JAPAN!!!! again.

goddamnit I'm so super distracted.
YES I'm going to start talking about Japan AGAIN.
I know I've been very unproductive and distracted the past few days so...I decided to study my ass off till late at SB today.

I woke up at 7plus am for the ortho appointment and was caught in a v heavy rain so I decided to go back and take a nap and get changed before my lect. But I overslept and missed my last lecture of the semester!!! Which is really bad because its a very very important one. But something else made my day - someone bought my law notes today, so $50 extra!

I headed down to GJ to study for awhile and G came by. Obviously I stopped doing my work and talked for awhile and went for dinner with YC. Feeling so super freaking guilty, I thought I would stop by SB and study till late. But I'd to get some books from Borders first (40% discount!!!) And as usual I stayed there longer than expected. (I stayed at Whitcoulls for an hour yesterday to find for a freaking book!) It was a disappointment because I can't get the books I wanted - The Gathering by Anne Enwright...she won some booker award and because of that, they all sold out -.-. So I bought Japan's lonely planet instead! I just realized I spent so much these couple of days but its so worth it. Whitcoulls had 50% off all their fiction books!!

Ok so I was determined to study at SB but obviously it was too late so I might as well go home. Well thats because I can't wait to book my air tickets!!!!

Coincidentally G's going on the EXACT SAME DATES AS ME!!!! And Apple is going as well! And mp is there, and wb might drop by!!! But G departs from Tokyo while I've travel down to Osaka before going back to Singapore. Anyways, being so freaking excited I came online and tried to book the tickets. Took a long long long time to figure it out and finally booked it...But sadly, its on waiting list and there's only 50% chance I can get the tickets..

If I don't get it through krisflyer, I got to get it through ana or something... and I've to wait for my parents to come back from China before doing that. AH! so excited now. This is my first time booking air tickets by myself! Cheap thrill. My dad usually does it for me but he is not available now and I can't wait any longer!

Erm so yeah, I'll wait till next week, if they still don't give me a confirmation, I'm gonna try other agencies! AHHHHHHHHHHH DAMNIT I NEED TO STUDY AND STOP TYPING SO MUCH!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAA
HAHHAHAHAHHAHAH

I sooo won't be laughing like that next week when my exams start.
Ok.....!!! HUILING!!!! STOP!!! Start studying for crim!

I will not talk about Japan anymore
I will not talk about Japan anymore
I will not talk about Japan anymore
I will not talk about Japan anymore

LALALLALALLALALALALALLAAAAAAA I'M GOING JAPAN!!!!!

Backpacking #5 - JAPAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I still can't help it but rant about my excitement.
Ok, its not confirm that I am really 100% guarantee plus chop etc going because....
I HAVEN'T BOUGHT MY AIR TICKETS!
Only after booking my air-tickets would I really consider myself going.

Last night I was talking to my dad and we were searching tickets online and there was one to Osaka and my dad said 'book now huh?' I was taken aback because I felt that it was just too fast and random and unexpected and don't know...just so not prepared! Cause if I really book the tickets, I can't change the dates anymore! But I can't believe my parents are so swift bout that!

Ok, they still don't know that I may be traveling alone for a few days...if they know, I can totally give up the thought of going so of course, they are not going to be notified bout that!

Its really not the time to be researching bout the trip but I can't help it because I need to settle some stuff before I can even book the tickets! Apparently there are no more tickets to Tokyo on the dates I'm looking at so my only alternative now is to go to Osaka first. Kinda decided where I wanna cover already - Osaka -> Nara -> Kyoto -> Tokyo -> Osaka with the 7 days railway pass! Wonder how am I gonna go Kobe though...theres this Kobe Luminare during Christmas which I really wanna go! Heard its beautiful!!

Accommodation is rather expensive though (compared to the backpackers in NZ which ranges from $18-$25 per night). The cheapest I can find in Japan is something called Ryokan, probably their version of backpackers. There are youth hostels which costs around $37 a night but its shared. Erm I feel that its a lil dodgy if I have to stay with other people when I'm alone. Sigh!

Alrights, I must keep everything going else my plans of backpacking to Japan will fail! I even bought a travel diary just now for planning purposes and I'll probably buy the Japan Lonely Planet travel guide tomorrow! And its as if heaven is on my side - I've a 40% discount voucher from Borders for travel guides!

Ok, I shan't bore you with all those details anymore like what I'm doing to everyone around me! Haha whenever I see my friends in uni, I just can't control myself and start talking bout my plans -.-.

Ok, all I need to do now is to be focus on my work. Exams starting next week.

Haha oh yeah, as usual, I've been going to GJ/SB everyday. And in SB, they ask for your name when they take your order. Knowing that they can't spell my name, I usually give my initials - HL and this is what they gave me:
So I decided to say 'Ling' the next time. And they gave me:

Alright, I know. I need to get a English name. So I decided to just say Lynn the next time. And this is what they gave me:

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And as you can see, I'm a comp idiot. I don't know how to rotate the pictures. I tried, but they just won't turn.

YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

I AM GOING TO BACKPACK JAPAN AT THE END OF THE YEAR!!!!!!
SCREAMS! PULLS MY HAIR! SO FREAKING EXCITED! SO DAMN HAPPY!!!!!!
I CAN'T BELIEVE MY PARENTS ACTUALLY ALLOW!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
IN FACT I GOT MY MOM SO EXCITED ABOUT MY ENDEAVOUR SHE SAID SPONTANEOUSLY THAT SHE IS GONNA PAY WHEN I BROUGHT UP MY CONCERNS ABOUT THE COSTS. CAN YOU BELIEVE IT! CAUSE I REALLY CAN'T! I MUST BE DREAMING. PLEASE DON'T WAKE ME UP TILL DECEMBER ENDS.
ITS EITHER I'M SUCH A GOOD PERSUADER OR MY MOM WAS JUST NOT THINKING.
YES
YES
OH NO I'M SO EXCITED I CAN'T STUDY ANYMORE!
FREAK! JAPAN! AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DAMN I NEED TO LEARN JAPANESE NOW!!!!!!!!!!
LALALALALLALALALALLALALALALALALALALLALALALA
OMG I HOPE EVERYTHING WORKS OUT FINE
I DON'T CARE IF I'M GOING ALONE OR NOT BUT I AM GOING!!
AHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA
AND MAYBE STOP BY KOREA!!!
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
OMG I'M GOING TO WORK MY ASS OF WHEN I GET BACK AND EARN SOME MONEY SO I CAN TOTALLY SPLURGE THERE!
AHHHHHHHHH
DON'T WAKE ME UP FROM MY DREAM!

My dual lifestyle

Early bird
Night owl

I lived in Singapore for say 18plus years, NZ for approximately 2 years and I am ashamed to say that I hardly know much about my country- both Singapore and NZ. And so we were talking to Charlie from Taiwan during dinner. He has been here for 7years – meaning that he’d been away from Taiwan for 7 years. But, I’m impressed that he still knows his country's history, politics etc. Not just Taiwan but China and Hong Kong as well. And so we started bombarding him with questions about Taiwan's history and politics and to my delight, he was able to answer most of the questions and it was really interesting. I just know a lil about Taiwan...something about KuoMingTang and Chiang Kai Shek but nonetheless it was still a very entertaining topic to talk about. We digressed a lil to Singapore, ASEAN and a lil on Indonesia. I guess I've learnt a pretty substantial amount from them over a short dinner.

The other day we watched a video on the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp under the Nazis. It was so freaking disturbing. Listening to it was bad enough but watching it was just pure torturous. How they exterminated the Jews, stripped them, gassed them, used all their body parts for other purposes as if they were like commodities. And how the concentration camp functions as if it’s a factory – just that the raw materials were human. Look at the POW’s expressions – you will wonder why they even want to continue living. But the most disturbing part was when the bulldozer pushing all the dead naked bodies into the furnace. Freak! I don’t even want to try describing it. I guess its just the circumstance. Maybe the person sitting next to you now is the sweetest thing on earth but maybe if you put her/him into that context, can you guarantee that she/he will still be sweet?

3 more weeks before my exams end. Yes, I really can't wait for everything to be over. I don't want to wake up early in the morning and walk to Starbucks. I don't want to sit there the whole day. I don't want to skip lunch. I don't want to stay there till night. I want to just rot and read anything other then cases. I read 65 cases this week! 380pages in total and considering that 2 pages are printed on 1, its 760pages!!! That totally explains my headaches, loss of appetite, dizziness blah blah blah. Never mind, it will be over soon.

AND! SouthPark is ridiculously funny! I've only watched 2 episodes but I think its so damn funny I kept re-watching them. Especially the death of Eric Cartman. HAHAHA ITS SO DAMN FUNNY I LAUGH WHENEVER I THINK ABOUT IT. I was controlling my laughter when I was watching it at GJ. My god, I felt like exploding with laughter.
HAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH
HAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAA
HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
Ingeniously funny!

GJ vs SB

I spent the last couple of weeks camping in cafes - Gloria Jeans and Starbucks. Although I personally still prefer GJ way better than Starbucks, (I don't know why but Starbucks tastes so bad after drinking GJ...maybe its just that outlet, don't remember Starbucks tasting so bad before. I tried Cafe Mocha, Vanilla Latte, Caramel Latte, White Chocolate Latte, Cafe Latte and all tasted either wrong or substandard. But I stick to Cafe Latte now because it tastes like milk and its the cheapest)

Anyway the point is time passes so slowly now. I thought I went out with them for dinner a week before but actually, it was just 2 days before. Thats what happens when you stay in a place for too long. We sat there without moving from 1130am to 930pm, occasionally for toilet breaks. I was rushing for my exams revision while G was rushing for some archi project.

I felt like a lump of dough just sitting there the whole freaking day and night flipping through cases after cases for law, questions after questions for accounting. And its really draining on both my brains and my wallet. I mean, I felt that it was pretty wrong for us to sit there the whole day by just ordering a drink so I bought 2. 2 drinks from SB everyday - thats freaking wasting my money considering I don't even like it. And why am I not going to GJ? Because they have no power point for my laptop.

Haha ok, stop complaining. I quite like sitting there in fact - rather than sitting in the library. I'm so much more productive there plus the caffeine keeps me invigorated. But whenever I reach home, I'll feel like I'm floating around because my brain is kinda fried. So now, here I am, sitting down for a moment to rest. I was just reading several blog entries and suddenly, I realized that my lifestyle is so different here!

This is totally random but I realized that the way I live here is totally different from how I would in Singapore. Its just so different! Not that its bad, but its just different.

Ok, got to get back to my surreal world of cases after cases and calculations after calculations. And my vacuum cleaner just got to act stupid at this crucial time. Argh.

Notice of Detainment

I froze when I opened my letter box and saw this:


I panicked - thinking that I'm gonna get detained because I didn't vote. Ripped opened the letter and saw this:


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'$59.56' totally popped out from the letter. I thought I had to pay that amount and was super relief when I saw the 2nd option - Destruction at no cost.

Destruction at no cost? Pretty weird because the BBQ pork, aka Bak Gua is already with me:



But to enable them to fulfill the requirements of the Biosecurity Act 1993, alright, I'll 'destruct' it:

Absolutely peculiar

Huh? I feel that I'm living in an ultimately surreal world now - Its either I am dreaming or I am not existing.

Maybe its the lack of sleep again.
I had an assignment due today which I usually finish a week before but obviously I didn't and had to even skip 2 lectures to complete it - Yes, last-minute.

Considering I didn't sleep much the past few nights and a few important matters to attend to and major decisions made etc, I felt that I used 10% of my brain instead of the usual 3% as Einstein states (Am I even right about this fact?). And being deprived of GJ this morning made me 1000xs more lethargic. And as usual, being a true-blue Singaporean, I was late for History lecture by 20minutes after which I skipped the next 2 lectures to complete the 4% worth of Accounting assignment (Yes, only 4%). I mean even if I get that question wrong, its only gonna affect my grades by less than 0.5marks but its either the kiasu-ism or the I-just-need-to-know-how-to-do-it urge in me, I refused to hand it in till I kinda think its right.

But my brains could only function at 10% of its usual rate and it was just a totally wrong time to piss me off then. So as I was rushing for time, this kinda familiar girl came up to me and said, 'Hey, you did accting 102 last sem right? You are doing acct 221 now?' Damn... I recognized her after awhile...that girl who kept forcing answers out of me during tutorial when the tutor was talking. I mean, I need to listen to explain but she just went on and on and on and on so I could never get anything out of the tutorial. So I can never teach her nor can I even understand it myself.

I knew she had the intention to copy my answers but I really don't like that idea. Firstly, I don't really know you, I don't even remember your name. Secondly, if you weren't that last minute, I can teach but not let you copy! You gotta work it out yourself. Attitude totally wrong. Thirdly, I'm pretty screwed myself so as I much as I want, sorry. So I told her as politely as I could that I haven't finish it myself but she kept insisting (She didn't even have her assignment there). I got a lil impatient yet guilty but I really have negative amount of time to continue that mini argument. Probably she got me at the wrong time, I was really tired and I had another tutorial soon. Tough luck. And no, she didn't give up, she saw Nat's assignment and flip through it. That really pissed me off because that was not even my assignment and she just took it without asking?! So I took it back. And you thought she would just give up, but no, she said she will come later after printing her assignment. -.- But I left a lil after because I had a tutorial.

Yes, I'm horrible and I'm pretty guilty bout that. But..aiyah! Sorry lor. Just not the time to ask me for help.

Thank god Nat got coffee for me before Crim tut else I'll definitely doze off again. Although its not comparable to GJ, its still effective. Ok, this is the crux of my post - I was utterly stupefied when I got back my results.

I had this crim test weeks ago which I totally screwed it up because I had a mental bock and had almost nothing to write - to the extend that I wanted to walk out of the exam hall. In fact, it bothered me so much I had to go out with a couple of friends for a drink to straighten out my thoughts. And the following weeks after that test I was still demoralized about it and felt fidgety during Crim lects and am half way on giving it up. When the results were released, my whole mind was clouded with the thought on how badly I'd done and trying to create the worst case scenario - maybe 9/100. I refused to check the results nor collect the paper although I know I need to do a proper review on it. I was gonna ask my friend to collect it for me but I reckon I shouldn't be such a pussy.

So I decided to collect it today, after crim tut and before SY's birthday dinner. I told myself not to be too affected by it and if I really was (which I was almost certain i would be) the company later in the evening would probably comfort me a lil. So yes, I went to collect my essay and test and expecting to get a single digit. When I opened the script, to my horror/surprise (I don't know what words to use) I saw a double digit which starts with 7 and ends with 6. So I rolled my eyes thinking that they gave me the wrong script. (Getting B+ for Part 2 law is kinda impossible for people like me) But I thought the handwriting looked familiar. So I reckon it was mine and I was kinda sure that they entered the wrong marks. So I flipped through it with the -.- mindset, already expecting some super stupid major mistake in calculations. But to my horror (Yes, horror, not even happiness because I thought it was totally absurd) I saw the comments 'good', 'good', 'v.good', 'self-defence', 'good effort', '76'and thought - you MUST be kidding me. This is totally wrong. I mean, HUUUUUHHHH I'm so confuse! I mean wth! I spent so many sleepless nights and worries and blah blah blah because of this. I know, you must be trashing me now saying that I should just be contented but I just think this is just so ridiculous. I can't say that I'm happy, I think I'm more of dumbfounded. Huuuhhhh I totally feel so stupid worrying like shit the past few weeks...not paying attention in lects huuuuhhhhhhhhh ironic. I'm so damn freakin lucky. I think I can even win a jackpot now.

But my opinion's marks was bad but I think it accurately reflects the quality of that piece of work - crap. Totally mistook a whole chunk of law but as usual Brown ALWAYS states something consoling at the end of his markings no matter how crappy your work is. He said my English expression is well-up to task - Although I feel absolutely flattered, I know thats not true. I must correct that statement - not MY but the people who not only proof-read that opinion but even corrected all my nonsensical mistakes. Haha thanks to those - I promise I'll give you all a treat.

And yesterday I was checking out the GJ's outlets in Sg and the good news is that there are 3 not 1! At Marina, Raffles and Vivo. Yup, no worries now. So as I was surfing through their web I unknowingly ended up in this page - http://www.gloriajeans.com/t-franchising.aspx
Haha! Yes, I wanna franchise more of them in Sg. Haha nah, just joking I don't have such means but I reckon if there are more outlets or if Sgporeans are more aware of GJ, they would be as or even more popular than Starbucks! Starbucks is way too expensive and I don't know, but I love GJs here. Ok, I must qualify my statement, I love Gloria Jeans @ Borders. Yes! Another dream of opening a small lil cafe in the center of a bookshop. Hah. Maybe one day I should just sit there and count the number of customers patronizing that outlet and work out how much they probably earn! I bet its a lot!

And! I've spent so much there! Damn! But I try not to spend on anything except groceries which I haven't even bought for a couple of weeks. How I survive? Didn't you know instant noodles are students' best friends? Haha.

Haha, this is totally random, but yesterday when I was doing some work in GJ, a friend dropped by and told me the most absurd and funniest thing about his childhood I nearly died laughing. I still think that that is totally ridiculous. Rolls eyes again.

Ytd I started to use reverse psychology to convince my parents. As in, imbuing indirectly my opinions so that they would be slowly be influenced and maybe at the end of the year when I let them know my decision they would just happily embrace it, without even displaying the slightest objection. But of course, I got to be discrete about it - sounding neutral and blahblahblah so that they won't think I'm being emotional or bias. Haha this feels like a game -.- I hope I win.

Oh no...I just read what I've just typed and I think my blog is totally rubbish... Its totally void of contend and random stuff coming out from me. Ahh... haha sorry for wasting your time if you're even reading this. haha.

Yup, to again emphasize my identity as a true-blue Singaporean, I'm once again, very late for dinner now.