things

I am tired.

I am posting on a blog. I am creating media. We are all creators of mass media. Even if the content's not original, whenever we do reblog/repost a photo or video, we are embellishing details accumulating to ditch DR.

I saw Aletheia today, dressed up as tribal person? There's another photos online, probzblu.

I typed
"Regards,
Samdra" then I realised.

[Edit] Omg did someone edit my post? I don't remember writing half the things here. Unless I was that tired. /edit

Me again?

It's rare that I'm the one who gets poked by Aletheia with such fervor, and I have to say that i've been busy lately, what with staring at the ceiling, laying on my bed thinking about how peaceful life is, sitting in front of my computer doing nothing.

Should I get a ukelele or a guitar? :D If I get a ukelele I can bring it anywhere, but there's not many notes that can be played; then again, that means it would be easier to learn!

And yet time is priceless!

一寸光阴一寸金，寸金难买寸光阴

Our chinese is not entirely lost! More like a person somewhere strange with no working GPS/3G/map, because said person could always ask a friendly stranger (baidu?) for help, or walk straight till you arrive somewhere, or just lepak there.

My Morphing Malteser Motel is a mix between Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory, a medieval castle, the Room of Requirement, and a posh hotel, owned by no one and everyone simultaneously. With wood panelling and cold floors and fireplaces and black and white corridors and 42 rooms bursting with colors and warmth and a kitchen with a balcony, and anti-gravitational and infinity devices, and books. It'll be made largely out of chocolate, of course, that doesn't melt on you even if you're a stuck-up Indian prince.

I felt inordinately happy when I told the Times salesperson that I took neither GP nor econs. :D

(don't worry I walk out of almost every KI class feeling mind-boggled.)

Time costs money 8D

I sort of imagine economists to be bespectacled earnest nerds, who huddle around in a room poring over figures and graphs, and eventually emerge to inform everyone solemnly that the economy is going to contract by 3% (or something).

Oh I got Time, because I realised I forgot to take home Newsweek's subscription form to ponder over anyway. I subscribed only for a year though, so I can order Newsweek next year. (I do enjoy my weekly Science & Health thing they put in our classtrays back in the good old days.) Equality.

Sicheng! How is the publicity board? :/

YES IKR

I hate calling them curves because pretty soon I'm going to forget that curves are like, curvy.

but then again you do realize that what we're learning now and the graphs we're using is an extremely simplified version of those economists stare at in the real world. So ah well.

Half an hour more to the releasing of CCA trial results, amirite?

Desserts in a deserted hotel, anyone? A side of maltesers?

"Why would we want to be stuck together in a deserted hotel? oO" You may ask. Thought-provoking question.

Because why, it is the most wonderful thing that can happen to anyone! (Or anytwo. Or actually, anythree. Only anythree.) But don't you see: the deserted hotel contains the fountain of youth and fun and laughter and sugar and spice and everything nice.

Everything nice, of course, mainly consisting of us. Maltesers. Maltesers are nice.

If I were in the hotel, you could probably find me in the kitchen snacking. Because snacking and fun and laughter all go hand-in-hand and skip merrily through sunshine and rain and are the best of friends.

(I'm not thinking straight right now. Econs has got to my brain. Why is a demand or supply curve called a curve if it's - usually, mostly - a straight line? Life's great enigmas.)

Sicheng's back!

How's life!

omg Fish reads our posts? How nice of her! she must check in like, once every month.

Imagine if this were a hotel. We'd be damn dead. Aletheia, at the reception counter, wouldn't be picking up the phone calls (not that many people check in anyway) because she's too busy with modelling.
Sandra, being the manager of the hotel, would be too involved in other matters such as saving books.
Sicheng, doing every other odd job, will just be all over the place.

THE HOTEL OF MALTESERS.

So do I!

I ordered Newsweek! Times isn't bad either, though I prefer the tone and selection and spread in the Newsweek. I don't really like Broader Perspectives. It has pretty illustrations, though, so it's really useful for cutting up and using in cards/decorations or for making paper bags. And yes, they are stiff!

YES MORE FUN AND LAUGHTER. Because people (or, more specifically, Fish! though it might or might not count) actually read this :O And because it makes you look younger and not like mona lihahaha! Oh dear I can't think of anything remotely malteser-worthy. Uh..

This shall be a tiding over post.

(black and white are lovely often neglected non-colours, okay. oh let's spray our hair snow white one day! :D)

I feel like posting something

Hi guys.

To counter all the moodiness in the previous few posts, I shall post something trivial!

Times
Newsweek
Broader Perspective

Which to order? (I included Broader Perspective because it has nice covers that are actually stiff. Stiff. I tell you.)

Mona Lihahaha

Don't change your subject combi! Stick with it and trust any issues with your class will iron itself out? Especially with class camp coming up. If you transfer now, you'd have to get used to a new class again and try to break into it with everyone already more-or-less knowing each other etc.

The problem with my OG is that we're supposedly close without really knowing each other, which is what happens what a random group of people are forced to be together for four intense days. I can tell that if not for orientation, I would probably not hang out with any of my OG mates.

(This sounds really bad, but it's not. I still like them, I guess, but it's not quite the same. Shall not delight you guys with any more ramblings.)

(I'm good at this reflection thing heh.)

WE NEED TO HAVE MORE FUN AND LAUGHTER IN THIS BLOG.

Behold! Fun and laughter. Also, disturbing but mostly funny and laughter-y.

And whatever happened to colours? Why black and white? Is this a metaphor for a dreary emotion you have bottled inside you? Come, sit on the e-couch and speak forth.

Um sorry?

I couldn't think of anything remotely decent to follow up the exciting nose posts. How! And I didn't manage to give either of you carrot cake.

I suppose I ever really appreciated how accepting and fun and open and un-discriminating our class was till now! I like my class and my OG and it's new and exciting and scary, but still! Watching what you say is awfully tiring.

(Ahh Sandra I'm quite horrible at this reflection thing ><)

On another lighter note, I would like to make friends with a black unicorn and a white pegasus one day.

Hating on muggers

The only reason people can hate on muggers is because muggers give the non-muggers stress. Using the word muggers too much also results in me thinking of it as that..that harry potter word, what was it muggles? #ignoramus

Currently I'm feeling kind of stressed/scared/whatever negative feeling because next week school is really going to start and there's no time to drift about or relax or think about what direction i'm heading to, except bury myself in piles of work and programs.

SAVE ME. i'm still thinking about changing subject combi, but i guess in the end even though I'm slightly uncomfortable around my class geog > bio simply because sciences are no fun. So I shouldn't change subject combi because of my class. If I say the reason I'm thinking of changing class is because it's too filled with awesome people, it sounds weird but it is true.

What?

IT'S ALETHEIA'S TURN.

Who was the one who (wrongly) poked me for not posting?!

(Sicheng.)

Cue the 'OHHHH' that RI guys always do. Such a different culture. Everything's happening too much, too fast. Too many groups of people to adjust to. Too many decisions to make. Frisbee why your trials are all gone so fast? Good luck, guys.

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(Okay, so I couldn't resist a little reflection.)

School. Oh school ): if we had a abrupt transition to active-mugging/studying it'd be great. But no, we had an extra week of holidays, then JIP, and no school again. Then orientation which was a blast and made us all feel like not studying but expecting to, then a week of semi-school (lectures, no tutorials). Because studying in JC is a lot more self-regulatory and therefore requires a lot more discipline on our part, this strange gentle transition just means that we'd might never get down to proper study life, or at least until it's a bit too late.

I also liked how in 411 there were no clear distinctions between muggers and non-muggers. There are definitely people who study more and those that study less but the 'muggers' would also go for class outings and be high and part of us and the 'non-muggers' would also study (in varying degrees/amounts) even with 'muggers' and so on. No one hates on the muggers and muggers don't hate on the non-muggers or anything.

Not so in RJ (at least, from my experience). There are muggers and there are the people who discriminate against them. I feel kind of in between (because I classify myself to be in between). It feels strange.