webs and sppooky ghostiess and pumpkins. haha. aAND they even decorated my dining hall. and the ppl serving food all haf masks and hats and stuff.. it's really cool. and the dssert was called the fly's cemetary. and like they served 'rats' stew' which was actually beef or sth. haha.. it says so in small print.. it's cool. lol. and i had caramel appless for breakfast.. whee~ i love halloween.

helloss. if it's 5pm in singapore now, it's 9am here =) due to the daylight savings thingy, now when i wake up, the sky is actually pretty bright, but the sun goes down at 5pm o_O which is rather alarming. as in by 5pm, it's pitch black!

kyoo wa getsu yoo bi. san-jyuu nichi desu.
today is japanese shopping class. we're not having lessons today! the snrs have made and brought some japanese goods, like food!!! and i don't know. haha. then we'll be buying stuff (if we want) and we'll all converse in japanese. how cool! haha.. boy do i love japanese classes =)

kinoo wa nichi yoo bi deshita. ni-jyuu-kyuu deshita.
yesterday was a horrible day. i woke up, full of the resolution to make this a productive day, go gym, touch up my essay, blahblahblah. but i couldn't find the pg references for my essay, so i had to fake it (shh dun tell my teachers). i was about to leave for the gym when my fren called me to read her essay. that was okay actually cos i gave myself extra time at the gym. ok so i read the essay and i was about to leave with my fren (who was going to buy her lunch) when i realised i couldn't find my keys. both of us searched the whole place, rummaged through all the junk that accumulated in my room since last night, and nurul finally found it! so we hastily walked out, whne i felt my clothes getting wet, checked my bag, and my water bottle had emptied itself all over my clothes, and my towel o_O so i couldn't go to the gym after all, and i was like outside already. i felt pissed. so i walked wif nurul to get her lunch, and walked back o_O after brunch, i decided to try to go to the gym again. this time i got there safely. haha! but i was equally depressed cos i think i look very fat and true enough, i gained 1.5kg!! how is that possible within a week? o_O depressing day. i resolve to eat less potatoes.

otooi wa doyoobi deshita.
we had a halloween party that night. i decided i would go like that evening so i din haf anything to wear. so i just wore all black and wore black eye makeup to look gothic-ish. haha. not very successful i must say. haha! oh well but it was quite fun dressing up. and ppl came to my room to use my make up.. and we were taking lots of photoss. haha of cos my camera ran out of battery the moment i reached the party o_O (As usual) and i borrowed kenny's camera. but of cos he hasn't sent me the photoss. but i'll upload it as soon as i get them. promise! hehe.

lalalala. have a happy day today.

it's 12.27am. it's 12 degrees. pretty warm already i guess. haha compared to the morning anyway.

yesterday started off brilliantly but ended disastrously.
skipped my friday diet of gym for a politics talk but the hall was too full so they din let us in. went home to skype but wireless connection died. went to pay my easter accom but they want to close the till and told the queue to go home o_O like wth man.

yess. but i've done referencing for one of my bookiess. 3 more books and a few journal articles to go o_O haha i don't feel like slping now though (nor doing my essay as u can tell)

i uploaded lots of newie photoies.

yess huiyan i miss u too!! take caree. i'll reply ur email soon =) yes and peixi and iris and yongjengs and chongs and ahh so many ppl. i gif up.

kyoo wa samui~ ki on wa godo desu!!

was supposed to be quite happening today and go for a politics talk by alastair campbell BUT we arrived too late (although on time) and the hall was full o_O pissed. i feel so unaccomplished now and i refuse to look at my essay again. he! dunno what i'll do thoughh. i feel like wandering aimlessly aboutt, but the sky looks threatening o_O

maybe i'll do my essay...

kyoo wa ni-jyuu-roku nichi desu. samuii~ tenki wa ame tokidoki kumori desu =(

i'm so happy cos i'm nearly done with my essay. i haf the *drumroollls* conclusion left =) yay. and i have like 200 words before i break the word limit. damn. how does one write a short conclusion? my essay is like my typical composition. a long, careful start with precise diction tapering towards a meandering, careless end with a hasty conclusion. ah well, that's a habit i got to change, and i've identified it, so that's half the battle. wheee~ err well ya. i hope i do well for my essay. man i sound like i so haf no life!! i've been talking about my essay non-stop for AGES.

i feel like going for some scottish mp talk. (amazing how i dun go for singapore rallies and i go for this) it's due to the upcoming scottish electinos i think. and it's for a climate bill. u noe, implementing policies for environmental sustainity instead of mere capitalism, all profit and no consideration. lol. oh yeahh. i'm begininng to regret not doing economics. huiyany huiyan, can u believe i have so much econs to learn, EEKS. and i was reading up on classical, neo-classical economists, keyness. our fav john maynard keyness. adam smithhss and jean-baptiste sayy. it was quite funny cos i wanted to say J.B. Say said something. and somehow it was in the present tense o_O or maybe future tense. so it was like Say says blahblahblah. halloween is coming. i feel like dressing up but i'm very stingy and refuse to buy fancy costumes o_O i mean i'm like 19? but anw there're quite a few halloween partiess. i want to go BUT i've nth fancy to wear. haha~ yay there's so much to look forward to after my essay. ohh i was supp to go for a performance by the rembrandt dance company, but nurul doesn't want to go now cos she wants to do her essay, and i dislike to go for performances alone =( eeks. ah well. =(

morning =) it's the 25th, wednesday. it's a truly gloomy day. my phone beeped at 7.30am and i was like 'no way', cos the sky is black. how can it be morning when the sun isn't out? guess that's one thing i'll have to learn to get used to. or i can just have really late breakfasts =P

24th was yeun mi's birthday. on monday, we went to yy's room for the study group that jeffer proposed. doubt much studying went on in there though. haha. i was making a card for yeun mi! and i figured how to write 'happy birthday' in korean. so proud of myself. hehe. okie then jo and i met up with the rest of the koreans and japanese and we sneaked up to yeun mi's room and knocked on her door at 12am. i was terrified tt the fire alarm will go off despite masaya's constant assurance. haha. well it didn't. not even when she blew out the candles, not even when we attempted to relight the candles with a gusty wind blowing in from the window, sending black smoke swirling ominously towards the smoke detector!! cos yeun mi wanted to take a photo of the cake with litted candles.
This are yeun mi's pretty birthday cakess. kirei ne~

The japs and the koreanss =) looking at jo's camera. err yea i got to get the photos from her. minna wa ureshii ne =) chiooo waku waku =)

it's the 22nd. a really pretty sunny day.
the past few days have been drizzly and cloudy.
upstairs somewhere, someone's playing his electric guitar and singing.
i hear snippets of conversations: i want to write my essay. outside my door.
and yeah, i've spent the past week holed in my little room, reading loads, so i can do my essay =(
man i have no life. haha.

today is the 21st already, it's 1am. it's pouring heavily.
and just as i was typing this, it err stopped o_O how odd.

yesterday was a long day.
a day of runaway boyfriends, crying girlfriends, of fire alarms, of drizzles, of fireworks in the sky, of ups and of downs.
amazing what one night can hold.
i'm tired.

hey =) long time no post =) been really busy lately. politics is crazy. they just dumped us an essay due 2 weeks later (less than 2 wks now!!!!) worth 20% of our finals o_O when we haven't really done much AND i've to prepare for a group presentation on quebec this friday. AH. frantically researching, reading and formulating. anw just to update on xin's trackss.

last saturday night, we had a movie marathon, it was me, jo, nurul and kenny. it was hilarious. we rented casanova cos we had nth to do at night andwe felt like doing sth, but the ancient dvd player in the common room wasn't working, so we went to my room and played it on my laptop which had the largest screen. then we felt like watching MORE, so we rented flightplan as well. then jo went to slp. then we went to nurul's room to watch rent, kenny slept after the opening song o_O and i watched lion king till i fell aslp o_O haha. returned to my room at 6am and slept until like 2pm the next day and conveniently missed brunch o_O so i had to make stuff to eat o_O and hence my sunday was wasted =P

monday and tuesday and wednesday, frantically researching and reading and researching and reading. i currently have like 3 books sitting at home, i've only read 1 (the other 1 was useless and i returned it (after reading all 129pgs of it)it was interesting nonetheless). did i mention that politicians LOVE to use long bombastic words? i had to check up eveyr other word. i swear the average word length is like fifteen letters. they use the most obscure terms. i guess i'll haf to learn too =( and today i'm meeting my grp to discuss quebec and i err haven't read ANYTHING about it. haha. i'll haf to catch up during my breaks later =P

oh yeahh i received my parcel on wednesday. thanks momm =) i love the clothes. i wore a white soft sweater today and my friend says it's nice =) though another fren said i look like a little lamb! like LAMB! okk. nvm. i spent the whole of wednesday trying to decide where i can put all my clothes and ararnging my whole wardrobe again =) *smiless* time-consuming yet enjoyable =) and monday night i received a letter from peixiiiiiiiii =) so happy. i love seeing mails in my mailbox. and wednesday night i received the long-awaited letter from rui and nic =) yay. i errr have been tardy in my reply. but err i'll hafta write my essay first =) yay. i think i'll haf to go download a pdf converter. i think i've to change my essay to pdf format. don't ask me why. stupid system. haha.

anw time to go back to reading and reading and reading and readingg =( sux.

saturday is farmer's market day =)
i bought some gorgeous (and expensive) chocs. i couldn't resist. okay i'm like savouring this passion fruit truffle now. it's heavenly. it looks heavenly. it's a white chocolate ball, an artistic aberration of a sphere, that has golden powder sprinkled lightly over it, so it glistens in the morning sun =) u bite into it, there's a crunch, and ur teeth sinks into the a rich filling of passion fruit truffle. oh, the glorious taste of it! i'm quite sad now that the whole thing is in my tummy =)

i bought 4 other flavours, blackberry, strawberry, whiskey! and and. erm i can't rmb. espresso! haha. BUT i met friends on my way home, and being the nice person i was, i offered some to them, and i have now lost the strawberry and either the whiskey or espresso one o_O sad =( i love chocolate. i spent more than 10 pounds on food at the farmers' market today, pure delicious snackss =) yummy. and i wonder why i'm getting fat. haha!!

thursday is a busy day (but not if i pon the last lecture which is what xin plans to do forever~)
today is SO sunny it's impossible. i wonder if there'll be a blue moon tonight.
it's jap society night again! but i'm not going this time. it's a pub quiz and you gotta pay to go, so too bad. haha. my friends all not going too cos we're all decent non-drinkers. well non-excessive-drinkers anw. yays so i'll be free to think about my essay due in two weeks. DIE. haven't even chosen the question. ah. someone ans me. what on earth is the personal is the political anw? gah. and my notes suddenly have econs termss: comparative advantage will thus give way to absolute or competitive advantage. i'm like err. that's nice.

ANW something exciting happened today. not exciting per se. but well. i'll go on. i was walking home with a friend (as usual) and she bumped into another friend of hers. and then we were talking, and i was like, so how do u noe 'my friend', do u live in the same house? (my residence is like split into many houses! of which my fren's was the nicest and i nv fail to complain about the unfairness)and he was like 'no i live in blahblah house'. and i was like 'wow, can't be, so do i' and then he goes 'strange i nv see ya around, which floor do u live in' and i was like 'first', and he was like 'omg' and he kinda like spluttered and like asked 'do u happen to live like in room blahblahblah' and i was like 'omg, are u like my NEIGHBOUR?! are u (his name)' and he was like 'haha nice to meet u' o_O

that proves how antisocial i haf been since i've arrived. man i don't even recognize my next-dor neighbour. pray let me remember how he looks so i can at least wave and say hi next time without totally embarrassing myself like today o_O

and i still haven't solved the riddle of the mystery gift. oh wait i haven't blogged about it. here goes:

wednesday morning. i woke up at like 8plus then changed and brushed and showered and everything basically, then hurriedly left my room only to find a little pluto plushie hanging on my door handle outside with a tag on it that has my name printed on it and some artistic design in the background o_O scary. i've been asking around, and it's like from none of the singaporean/malaysian gang. and i'm not like close to anyone else i think. except maybe the jap girl. i think i'll ask her some time..

today is wednesday, my slack day.

i was supposed to go to the gym on sunday but i didn't o_O

saturday, my seniors had a flat party, with yummy food, like wraps and nachos and finger food they made themselves. it was gorgeous. haha. i think i ate a lot. erps. went home pretty late, but decided not to go clubbing with them at 'espionage'. i kept hearing esplanade, which was quite funny. hurhur. but the clubs here have free entry, so shoik one. cos they noe the uk people will definitely drink =)

sunday, went shopping (as usual) and it was huiqi's birthday. happy birthday to u! so justin, her bf from glasgow (but who's perpetually here) held a celebration for her at night. he bought this HUGE chocolate cake, topped with mars bars chunks and slathered with chocolate icing, and the cake wasn't cake, it was like chocolate i swear, though it looks like sponge. then there were chocolate bits everywhere. ahhH. and i ate a huge slice. ok i didn't finish it cos i was feeling so sick at the end. haha. and there was still leftover. but it was quite sweet cos we all hid in someone's room, borrowed a lighter from our neighbour cos none of us smoke, covered the smoke detector, so we won't have to run out in the middle of the freezing night after lighting the candles, and switched off the light. then her bf led her blindfolded into the room, and we suddenly burst into song. she didn't suspect at all, which was really cool. haha. it was so nice.. we sat around and talked until like midnight or something. haha. everyone was so happy and everything. maybe it was that that made me realize these people will be my 'family' here. every night after school, i'll go 'home' and these people will be the ones who are there. i'm so glad we clicked. i can't imagine how it will be if my 'home' is full of amiable strangers. how strange that would be. they are my third family, after my real family, after my beloved rgssb family and this is my edinburgh family.

monday was boring.

tuesday a friend came to my room for a pillow talk. haha, that's what she called it. and it's so strange, how we know each other for barely a month and now we're confiding our fears in each other. i'm so glad i found these people. now i know where i can find a hug or a listening ear when i'm down. i feel blessed =) and it made me appreciate u guys in singapore a lot, a lot more, all the little things we do for each other, that is so hard to do now.

ok i think today will be another boring day. haha! but who knows?

PS hope rui is fine! heard she was injured while cycling o_O take care guyss..

Today is a gloomy Saturday. Weather's getting chilly cos it's autumn. Winter is in another 3/4 weeks' time. But xin is still okay with the temperature (other than the mornings). Xin wore a skirt and boots clubbing yesterday! Okay I want to be systematic:

Thursday is a pretty cold day as well. Boy do I have a knack for understatement. Anyway, xin had a long day at school from 12 - 6 but xin happily ponned the 5-6 lect and went home after the 3-4pm lect. erps. then i went for the japanese society thingy at the Peartree Inn, which is this pub, got to know a few Japanese and I saw the big glorious moon, which reminds me of mid-autumn festival tomorroww....

Friday was horribly cloudy in the morning and nicely sunny in the afternoon. After gymming, Iwent home in a short-sleeved shirt because it was so warmm =) and nice. Ask Rui. It'S the kind of weather we had in Cambridge. Sunny and nicely windy. Then went to lunch/dinner? at biblio! which is this restaurant/bar with the tampines mp! but i was err a bit late, and sat at the far end and couldn't really take part in the discussion but i think she asked us for feedback to the governmetn which is really cool, like i don't know, haha, that we are actually important enough to err meet the mp. i think she footed the bill for lunch/dinner. erps. oh man i sound so bimbotic. ok. shut up. then we trooped off to a senior's house. it's HUGE and they pay only 275 pounds per person. it's HUGE i tell u, one guy's room is like the size of a living room, with a couch and 2 sofas, a humongous bed (wonder whyy) and a FIREPLACE! now i think my room is small. haha. anyway, they're having flatwarming on Saturday night then we can all go for free food again =) *smiles* Went to celebrate mid-autumn at St Augustine's Church. (after crashing someone's room to eat chocolates and half a tub of ice cream. yum. ) we ate moon cakes!!!!!!! ok, i was a bit worried i wouldn't get any, but we had lots, cos we knew the event organiser. HAHA. it's nice to know ppl. yay. and we trooped off to a club which had free entry before 11, so we went right before 11 and stayed till about 1plus. by the time i reached home it was like 2am o_O the music was not err very good. some people say it's cos it's a female dj. maybe. but it got better, and a bit more like singapore clubbing music. but it's true ppl dress VERY well here. (other than the asians who went with me, NO ONE was wearing jeans ok, like NO ONE) you know sometimes, in the middle of the freezing night, people wear halter and mini skirt and heels and walk out of the accomodation to the clubs which are at least a gd half an hr's walk cos to put ur coat in the claokrooom it costs ONE pound. sux. haha. but i'm not going to do that man. it's MAD. but anw, ppl here don't really dance, it seems, they like drinking a lot. the koreans danced quite madly though. haha i'm a bit amazed =) oh well, next time, i got to go to a bigger club and see.

xin feels compelled to go check out the nightlife in edinburgh but xin wishes she had better company =( i miss u guys..

yay. i post so frequently =)

today is a gorgeous day after all. it's 13 degrees now. i can sit in my room in a spag strap with the windows open. the sun's invading everywhere and the plants are gently swaying in the breeze. i want to go out jogging around the hill or have a picnic or something but EVERYONE i know is having class now =( sucks.

BUT anyway i feel really happy today =) i don't know why. maybe it's the weather. maybe cos i have so much time. i feel like doing everything all at one go. haha. little things. like the girl sitting next to me in class telling me she really likes my bra strap. or like how i got to know someone else doing both japanese AND international relations! and how people talked to me today (uk people) like i belong, like i'm not an international student if u get what i mean. usually, they ask me where i'm from, and go like 'wow, singapore' (and probably thinking 'so where the hell is that') but today, we just talked about normal stuff like lectures and like bitching about lecturers. HAHA.

today is really beautiful. i don't know how to describe it. maybe it's the way the green of leaves and grass looks like it's glowing. and the barely perceptible but constant motion of the plants. (did i mention my room overlooks TONS of vegetation?) and the beautiful blue sky. azure. peaceful. serenity. yet vibrant all together. it's amazing. i miss the rgssb girls =) i miss the clargals! and i miss tuan =) i want to show all of u this but it's not merely a visual thing so there's no point in me taking a photo. it's the whole atmosphere. the smells. the touch of the breeze. i want to share all these beautiful things with you!

i woke up to a morning swirling with mist. when we spoke, puffs of mist were emitted from our mouths. the not-so-faraway castle-like building (they call st leonard's hall) was partially veiled. the sky was grey and dreary. the temperature was 9 degrees celsius.

over breakfast, the clouds in the sky vanished and sunlight cascaded down upon the mist. it seemed like the whole field was covered with sparkles of light off the morning dew. The grass on the hill was a glorious green and the sky promised of a good day.

and NOW, the sky is overcast again but the mist has cleared. the sun barely peeps through and the outside is still and dark.

someone, tell me WHY the weather changes SO rapidly here. so how am i supposed to decide what to wear? yesterday i went out when it was sunny, so i only brought a thin sweater, but it was FREEZING in the evening when i returned o_O no wonder everyone's been catching the fresher's flu. gAh.

autumn is here!! it's getting cold. the weather is amazingly unpredictable! i woke up freezing, painfully dragged myself out of bed! but after breakfast, it was amazingly sunny and warm. haha. ok then i went to school, pleased with the weather. AND THEN after the lecture, it was pouring. like really pouring!! haha. ok numerous things happened but i can't quite recall *beams*

sat. xin went to the farmers' market which was really nice and farmeyy. they had homemade jam and spice cake and cheese and yummy burgers and thingys called borders' tablet which is essentially caramel i swear but it's heavenly. they haf such lovely things i was sampling like all the jams they haf a million flavours i swear. i bought raspberry. it's DAMNnice. haha the lemon marmalade is damn nice too. so is like the three berries preserve =) and blackberry and blueberry and lemon curd and elderflowerr. it's amazing. whee~ ok i shld stop it. ya u get the idea..

okk i can't quite remember the rest. OH i had a picnic on the grass. and there were these 2 REALLY cute girlss. haha who kept disturbing the ppl playing football. so in the end they relented and passed the ball to her =P SO CUTE! haha~ err ya but. i think the rest of the day was quite mundane. OH and i bought a red and white skirt tt looks singapore-ish - so my frens say o_O haha~ oh well.

ok that's all for this rainy night.