day out

well, the holidays are drawing to a close. its amazing how fast 2 wks can zip by when you're slacking.
went on a day trip to Ballarat yesterday with some frens. its about 1 and a 1/2 hours train ride from melb city. the main attraction at ballarat is this place called Sovereign Hill. It used to be a gold mining town back in the 1900s, but now of course no one mines gold there anymore, so it has been converted into a tourist attraction. its all pretty cool stuff. they created this entire mock-up town that looks just like those old western movies.
i'll let the pics speak for themselves...

all aboard... me, lala, esther n steph (and crystal behind the camera)

ballarat!

chillin out

posers

now, now... pay attention children

hey middle guy...stop acting so stiff!

me and my wax friend

sifting for gooooold!

study or comics? i gotta get my priorities right...

that was easy.... COMICS ARE MY PRIORITY!!!!
these two days have been happy days. yesterday, my weekly comic shipment came in and i had 5 brand-spanking-new titles to read. and to add to my joy, the guy at the comic book shop told me that the trade paperback for 'Runaways' was coming in today!! i had ordered it like one month back and have been eargerly anticipating its release, my excitement growing with each passing day. And today it ARRIVED!!!!! wooooooo! i spared no time in racing down to the comic store to pick it up, all 400+ pages of it!!! it did cost me a whopping 65 bucks, but who cares!?? i calculated that if i drink plain water instead of the usual apple juice for the next 2 months, i would have covered that 65 bucks. so that settles that.

now here's my REAL dilemma. i've got two things staring at me now that require my immediate attention, and i cant do both at once.
and in the BLUE corner, we have (ta-da-da-daaaah!)..... a History Essay!!!
and in the RED corner, we have (ta-da-da-daaaah!)..... Runaways Volume 1.



if u know me, u know what happens next....
bah! history essay can wait till tomorrow!... or the day after, or till watever time it is that i finish reading Runaways.

gotta get my priorities right, eh.....

sleep deprivation...

i am really really shag... i mean it. i literally am about to KO on my keyboard this very moment. if i close my eyes for 5 seconds, theres a high chance i'll slip into a coma.

last nite i participated in a "sleep deprivation" exercise. Esther's psychology course was conducting experiments on students to see how things like reaction time, alertness, etc were affected by lack of sleep, and so i decided to volunteer.

As of this moment, i have not slept for 36 hours. i was awake the whole of last nite at Monash University under close surveilance of esther's psychology tutor. i wasnt alone though, there were about 15 ppl participating, esther included.

After fighting off the zzz-monster thru the night, we were subjected to a bunch of tests in the morning. some of them were irritating, and some downright hillarious. let me give u some examples:

1. sit in a dark room for 10 mins and try to stay awake. during which time your brain wave patterns are being monitored by people in another room, via electrodes stuck to your head.

2. click the mouse as many times as possible in 30 secs.

3. (the most irritating and stupid of them all) Play a 2-d car simulation for 30 mins and avoid cows on the road. yes, u heard that correctly. avoid cows. not traffic, .... but COWS. that was the most utterly wasted 30 mins of my life. the car simulation looks like something from the 1970s (see pic below) and after 5 mins u just want to scream "make it stop! make it STOP!", only to realise that u must endure 25 more mins of torment.

after 36 hours without sleep, you'd look like this too...

eeek! look out! cow on road! AVOID! AVOID!

needless to say, i am gonna take a nice long nap now. with any luck, i'll wake up and it will be sunday afternoon.

Singapore Students Society Ball

glam people

cheers!

orang melayu

esther, me, crystal n sasha

kena bully...

the VIP table

oooo...wats that on the ground??

waiting for the glue to dry...literally

its a wet, cold wednesday night. my preliminary model for the dance production assignment is due tomorrow and low-and-behold, as usual... im doing it at the LAST MINUTE!
just finished gluing most of the darn thing together. now have to wait for 20mins for the glue to set before i can start painting it.
they can put a man on the moon but cant invent a wood glue that dries instantly. sheesh.

oddly enought, i had quite a productive day today. spent researching and starting to plan for my history essay. yknow that clichalmost my entire morning from 9-11.30e that goes "the hardest part is getting started"? well, its all true. i felt much much better after getting started on my essay. for the past few weeks (ever since i got the assignment), ive been worrying non stop cos ive never written this kinda essay before. i was like... 2000 words! how the heck am i gonna do that!?! its like a zillion times longer than anything ive written in NS over the past 2 years. oh wait... there was that PAC lesson plan, but that hardly counts. everything in the army is stupid anyway. oh, where was i? oh yeah, so i was worrying myself sick over this essay. but this morning, after diving into it and actually getting a couple hundred words of text typed out, i realised its not that bad afterall, and felt much better.

BUT! then it sunk in that i only had half a day left to do this darn model. and i began to panic again. i tell u, this course is like riding a rollercoaster.... non stop thrills! there's never a week (much less a day) where i can sit back, relax, and honestly say that i have no studying to do. oh well, i guess thats wat december is for. cant wait....

yet another unproductive day to go with the rest of my unproductive days

yes, today was a very unproductive day - study wise at least. i did almost zero work today. lets recap shall we...

1. got up at 8am
2. had a heavy-ass breakfast of rice, chicken n nuggets
3. read a tiny-weeny bit of history
4. got bored and read about 2 hrs of comics
5. went out to buy more comics
6. came home with new comics and started reading them for another hour.
7. went for 26km run in 2 hrs (which was pain as hell... after the 20km mark, i started to get insanely hungry and began fantasising about potato chips. my mental is weak. dunno how im gonna survive the 42...)
8. came home, hands almost suffering from frostbite, and a bad case of abbrasion in a place where the sun dun shine. (i need to buy tights for the race..)
9. had dinner while watching an old episode of smallville
10. chatted on MSN for a while.
11. now typing this blog post.
12. after this i really really need to get some studying done cos ive got a test tmr. but its raining now and my body feels so shag after the run, and i feel like going to sleep. AHH!!! where's Nescafe when i need it...

its crunch time!

went shopping with esther and a couple of her frens on thursday at this shopping centre called Chadstone. its quite far from the city, but its HUUUUUGEE!! i mean, this place makes suntec n parkway seem small in comparison.
i was shopping for a suit for the spore ball, while the gals were lookin for dresses. haha its damn funny cos we all were moving around together, and everytime i went into a mens clothing shop, they followed me. i mean, its not that awkward when i followed them into a ladies store cos there's 3 of them and only one guy which is me. but when 3 gals follow ONE guy into a mens store.....wah pai seh man. hahhaha. i felt bad that they had to wait for me while i was trying on stuff.
found a nice suit there but they didnt have my size, so i had to come back to their store in the city to get it. and i was shocked to discover that i wear xtra small. hahahahaha. yes, in aussie terms i am xtra small!!!

lots n lots n lots of work to do this weekend. gotta start my research for my history essay pronto!! cant leave that to the last min... (though i forsee myself doing so)
and theres still the site report, and the construction tech model, and the portfolio of 21 drawings, and the roof framing tutorial, and the stupid-as-heck dance stage design. (yes, for one of my projects i have to design a stage set for an aboriginal dance production. i was like "wat the..?!??")
im sure i have more to do but i cant quite recall at this moment. at least term break is coming in a wks time.... i really need it to finish all my work!!

gotta get my game face on... its crunch time!

site visit = 4hrs of my life i'll never get back

yello ppl! sorrie its been a while since my last post. nothin that eventful happening ard here lately... jus more work work work.
this weekend went ard melb looking for cool buildings to draw, cos part of the City In History subject involved diagramming 4 buildings in the melb city area. luckily the weather is getting warmer these days, otherwise i cant imagine sitting is a damp, grassy spot for hours drawing a building and freezing to death!! haha that would be quite hillarious though, a frozen statue of me on the front lawn of a building. shit, im getting high... must be the choc chip cookies ive been eating like crazy lately. hey its not my fault...its the darn supermarket. its their fault they put such low prices on the cookies.

oh today went for a site visit to some ulu estate about 20 mins from the city. spent 4 frickin boring hours there. and we had to wear out "phua chu kang" boots and hardhat too. felt like an idiot (no offense to contractors). the builders hard at work must be thinking "who the hell are these young punks running amok at our construction site?!"

and it didnt help that there were insufficient tutors on site. each tutor had to cater to like 30 students who would crowd around him and attempt to grasp what he's saying. after a few mins of squeezing and pushing, i gave up..... and went to get some ice cream from a van nearby. hahaha i think im so gonna fail this subject.

construction professionals hard at work

ahhhh! so much to do n so little time!! n still have the Singapore Society Ball to attend on the 15th n i havent even bought my suit yet. hai... procrastination, procrastination is my friend.