just came back from school. gosh. half way thru the exams liao. 2 more papers to go. today was pure torture. i was sick. sigh. got a cold, horrible runny nose, sore throat, cough. and a few days ago got slight fever. i think i did darn badly in today's papers. sobsob. i was kinda stumped for genes. i studied for that one ok. but still. the stupid mcqs all looked correct. sigh. english was a little better. but not that much. i'm sure i screwed up. the thingy about the verbs was horrigible. i had no idea how to explain why such and such a thing is something. sigh. for eg, why is a noun phrase called a noun phrase and not a pronoun phrase. know what i said? i said cos a noun phrase has a noun at its head. *dotz* die lah. fail lah. sigh.

anyway, collected my choir 'gown'. gown in inverted commas cos it's not really a bona fide gown. it's a 2 piece. ivory top and green and gold batik skirt. not that bad i think. but it definitely makes me look darn fat. but what to do? anyway, it's one of the nicer choir gowns i ever wore. the skirt was a bit long so the tailor had to take it back to alter. but today when i tried it, it still seemed long. but the tailor said it's ok. so, ok.

mother's being unreasonable again. here's the story. today i'm in school till 7.30 to collect my choir stuff. and i'm supposed to meet dawn to collect the psalm stuff in church. i can't be in 2 places at the same time. so i dispatch andrew to go meet dawn for me. and apparently dawn passed him some psalm book to pass to daryl, which he did. and meantime, because he's got the psalm book with him, and the sunday missal and the 2 photocopied stuff, for some reason, he couldn't go buy fruits like mother wanted him to. says he got no hand to carry. tho imo, he's got plenty of hand to carry, no excuse lah in other words. so when i get home, i get scolding cos of that. actually i don't know what's the whole story. i only gather what's happening in between scoldings. (andrew has yet to tell me the whole story) and so i'm real pissed off now. as if it's my fault like that. you think i can control what happens all the time????!! so i get blamed cos dawn just happens to come down on the day that i'm not free. *rolls eyes* hey, if i had my way, i would have got this done long time ago. just that i don't ok. whatever. damn angry now. i tell you, there's no use arguing with unreasonable people like this. btw, i still don't know what da hell i was getting scolded for.

anyway, let's move to more happy stuff. fass was sending round email about student exchange. haha! excited. wanna go exchange! but it'll be more fun to go together with friends. i guess i get the notion from seeing jenica and friends. they come to nus for a sem, rented a flat in west coast and lives together. so cool! how about it peeps? wanna? i was looking at the unis that fass offers for exchange (haven't finished reading the other resources yet). not many has more than 1 or 2 places tho. UC berkley and another UC campus is offering 10 places each (this is uni wide. watever that means). UNC chapel hill offering 12 places in arts. that'll be fun to go to. parents are kinda ok with me going exchange. but they were not so subtly hinting that i should go to melbourne u. erm...not really keen on that one. i rather go US or England actually. but see how lah. betcha in the end, it'll be like my exercise programme. never materialised. sigh. but still, (to sumi, duan hui, jasmine, su hui, wen hui) how? wanna go together?

other stuff. erm...there is a cat infestation at my block. a whole family of cats have decided to take residence here. just now, when i was coming back, i was waiting for the lift. there was this small girl and her mother also. suddenly i felt something brushing against my leg. at first i thought it's that small girl playing. and i look down. and it's the stupid cat brushing up against me. darn it. lucky i was wearing jeans else i would have screamed to have a furry body rubbing against me like that. stupid cat!!!

i came across this really cool song! called "angels among us". it's so sweet.

Angels Among Us
by Alabama

(Spoken)
I was walking home from school on a cold winter day
Took a shortcut through the woods, and I lost my way
It was getting late, and I was scared and alone
But then a kind old man took my hand and led me home

(Sang)
Mama couldn't see him,
Oh, but he was standing there
And I knew in my heart,
He was the answer to my prayers.

Chorus:
Oh, I believe there are angels among us
Sent down to us from somewhere up above
They come to you and me in our darkest hours
To show us how to live, to teach us how to give
To guide us with the light of love.

When life held troubled times,
And had me down on my knees
There's always been someone
To come along and comfort me

A kind word from a stranger, to lend a helping hand
A phone call from a friend, just to say I understand
And ain't it kind of funny at the dark end of the road
That someone lights the way with just a single ray of hope.

Chorus:
Oh, I believe there are angels among us
Sent down to us from somewhere up above
They come to you and me in our darkest hours
To show us how to live, to teach us how to give
To guide us with the light of love.

They wear so many faces,
Show up in the strangest places
To grace us with their mercy,
In our time of need.

Chorus:
Oh, I believe there are angels among us
Sent down to us from somewhere up above
They come to you and me in our darkest hours
To show us how to live, to teach us how to give
To guide us with the light of love.

To guide us with a light of love...