It is only when you have expectations, that is when you allow disappointments.

happy 21st birthday jo!

♥

HAPPY BIRTHDAYYS!!!


EDIT: Just finished 3 of my exams and PHEW. can't believe i got a whole diagnosis wrong today. the worst part is - my original answer was actually correct, and i changed it :( 
Plus, somehow or other i actually managed to reason all my wrong answers into thinking it's right. haha... CNS Diseases tmrw. I'm not sleeping tonight! 

Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.  Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before. 

~Jacob A. Riis

Altho i messed up the chinese words in your card, i still hope that you get my sincerity (cus apparently i wrote that i hoped her birthday would past faster rather than just a simple Happy Birthday) haha..


It's so hard to imagine that it's already been a year since then...

I decided that I'd blog today no matter what the outcome, so here goes:

Attended the basketball tryouts this evening and no, I didn't get picked. Not even for the Freshers team...

Hmm.. not much that I have to say, I think I've tired myself out talking to me on the way back from the stadium. heh. And no, I'm not like (kill myself now!) kinda disappointed or anything, just a bit... hurt? haha, that's my pride saying hello again.

I realized that the team's standard is/was really high, and i asked myself if say i did get picked lah, would I have been able to commit to all those trainings? The first thing the coach told the last few who made the cut was "prepare to run. im going to work the shit out of y'all so if you cant run, say bye bye". lol typical b* american coach type. Kudos J'aime, I dunno how u pull it off but good job getting into div 1! =)

Lol, actually i'm quite hyper right now. It's been ages (like AGES) since I had proper training. Like people who actually played basketball ( sorry, no offense guys =P) and training involved lay ups from centre line without stops or pauses. =P Okay lah, sorry im biased. hahah, but it has really been so long since Institute Tec days! Altho tmrw my butt and hamstring muscles are going to be screaming. And I'm coughing like there's something stuck in my throat atm... dang, must have swallowed some capsulated h. influenza or something. HAHAHAH


It's okay Jo, your basketball days are over. At least you went for the tryouts so there are no regrets. And met some pretty interesting peeps.. like a geologist from S. Africa! Now all you've gotta do is sit at home, knit, bake and wait for your other half to come home. (Yeah, i lol'ed too) Die lah PMCSA-UCD team, your captain just lost a chunk of her esteem, quick somebody steam her up again!

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Don't you just love the way I make lemonades and see the glasses half full? I seem to be getting better and better at this, making up excuses of why and why nots, so does that mean I'm getting more optimistic, or that I'm just failing more?

For example, summer research. I'm not going too sugar coat things. I sucked. My grades sucked big time. I may have excelled as a researcher, but I failed as a student. It's not funny when your cgpa's going to be dragged down for 2 (twoe?!?!?!) sems because of something like this. In fact its just effing pissy. Sure, I keep telling myself that notwithstanding all, the experience was priceless, the people I met were indispensable, the conferences were truly eye-opening and I'm actually going to publish a paper under my name! but then i look at my grade and everything comes tumbling down... Hmm, I'm actually embarassed to meet my supervisor. Shit.

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Meh, the endorphins are finally leaving the happy receptors in my brain alone, so the shadows coming over again. (Bet Benny-G'll be impressed by my Happy receptors theory hahah) I also just found out that I'm not gonna be presenting for research night. Hmm, can i just skip it entirely? Since there's no free dinner either =P

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Celebrated Mhui's 22nd at The Alamo. Small event since she wanted it small. Mexican food, where i had Chilli con Carne (yeahh the one i serve in my restaurant in restaurant city lol) It's rice, plus beans plus... paprika? plus meat and cheese on top, and they serve it with a jalapeno sticking up lol. I think they overdid the beans. otherwise, guilty food with capital G! hahha cheesy, meaty, and everything else that goes with that.


And I also saw a guy who literally just stood up and started PREACHING in Temple Bar. I was like WOW! Very inspired! =)


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Happy Raya to all my Muslim friends out there!! =) ... and also those who are enjoying the holiday that comes with it.

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Oh I think I forgot to mention, my uni's women basketball team is like top 3 in Dublin/ Ireland or something.

I'm 5 foot 1 and this unfit. =D

Told a story about a man who is too afraid to fly so he never did land
Drops of Jupiter, Train

*I ended up lugging the keyboard to the last Livingstone meeting anyway.*

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Shall I tell you about my day today ? Class ended at 11am, went to the Fresher's tent till about 11.30, qued at student desk till about 12.15, took bus 10 to Fitzwilliam st to JPA office, took 10 to Mater to find dr L, then went to town to get groceries. Ended up breaking my trolley bag's TROLLEY (like watheheck bye bye bag) handle and bought crazy heavy groceries. Yes, I brought my handluggage bag -the one i used for 12 day travels- for grocery shopping. Cus I had had the very noble intention to let Dle get a day's rest and the very noble me decided to get groceries to cater for a 100 people expected bbq. So exactly how heavy is heavy? Uterus prolapsing type heavy. Needing to push a trolley from Marks and spencer down Henry st all the way to the 46a bus stop opposite the spire kind of heavy. Needing to call JH to meet me at the bus stop opposite our house with another trolley from Supervalue cus I couldnt move at all with the 3 bags kinda heavy. Tried to make it back before 1700 but only reached home around 1730.Peeps came over to bake for the BBQ tmr at 1800ish---- all the way to 2300.

Now where do i insert 'study' here again?


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For all the tuts that I've crashed, I feel a biiiiiiit guilty lah since it's so obvious that the whole 'we're gonna have a short MCQ prior to the commencement of each tutorial session and it'll be worth 5% of your total marks' aimed to stop people from joining unassigned tutorials ... or just skipping the tuts entirely. And I quote a lecturer ' im not saying u guys are like our guinea pigs or something....'.

Uhuh.



Oh before I forget; mechanisms of cerebral edema :
1. Vasogenic (BBB, intercellular)
2. Cytotoxic (intracellular)

I keep mixing it up with hydrocephalus. Wattth -___-"


Dang , im tired. Dunno why it feels alot like deja vu~

On a happier note;
Happy Birthday Pwei, Mhui, Wkt! =) (3 cheers for the OLDDDD Peoples!)


**BBQ at half 6 tmrw (16th sept) at the Chaplaincy. Join us for the annual Living Stones term breaking activity =) **



ps- And its almost like I have a personal timer on my blog telling me when to update. If ur wondering at the absurdity of my post, it's cause I feel like I have nothing else to talk about, considering my brain is half asleep and my fingers are merely moving on reflex.

Gnight.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee,
And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.
~Robert Frost, "Cluster of Faith," 1962

Im back!!..... and frickin tired.

But I think krispi is tireder than me. I mean, she's the last person to lock her self out of the house, but she did, so yeah; she must be DAM TIRED!

How not to when we had to overnight at the airport? Sleeping on airport chairs are so not the best things, especially if you've just had 10 hr ferry boat rides, 3 hr plane rides and then some.

ANYWAY..... todays post is not about me grumbling! its Sept TIGA!


Guess who's Birthday is it today!!?!?!?!



---the one who's not pickin up my phone after the first time (woit, i thot u said tmrw hols so u gonna come online? im STILL waiting for u girl!)

--- the one who flew back to India juSt As my gift arrived at her house... ish!

---the one who never fails to accept my passes and who even played bball for Perak!

---the one who used to walk with me around popo's village at 10ish pm

--0-0- and then pretended (with me ofc) to be my bf so tht those mat rempits might leave us alone (actually come to think of it, i dont think it would have worked also la if they really had that in mind)

---the one who's always always always there no matter what the situation

--- the one whos appearance doesn't suit who she is inside at all

---the one who can always make me smile

--- even if most of the time i'm smiling because ur funnier than the joke

--- one third of the kalatai powersz

--- the one who buruk siku-ed and tarik balik-ed her dad's calendar in standard 3 (HAHAHAHA)


Miss EE!!



Happy Birthday hun! I dont know why but i seem to always be travelling when ur birthday approaches. Last year also, sept 3 i think i was flying back to dublin.

♥♥LOTS of hUGs and KIsseS! ♥♥♥


Okay, aku mau pii tidor krang.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
-- Euripides