Noooooooooooooooooo

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We need to get a twitter account for COM201 Assignment 1! Danggg.

It appears there's a technical problem though, so that assignment has been postponed till further notice. Thank you =]

WE. ARE NOT. ANNOYING.

Maybe just a few people are. But stop treating us as one homogenous group.

(I still love you though, xkcd.)

'Cos you're awesome!

Today I learnt that the idea for the movie Inception is one of the first few theories in the history of film theory, which makes it about a century old. (I think.) It portrays, very accurately, Hugo Mundenberg's theory that the film is in the mind.

Went for the family photoshoot in the evening, to commemorate my sister's graduation! Photos in a while. It was fun, except for the make-up part.. And we got an interesting cab driver on the way home!

Am watching Casablanca now, but I just HAD to take a break to come here and type out this bit of dialogue:

- "You despise me, don't you?"
- "Oh, if I gave you any thought, I probably would."

Academy Day 2010

Amu left yesterday =\ at least I got to see her at the airport. And Audrey's leaving tomorrow, and I just haven't been able to meet her =(

I realise that I would enjoy Academy Day a lot, if it weren't for the fact that there's school. I worry about the time wasted only because of the huge piles of homework. Otherwise, I'd be perfectly happy to get a chance to see and talk to so many friends, and to joke around and stuff. Reminds me of what it's like to be at camp, somehow. It's a time when eventually, people start talking for lack of anything else to do, and it brings up really interesting conversations. Plus, the whole idea of playing together makes me feel like it's one BIG group of friends, not just different disciplines coming together on one day.

So although yesterday was almost completely a waste of 12 hours, I'm glad I got to talk to friends, especially the mridangam and tabla gang. We would never have talked and joked that much if we weren't all at the same place waiting for something to happen. (And besides, the day wasn't a complete waste because I met some of the gang at the airport at night, which brought back lotsa memories of the guys from Congo =\ ) Likewise, I'm glad I was with the (new generation) violin and flute and veena gangs today, and made friends with more of that huge mridangam group.

The orchestra had a few minor mistakes, but it sounded fine. The alumni dance, for which I was playing, was more obviously careless but I think it still sounded alright. At least there's one less thing to worry about now. 1 down, 4 to go!

Now to finish reading three-quarters of a novel by tomorrow.

"Do you think about me now and then?

Do you think about me now and then?

'Cos I'm comin' home again."

Odessa Steps and old tapes!

Thursdays are Hui Fang days =]

We met up earlier cos we wanted to take a chance and see if the CCA fair was still on, but it wasn't =\

COM201 lecture found the bunch of us second majors from Lit sitting in the back row. I've always found that there's something like a statement made when one sits in the back row ^.^

Was saved from freezing in COM253 by half of Hui Fang's jacket, and by us jotting down countries to research about (cos COM203 demands that we know what's going on in the world) in the first few minutes of lecture. I say that to explain that we DID pay attention.

Battleship Potempkin (the film we watched) - masterpiece of montage. And in my notes, I don't have enough time to write out the whole name so I write BPot. =D

Famous scene from the movie:

And my dad found me his old Simon And Garfunkel, and Cliff Richard cassette tapes! There's something so cool about tapes that CDs don't have.

Things to remember apart from school stuff:

1) Borrow John Green's Looking For Alaska
2) Watch Casablanca
3) Watch 500 Days of Summer
4) Read Terry Prachett
5) Short-story competition?

Had my first lecture with Dr Cherian George today, and he's a great lecturer! =]

An SMS from my homie, in reply to something I'd sent earlier:

O: wah i suddenly realised your msg looks psychotic "k ill"

Homie's one of the few people you can expect such observations from =D And ever since then, I've been trying to use that (k ill...) in as many sentences in my messages as possible.

Nowadays I keep blogging about what I've been up to (this post included). Not good..

The team and their coach, plus Yorghenh from track, and minus Maximus.

Ok I just typed a whole load of stuff here but I cut it to paste before the picture, and realised that Blogger isn't good at pasting cut stuff. Sigh.

In brief - last week was great. This week seems even better.

Got up at 4 this morning to finish the 301 assignment, and all I could think of was how so many people have left already/are going to leave soon. =\

Glad I got to talk to: Colin. Geraldine (thanks for the notebook!) and Alina and Jennifer. Jasmine and Carmen and Lester. Shafie. Fabian. Joel and Keith. Ronnie and Evan. Fadilah.

I'm so glad I'm where I am and nowhere else.