BGM while I do my work.

Sunset off the coast of Western Australia. Feb 2012.
Shot with a Sony Nex 3.

It's been a day of catching up, over email, over whatsapp. Good feeling, talking to the bro =]


Stayed up last night to finish that application. Wonder what will come of all that effort.

I've listened to that one song by Ryan Adams endlessly!

 

When the night is silent and we seem so far away
Oh I love you
And I don't know what to say

 

Had an interesting dream last night/this morning.

After alumni rehearsal (in what seems now to be my old violin room), I was supposed to go down to the auditorium for rehearsal. But somehow it was already over, because I'd spent too much time looking for my costume up in the room.

So we went back up, all the way to the top, and it was a different building,

but I've been to this place before, in some dream.

And there was a playground on top, I almost jumped into a pool, not knowing it was there. And we played catching.

I remember hearing my footsteps in my heart,   almost like I was a playing Counterstrike with myself.




Went back to VJ with Manboy and Vy and Thambiyoi. Reliving four years' worth of good, and some bad, memories.


COM255 groupmates are amazingly awesome.

So is tabla boy.

Why hello there, my old friend.

It's kinda nice to come here after months and find you waiting like a patient friend.

Polka Milk Tea does wonders for me when I needa stay awake - 1 bottle seems enough to keep me completely awake and alert for more than 26 hours now.

Just as good now as it was all those years back

I just saw a streak of lightning that seemed as though it flashed just for me!

So, I now have a smartphone. Have been using it for about a week.

It can be a bit overwhelming at times - synchronising my hotmail and gmail accounts just made a whole lot of information clutter up the place, so I removed them. I don't need to check my email perpetually anyway.

And I got whatsapp, thinking it would be a good way to save money. But I don't like the way information can keep bombarding me from different sources. I like everything in one place, and keeping a record of all my messages chronologically looks like it's going to be a nightmare.. Or maybe the phone is smart enough when I connect it to the laptop. haven't tried yet.

But other than that, it's a nice phone! Very smooth and fast and makes you wanna keep using it. =]

Also, I'm perplexed. So if someone has Facebook, Twitter, SMS, WhatsApp, MSN and any other form of communication (not to mention phonecalls themselves), how does he/she remain sane with so much info pouring in from every corner?!



Also, teacher's words cut deep. Real deep. =\

Bluesssss

Noooooooooooo skype was being problematic and wouldn't sign in, so I had to uninstall and reinstall it, which meant losing the nice version 4.2 =(( I suppose I could go find that version, but I really should be doing my assignments now.

Darn this sentimentalism.

At least it retains the conversations! =]

As if the post-LitFest blues weren't enough, today's good company has left me so distracted, I don't know how I'm going to complete all those assignments...

Postcard to home reached yesterday! =D and vy's postcards just arrived too =]

I really should get Late Night Blues from her. Soon. Perfect for this mood.

from xkcd: Compare and Contrast

"So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee."

compromised assignment =\

A serious, serious case of post-vacation blues. Hopefully I can channel these feelings into the articles.

In all my years of education, I've never dreaded or strongly disliked any subject - at least, not on a sustained basis. This semester changes things though. My assignment feels very shoddy, even to me.

My protests that this is too much for me sound feeble even to me. Maybe it's because I'm overloading and doing 7 modules, but I don't think so... This just isn't my type of writing. Sure, I guess I will improve, but this is going to hang like a deadweight. Like those stalactites at the Mammoth Cave, growing over centuries.

Mansfield Park is a gorgeous read. And more happy news - I found

the third book in the Narnia series at a bazaar today! Woot =D

நீ வானவில்லாக, அவள் வண்ணம் ஏழாக

Had some photos printed today, for CS2006. Ahhh hard copy... =]

Somehow I'm not too excited about Australia. Might be because I have three assignments and loads of reading to complete before I leave, which is in 2.5 days.

Evening

The chimneys, rank on rank,
Cut the clear sky;
The moon,
With a rag of gauze about her loins
Poses among them, an awkward Venus—
And here am I looking wantonly at her
Over the kitchen sink.

- Richard Aldington

I am looking forward to creating that playlist for the trip, though!

"take care.. paapom.. bye!"

We all got too used to your presence here, and your leaving was too abrupt. Hurry up and come back.

Reading a good blog makes me feel like I know that person, and I worry for them when they seem to be going through a tough time.

Hang in there, person-I-may-secretly-be-jealous-of!

Overloading modules doesn't seem to be such a bad idea after all.. I'm secretly excited about the three assignments and one test next week. Plus, I have to prepare for Australia, so this is not the time to be here. Or on Youtube, watching George Carlin.


Go in fear of abstractions. Don't retell in mediocre verse what has already been done in good prose. - Ezra Pound