This is gonna be a really really really long one. Lots to talk about. By rights, I should be studying, given that I slacked the entire weekend. But still.

My love-hate relationship with Mondays

I both love and hate Mondays. Weird right? Let me explain. Firstly, I love Mondays because I can finally get out of the house, there’s English tutorial, Maths lecture and Choir! Yay! Then, I hate Mondays because I can’t stay at home and slack, there’s Maths tutorial and Choir. Heeheeehee. Well, I guess getting out of the house is something everyone feels about. That’s why they call it Monday blues I guess. Reason why choir is in both categories is cos, well, first, I love choir. Really I do. I look forward to it. I can sing and listen to that beautiful music. Can get high on it. Laugh and have fun with my choir mates at the same time. Then, I hate it because it ends so late. Monday is already such a long day for me already. They always drag it way over time. If I didn’t stay so far and have to worry about catching the bus, I’d love to stay back too. But as it is, I really have to catch the bus.

The previous practice, I had lots of useless exercise. Firstly, someone told me that the shuttle out of PGP was leaving soon. So quickly run to the terminal, where Paulus told me that that person had mixed up the timing. The bus wasn’t leaving for a while yet. Sigh. Then, as the bus approached the central library, I saw the 151 in the distance. (I take 151 to and fro. It’s more convenient than the MRT.) So quickly rush off the bus, dashed across the road in the futile attempt to catch the bus. Well, I didn’t catch it. And I was in a rush to get back. Supposed to meet Jean and group at 11 on msn to discuss our cultural studies stuff. Anyway, I sat at the bus stop and waited. The next few shuttle buses came and went. Some of the seniors who left later than me arrived at the bus stop. If I knew, I wouldn’t have run for the shuttle. Anyway, it was almost 10.20 before the 151 finally arrived. Sigh. Tiring.

Choir practice

Choir practice is fun. I love it, as I mentioned above. Anyway, now preparing for the Shah Alam trip. That’s so expensive btw. MJ people, count your blessings that Miss Lai is nice enough to subsidise so much for you. I gotta pay $200 down payment by this Thursday. No money liao. Anyway, back to the choir practice. Wei Wei did the “Sweet Honey Sucking Bees”. I had no idea about the real meaning behind that song. Heehee. My dirty mind, cultivated by 2 years doing Shakespeare and Donne, was working overtime after finding out the meaning. Haha! Go figure it yourself. The other student conductor (don’t know her name yet) did the wayang kulit medley. And that one sounds quite nice when we combine. Can’t wait to hear what it sounds like when we really start to sing it for competition. :D Started the Jap song too. Don’t know the title of that one. It’s in Jap. That one’s tough. The thing is so fast so we slow it down so much. And it has a weird tune and rhythm too. But can tell, this one is another one that will sound great after combine.

Haven’t seen Kwei yet. Guess he’s busy with other stuff. Or maybe he thinks NUS choir is advanced enough to do self study. Now, we start with sectionals. As usual, quite unfairly sometimes, the sops get to stay in the room whilst the rest of us have to troop all over PGP to get to the rooms. I say it’s unfair sometimes cos when we use function room 5, the room really stinks. Horrible smell. Quite glad to get out of it into some fresh air. Duan Hui still not decided about whether or not to join. She’s definitely not going to Shah Alam. Too late for that. But hope she still can join the choir. Whether or not she’s going for competition. There’re still other performances for sure. (we need to raise subsidies for ourselves financially) And there’s the Varsity Voices concert next year we’ve already started preparing for. The competition songs are some of those we’ll be singing. Looking forward to that. So fun.

EL project

I guess some people have kinda figured out my English project by now. Ok, for those who don’t know, I have to find out how native Singaporeans use the words makan and sotong. And then have to write an essay on it. :p It’s group work btw. First project of my uni life and it’s already so weird. Gosh! Still, it’s history in the making. And it is kinda fun to do. Wonder what other weird stuff she’ll make us do in future. Thinking of doing major in English language. Worst come to the worst, still can be a teacher. Don’t anybody ask me anything about my major. I still haven’t decided. But English Lang, for all it’s flaws, is not that bad after all.

Clossip (see the creativeness of language. Clay + gossip=clossip. Ok, lame)

Lameness aside, I saw this on the clayboard. Figured it would be interesting to speculate a bit. (Speculaaaation, such a faaaaacination) There was a thread where someone was asking, did Clay recently get his heart broken? Cos the sample new songs he’s been singing at JBT were apparently quite heart-wrenching and emotional. And they say that the tone, how he sounds, sounds like he just fell out of love. Specific songs, “Back for More” and “I Can’t Make You Love Me”. Other songs too but I don’t remember. So, they were wondering about Clay’s love life. Does he or doesn’t he have a girlfriend? Did he recently break up? They were suggesting that because of his visits to Aceh, Uganda, his UNICEF trips, Clay, being a sensitive person, was heartbroken after seeing all that misery and stuff. They say that he’s selling his house in LA too. Something about moving back to Raleigh. They were suggesting that personal stuff too, his brother serving in Iraq, his grandfather having Alzheimer’s. But they all agreed that they wouldn’t do anything more than speculate. If he’s really been heartbroken, it’ll be insensitive on our part to pester him about it.

There were 5 pages worth of speculation. Especially about the girlfriend part. Most people agreed that we probably won’t know about that until after the marriage. Something I found really sweet, they said that Clay being Clay would probably try to shield someone he loves from the relentless media barrage. Ok, I’m being a hopeless romantic here. Last time I saw the thread, the last few messages were really amusing. Someone said that if a girl dares break Clay’s heart, she better watch out cos “I’ll break her legs”. Then the next post was “I’ll help!”, followed by “You take the left, I’ll take the right”, followed by “and I’ll hold her down”. Lolz! Such kaypoh-ism.

Ok. All for now. Reluctantly, I return to my work. Sigh.