today, yesterday, and maybe before the day before

probably a long one.

today. not too bad. happy. I FINISHED MY RP REQUIREMENTS!!!!! woohoo! 12 credits over and done with. never again will i go up to that board to go cuckoo over which experiment is good, when i can do, how many credits it has. muahahaha! have to say, psych is not what i expected it to be. maybe it's the way michael and the other one teaches it. i think they're horrible lecturers. btw, i dramatically failed my psych mid term. but at least, the mark is a positive number and not a negative grade. haha. just have to do better for the lab reports and final. and then, i'm not gonna take psych modules anymore liao.

and then. EN. today the first essay draft was due for proofreading. me and joseph were exchanging essays. and well, after dr wee went through her requirements, i think mine isn't so good after all. suddenly i realise how much crap i'm talking. so this means, either tonight or tmr, going on a marathon rewriting of my essay. sigh. what to do? don't wanna risk my grade. joseph did the ad for the honda civic. the one with the choir doing the advert. haha! well, there's a reason why i didn't do an ad analysis. that one is really cool to watch, but i think it's horribly difficult to find something intelligent to say about it, so kudos to him for churning out a 4 pg essay on it.

EL. thank goodness i forced myself to prepare the tutorial last night and this morning. cos that peter tan went round the class to ask for answers. haha! still haven't explained my absence from tutorial 2 weeks ago, so there goes my 100% attendence mark. the test was ok. partly, can be done without referring to notes if you study hard enough. but, me being me. haha! i was crapping. hope that he doesn't use negative marking. he's so cute. today's tutorial, he showed up wearing suspenders. haha! so weird. usually it's the little bow tie, but suspenders?! rofl. and the class was making fun of his slang/accent. asking him how ppl react when he orders from hawker center or something. haha! his own fault for setting a question about slanging. can tell, he was kinda awkward about it. poor fella.

and on the way home, i saw mr pang at KR terminal. and he got up the same bus as me (10) and he sat in the seat in front of me. and...drumroll... HE REMEMBERS MY NAME!!!!!!!! oh my god. now that's what i call a really dedicated teacher. i barely know him and yet he knows my name after all these years. ok, 1 year and a bit. and best part, i was never his student, just one of those in the choir he's in charge of. ok, maybe he remembers cos me and toh ying sometimes took the same train home with him. (he lives near my place) haha! anyway, i always find it freaky when teachers remember you when you hardly ever talked to them.

just saw this on the david copperfield board. david's father, hyman kotkin, passed away last thursday. don't know what to say. just wanted to mention it here. he's probably had a very good life. rest peacefully now. thank you for all you've done for us and for david. bit sad that he didn't live to see his only son get married. hint hint to david.

moving on, yesterday. monday. well, choir was fun! wei wei was nagging us about how we look like we're beating mosquitoes, and just escaped from a torture chamber. haha! kwei came down and did the 1st half. well, i can memorise the 1st half liao, thank god. happy that don't have to sing "ascendo". anyway, so just the 2nd half left. gotta really sit down and memorise "roads". fyi, my horoscope said that romance is in the air. IT LIED. haha! the only thing vaguely, and very very very very vaguely romance oriented was joseph trying to chase dharini away after choir so that he could talk to me about the essay. muahaha! oh ya, kwei made us lie down on the floor and sing "blessing glory and wisdom". that went ok, except the alleluia-amen parts that we never fully memorised anyway. fun.

oh ya, and i was trying to edit my essay along the walkway and was interrupted twice. first was by this guy selling some donation tickets for some children's home. and sucker that i was, i bought from him. $2 gone. haiz. given the experience at juice, i think i'd try and help these poor exploited ppl when i can. btw, his pitch was very very bad. anyway, 2nd interruption from these 2 girls. from some campus christian group. first they ask me to fill in some survey. in which the da vinci code featured prominently. interesting part, there was one qn asking me about my religion. so i put catholic. and then, they asked me if i saw this booklet before "what you see is not all you get". one of those christian booklets. anyway, then, this girl started to go through the ENTIRE booklet with me. stuff like how sin is keeping man away from god, and how jesus is the bridge to bring man back to god and how it's impt to live a christ centered life etc etc. the poor girl was reading every single word in the booklet. and i tried to tell her that, hey, i'm a catholic, i already got jesus as my saviour, you can save your breath trying to convince me to accept him again. sometimes i wonder if they actually know what they're doing or if they just think they do.

sunday. tried on my new choir shoes. god, it was pure torture. note to self: wear stockings to vv. i liked the resp psalm. finally a time when i didn't go hoarse at the stand. dawn was trying to teach marion how to play the organ properly. yup. she's improved i think. supposed to go for lynette's confirmation. but stayed back to squeeze out the essay.

saturday. such a tiring day. first, dragged myself to siglap for the shah alam grp practice. arrived at 11.30. sat around and got stared at by the vj choir till 12 when wei wei, huijun and mei si appeared. no one else was there yet. sigh. in the end, the grp was so small, it was pathetic. came down early for nothing. could have stayed home and sleep a bit more. anyway, rest of the choir began trickling in at 1. trickling cos the attendence was still quite pathetic. sang some songs, then went for the 'workshop' with vj and vc. didn't know zofia was in vc. anyway, kwei made us sing "blessing, glory and wisdom", "sweet honey" and "dokin". wow. i forgot how scary the siglap hall was. i couldn't hear the rest of them lor. thank goodness he didn't make us do "lily". we'd probably go to pieces. how did we manage it the last time?

then after choir there, go home and prepare for the other choir practice. i seriously can't wait for vv to be over. anyway, go to church and discover that the altar boys are having bbq in the car park. wonderful. which means that no one will be in the mood to sing. and being the low energy level that i was, frankly, i didn't care either. which is a bad thing i know. anyway, at 7.30 there was only a small handfull of people. so, when i finally decided that we'd learn "ashes", go thru tmr's hymns and go home, the guys decided to show up. anyway, me feeling very very sian liao. taught them "ashes" then suggested that they think up parts for themselves. they were SO enthu about it. fr khoo came up and looked in on us and they were huddled together trying to harmonise. thank god khoo came up at a time when they were doing serious choir stuff. anway, khoo started some crap story as usual then, got round to inviting us to the bbq. yups. anyway, like i said, went through the motions then went home. really have to get down to proper stuff when vv is over. note to self: ask khoo about easter vigil sequence.

did i talk about theo yet? that girl ah. make me angry only. she was supposed to meet me to return me my stuff that she borrowed when i was still in jc. which is more than a year ago. so, i let her decide what time we'll meet. and she shows up 1 hour late. or rather, i left after waiting an hour. she didn't even call me to tell me that she'll be late. i had to call her. and she had the nerve to tell me that she got lost cos it's raining (which it wasn't). and i got in trouble with the parents cos of her. partly my fault too lah. i should be more assertive about it. but she should also be responsible mah. anyway, then she called me to berate me for leaving. *rolls eyes* hello? you're the one who's over an hour late. anyway, i made her come to my house to return my stuff. and she didn't return all either. just my gown and the photos, and the JNT cd. everything else is still with her. gosh, if i wasn't at home...i'd really give her a piece of my mind sia. i specifically told her i want my cds back by march. march is less than 4 hours away. she's still not returned them. haiz. huge memo to self: never ever lend anything to theodora goh again.

i don't remember if i said this yet, probably not but anyway. sad to say, i succumbed to temptation and stuck my foot in my mouth again where my guy is concerned. again. *someone slap me* here's what happened, my friend finally decided to take matters into her own hands and wrote to him to tell him that i'm still waiting for his answer. and on v day (of all days. sigh) he wrote back to me. a very simple message. still not answering the question btw. yup. anyway, recently, i succumbed and wrote back to him. and i stuck my foot in when i (sorry about this my friend who wrote to him) told him that i don't want him to be obliged to write to me if he doesn't want to. cos before, i told him that i'd leave him alone if he wanted. and i think he's made it pretty clear his intentions. so...just move on.

last stuff. was looking at "the crucible" on imbd. remembering that yasmin never got round to returning me my vcd. anyway, some memoriable quotes to remeber the days in mrs pearce's class. lots more but i don't remember much. "heaven and hell grapple on our backs and all our old pretence is ripped away! and the wind, god's icy wind, will blow!" love that one, "question abigail williams about the gospel,not myself", "because it is MY NAME!!!!! because i can never have another in my life!!!!!" and the best "mr parris, you are a BRAINLESS man."