When Huiling gets bored with life...

she starts indulging in frolicsome play - which usually leads to undesired results.

1. Another attempt to run to Mission Bay.
Yes, I succeeded but not in the most pleasurable way. So we are entering the winter season and its getting cold. Some how or another, Linghui managed to convinced Huiling that it WILL NOT be cold during the run to Mission Bay. It WILL NOT be cold running next to the sea. It WILL NOT be cold during winter. It WILL be OK to run in shorts. Huiling was convinced. She happily wore shorts and started her run.

Half way through, it got a lil chilly. She saw dark clouds in front. Linghui convinced Huiling that the wind is strong. It will blow the dark clouds to somewhere else by the time we are there. So they refused to turn back. It started to drizzle. 'Endure, endure, you can do it, you can do it, almost there, almost there, IT WILL NOT RAIN'. Before she knew it, it was pouring. She was 5km away from home, no shelter around, no cellphone, in her shorts and her ipod almost going for a swim. Since she was already wet, might as well complete the run - and so happily she ran to Mission Bay in the freezing cold rainy day.

And, yes!!!!!! She finally reached Mission Bay but couldn't really stay any longer because she looked like some lunatic who is drenched inside out, dripping water all around. Took forever to run back to the city and felt the fatigue creeping in. STILL she decided to go grocery shopping. 12KM run + carrying groceries - you might think that she has lost weight.

HELL NO. That leads to frolicsome play #2.

2. Food binging
After that long run and feeling immensely satisfied, I decided I deserve a huge treat. And that treat lasted for the whole week after the run. One of the days I cooked 3 cups of rice which is equivalent to 1 small pot of cooked rice - envisaging it to last me for a few days but miraculously it finished within 1 day. Subsequently, there was yong tau foo, prawn noodles, wontan mee, angels hair with avocado, eating out and eating a lot. Yes, I was a lil guilty, I wanted to exercise but I injured my leg after that 12km run. Yes, I spent heaps on food recently. And that also leads to my frolicsome play #3.

3. Spending as if I own Sky City and the casino
Since I've spent so much already, might as well spend more. Its like a slippery slope. I spent quite a bit the other day. But still, momo feels kinda..empty. With the exams closing in, momo feels VERY agitated because she has to STUDY the most BORING subject on earth during the time she is most BORED with life...ACCOUNTING!!! So to ease the pain, she decides to inflict that pain to others by carrying out her frolicsome play #4.

4. Counterstrike
*Chants: self-control, self-control, self-control. Awhile later, RAH! Just 5 minutes! *Double click the CS icon on desktop and start engaging in the somewhat intellectual game of shooting terrorists or counter-terrorists. Usually I die before everyone does which triggers the drive in me to WIN. And yes, usually the game lasts more than 5 minutes. I must have looked like a maniac to the people in Starbucks today - dodging invisible gun shots. STILL, I feel that life gotta be more than running, eating, studying and playing CS. There MUST be something else to do...RIGHT?! Right. So, on to my frolicsome play #5.

5. Hair Dye
I packed my bag, left Starbucks, made my way down to Foodtown and bought a bottle of hair dye. Not many colours available, picked a brown one (the cheapest one I can find which can be covered by the voucher sent to me recently). Went home excitedly with my new toy. Finally, something to look forward to tonight - yes, cheap thrill.

Opened the box, felt that I got cheated because they didn't provide the gloves which they supposedly have (as stated on the box), made a huge mess and waited for the dye to seep into my hair - and psyching myself that brown is a lucky colour and would definitely bring me good luck during my exams next week. (If you don't already know, I really DO NOT like accounting and am going to rely a lot on luck).

To my dismay, after washing the dye off...my hair is still... BLACK! Box reads: '...applies to your natural hair colour with up to 50% grey hair...will not lighten your hair' Right... what makes me think that black is lighter than brown. #$%^&*( I just wasted my precious money, time and effort!!!

I have concluded that this totally isn't the right month for me. On top of that, I got a $10 fine from the library for overdue books (I naively thought that overdue rates would more or less be similar to Singapore). But whatever it is, I believe that I'm experiencing such bad luck only because all the good luck would flood in during the release of exams results. (Right, continue dreaming Huiling.)

Sigh, ok some short updates..although I just did a VERY long one. Haha.

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We got into finals! But I did crap.
Sigh, I will stop trying to spice up my life for now - and turn to the more conservative and mundane side of life - start.studying.for.accounting.exams.