the workload's piling up mate. it really is. *sigh*
there's so many things to do but... like what piggy said, "i just can't bring myself to START doing them..."
oh well, maybe i should be at least thankful that i still have the time to rent videos from video dogs... unlike a particular someone (who's just a few metres away from me) mugging day and night at baillieu library... heh... boy am i glad my exams were over in september!!!

was in town again today. gave a dollar to "the singing woman" along the streets of chinatown... it felt really good cos it suddenly hit me that i haven't been giving my "tokens of appreciation" to anyone for a long time... i think ever since i arrived in melbourne. then i remembered the familiar basker guy who's at the orchard mrt underpass everyday, rain or shine... (yup people, the nice blind guy with the accordion, sometimes the keyboard and sometimes the guitar. talk about versatility!!)

then there's also the old woman on a wheelchair at the end of the underpass selling tissue... who happens to be my "favourite", cos i never fail to buy a few packs from her... hee hee. not that i really needed them, but i felt that i needed to do something... it just irks me (well, a little) to see people walk past her without doing anything... i have a very very soft spot for the elderly, i really do.

so folks, in future if you've got some loose change to spare... instead of letting it take up space in your big fat wallets... give it away to the people who need them.
20 cents may not seem much... but as they say, "every little bit helps" =)
and trust me, you'll feel this "warm fuzzy feeling" (thank you, jo... once again) inside you after hearing the coins go "clink" into the little blue bucket... your loose change has been put to good use. (well at least i try to believe so... heh)

sometimes you just wonder if these "less fortunate" people are for real... hmm.. seriously, i can't answer that too...

benefit of the doubt then. ignorance is bliss. hehe.

before i conclude... i'd like to welcome a new reader of this blog... (like i always do when i give my blog addy away to someone new!)...

heya sponkers!! in case you happen to be reading this... haha.. =) hmm... i really like your blog... unique style of writing... and it's pretty cool too!! must update often okay? hehehe.

"hold still... and let your hand melt into mine...." [jars of clay, "fLy"]

sheesh. lotsa things have been happening these few days... you might even be thinking twice about going out for a walk.
firstly, there has been this super big hype about australia being the next target of terrorism after the bali thing. *shriek* it's kinda scary just thinking about it. then it was this person (call him A cos i don't know who he is) who supposedly met an Afghan guy (huh?) at crown casino... and the Afghan guy said to A, who helped him pick up some dollar notes on the floor, "you're a good boy. don't come to crown..." eeks. is that a hint or what?

and just yesterday, there was this madman who shot 2 people dead at monash uni. mum was so worried that she called to ask if i was okay. but she just had to call when i was in the shower... which therefore threw her into a frenzy when both my mobile and house phone weren't answered. aww... mummy dearest.
today, at melbourne uni, i heard there was a bomb threat - a certain brown package was found and i don't know how or why, but it was believed that it contained a bomb.
sounds so mama drama, but it's true. the police came, and the whole of grattan street was blocked. pity i wasn't out there to witness all that. was busy mugging the M&C oral presentation at home with 2 other classmates.

dunman high dawn (haha!) sent me the URL for her blog today! so happening! now i have one extra blog to read, and an extra person to read mine too =) hey dawn, it has been a long time since we spoke to each other... and yes i still remember cheah chak mun and his "heh heh hehs" back in our lower sec days... and darling glenn ong in our upper sec days!!!!! *grinz* keep in touch through blog okay? you're like sooooo far away in manchester!!

girl you are
close to me you're like my mother
close to me you're like my father
close to me you're like my sister
close to me you're like my brother
you are the only one my everything
and for you this song i sing...

[all my life, k-ci and jojo]

it simply excites me to know how piggy will cringe at this song. hehehe.

i apologise for not blogging for the past 10 days. was going through a state of literal depression.
what kind of depression? you might ask.
definitely not one i would wanna talk about anymore... so if you are smart enough, don't ask.

things have been getting better though... minus the fact that i left my favourite *sob* tarepanda pencil case in the lecture theatre last tuesday after HOI lecture. when i went back the next day, it was no longer there... i was kinda wondering who on earth would want that old pencil case of mine? still can't get over it. my favourite tarepanda pencil case, which has been with me for the past few years. plus that blue stapler with the infamous writing belonging to Danny - "Lynn blows!". for your info, i've had that stapler since i was 13. sob.

before u get the wrong idea and start thinking crooked, the "blows" is just there to strike a contrast with "sucks". back in sec 4, an old classmate used liquid paper and wrote "Lynn sucks!" on my stapler. this year, Danny decided that "times have changed" and therefore changed the words to "Lynn blows!" instead. well i don't know if he had other thoughts in mind... but... now now, let's have the benefit of the doubt.

suck. blow. suck. blow.

whichever way you look at these 2 words, they just seem dirty to you, eh? hehe.

well, naturally, that "Lynn blows!" stapler raised the eyebrows of my english teacher when he saw it lying on (of all people!!!!).... Pooh's desk. hehehe.

zhishan is such a dearie. she took all the trouble to help me re-establish my pencil case family.
she bought me pens, highlighters, rulers, and the other what-nots. not forgetting a new pencil case... though it will never replace my tarepanda one. i truly adored it, heart and soul. sigh. no one understands. i bet YOU don't.

just in case you are thinking of getting the exact same one for me, i'm sorry... but it's like kinda sold out already i think. sigh.

oh and if you are wondering HOW my new pencil case is going to arrive in my hands... hehehe...
zhishan will pass the pencil case to Z, after which he will go to the airport to meet knnb's lio (he's coming to melbourne for a short visit!! hooray for knnb!) to pass it to him, and lio in turn will take it with him to melbourne! for me!

aren't these people soooooo sweeeeet? =)

pooh said, "it's just like chewing gum. chew till it loses its flavour. after which you just find a dustbin and spit it out. if no dustbin in sight, just spit it onto the road."
Oooo... wicked. *the sentence has been changed in a certain way, that it retains its meaning and does not offend any... uh... gum lover.* hiakz.

each time when we're alone
i guess i didn't know
how far we were apart
should have spoken to my heart
i guess i didn't know
that each time you go away
i'll cry
i can't take all these goodbyes

["each time" - East 17]

prefer East 17 or E 17? though E 17 does sound alot "cooler", i kinda like the "East" too.
been falling in love with this song over and over again... just can't help it =)

school has started for two days... in fact, only one for me... because i didn't go for HOI lecture yesterday. sssshh. (don't tell claire). but then again, it was PURELY unintentional. i forgot to set the alarm to wake me up at 10am, and therefore i woke up *shrieking in panic* (heh. really i did. really....... yeah right.).. when i saw the time 11.20am staring straight into my eyes.

just as well.
and i plopped right back to bed. woke up at 12.23pm after that. yay. felt so good. haha...
dear sweet knnb. she wrote down both my name and piggy's on the attendance list. love you to death. muack.

didn't manage to watch "so close" (for my 3rd time) today, cos the cinema is closed on tuesdays!!!! argh... imagine the probability of it being closed on the exact day we planned to watch the movie? sigh.... there goes my chance of seeing shu qi again... oh well we are watching it later in the day, at 6.10pm. wanna join in? sorry to those reading from singapore. *grinz*

i'm kinda tickled by something i said to ruffles a few days ago. i'm definitely amazed at how lame i can be at times. haha.

"this is australia, not holland. and therefore we don't go dutch".

milkmaid!

mum's coming back later this evening --- from seoul. it's funny how she actually left on the same exact day i returned home from melbourne... but it's okay, she'll be flying home in about 18 hours from now.

been meeting up with quite a number of people this week... (including pooh's mummy! hahaha) it makes me feel so reluctant to go back to melbourne again *sobz*. to those of you in melbourne reading this --- you'll know what i mean really soon.

as i was saying, yup... i met up with pooh's mum to pass her a birthday gift from her darling pooh *grinz* a hand-made, self-written birthday card. aww... as much as i hate to sing pooh's praises so explicitly in the blog, he can be a real sweetie at times! you can tell from the look of his mum's face that he is indeed her pride and joy... (though he is not "a little bundle of" anymore) hehe. way to go, pooh! your mum is one cool, happening lady *smiles* (she hugged me for delivering the card! aww.)

shu qi rocks my world. i mean, can there ever be a more perfect creation? haha. okay, perhaps i'm exaggerating it pretty much, but... its undeniable --- i lurrrve shu qi, regardless of what the whole world says. and yes, i am still very pissed by the fact that she got slammed for appearing on the cover of TIME magazine some time ago. "put her back on the covers of playboy, where she rightfully belongs." oh shut up, will ya?

by the way, if you haven't watched her latest movie "so close", which also stars zhao wei and karen mok, go shoot yourself in the head, then come to me and explain why. no kidding.

piggy, teach me how you put that GUESS? model pic on your blog? me gonna put shu qi's... (as if you couldn't have GUESSED by now. hoho. pun pun.) oh yes, and our HOI? *blinking innocently*

it's already thursday... how fast time flies... i'll be flying back to down under in no time... and back to our results *long exasperated sigh* but then again, i do miss you crazy guys back home! *sniff sniff* tissue please?

had a really long night --- i'm tired, exhausted, bushed, sleepy and worn out... but i wonder why i am still awake.

we loved and lost
many times in winter
but when springtime comes
you know i'll always be picking up
the fallen leaves left
for me.

sometimes you just gotta admit that the world we live in is always an unfair one.