no time, no time

suddenly i feel like there's no time at all. where's all the time gone?? into my travelling from east of singapore to west of singapore? lectures have started. i've got lectures every freaking day. sigh. hopefully next sem will be less hectic. buying books and all. my lit texts n supplementary reader alone cost $127. and the stupid lady didn't tell me there was a co-op membership i could join that would entitle me to a 5% discount until after i paid for the books. sigh. got the anton maths book too. that was $44 but i got the membership. it became $41. big deal. haha! still have to get the books for language, genes n society and cultural studies. hopefully it's all in the co-op tomorrow. i so don't want to drag it till next week. just get the money part over and done with. i think, all my books will be an easy $200. sigh.

lectures are starting. all the introductory lects this week. except maths. lesson proper has started today. i think i'm going to die. i didn't understand a thing that mr toh was saying. i think i really need to review the webcast but the bad thing is, toh doesn't webcast his lectures. only dr tan does. oh well, it's better than nothing. sigh. sigh. lit lecture was weird. the lecturer was really really really weird. dr gwee. he acted like a cross between a student giving a presentation and irving goh. he got more and more boring as time passed. dr roy wasn't that bad. she started introducing "lolita" to us. but by then, i was already half tuned out so i couldn't copy much notes. which was scary. i mean, what would you do, wen hui on my left was frantically taking down so much notes, yasmin on my right was drawing faces on her foolscap. btw, "lolita" is so... ... ... let's say it's like donne's love poems. humbert humbert is so erotic sometimes, just can't stand it. the front page picture is so suggestive, sometimes i'm embarrassed to take it out and read in public. need to hide the cover. it's a pic of young girl's legs in a short skirt. think jap schoolgirl. and it's just the legs. gosh. and HH's paedophile-ic fantasies in the book are just gross to me. if it were up to me, i wouldn't finish reading the book. but i'm rushing it out for next wed's lect.

cultural studies was fun. not the least bit like GP. like, the study of popular media and it's impact on culture/society thing. the lecturer was cool. dr philips. british guy. i didn't sleep in his lecture. which is a good thing cos cultural studies is a 3 hr lect/seminar. he did superman and comics on wednesday. actually, i've got to confess that i really had no idea if he had actually taught us anything. but it was an interesting lecture. made 2 new friends (out of necessity). jean and kevin. it's out of necessity cos dr philips says that we'll be working in groups and he'll be putting up name lists for us to sign up our groups. so the 3 of us will be working together. met jean first. then she pulled kevin in. wen hui was at the lecture too. she was waving frantically at me but sad to say, i didn't recognise her. it's the new red specs plus the fact that i wasn't that close to her. later on then i realised it was her.

went for the choir audition. jasmine accompanied me. and i didn't prepare my song until an hour before. sang "shout to the lord". and in my opinion i screwed it. i started too high and the high notes screeched. sigh. the audition was scary too. the vp was there and the sc. went into the room, they held an interview. like job interview. i think it was alright. thank god that in the past 6 months i've had interview experience, however disasterous it was. i think they may not put me in A2. cos the sc tested me on scales, he went low as low C which i couldn't reach. and he went as high as high G, which i screeched out. but i definately reached until high F without screeching. i'm hoping that jasmine would change her mind about the choir. she was showing signs of relenting when she accompanied me.

collected my new laptop! yay!! but now, it's pretty dead. there's nothing on it at all. need to install microsoft office. and there's no internet connection at home, as yet. cos i haven't figured out the connection thingy. and i'm wondering what will happen if i use my own user name instead of the nus one. hmm...but i'll play around with it more when i get it connected to the net. just now, i was typing on wordpad, testing out the keyboard. well, it's ok. but cos the T43's got this red button in the middle of the keyboard, it's a bit hard to hit the keys around the area, especially letter B. keep hitting the red button instead. but i'll get the hang of it. soon. i hope.

yup all for now. see lah. i have to resist blogging so much nowadays. i was supposed to use the net to check my ivle stuff esp my maths and see what i ended up doing. :p