today was a pretty productive day.

depends on what your terms for 'productive' is though.

crazy things seem to happen to the hotcakes1101e lecturers whenever we study together

the HC1101E lecturers also happen to be the:

topstudents/tutors/smartestkidsinthe'class'

anyway, edna clarence and i were intending to meet outside centralforum co-op

cos we needed to buy stuff

but guess what? CO-OP IS CLOSED TILL TUESDAY!!! :( :( :(

hahaha. you heard it from me, all 1.7364 million of you who kept coming to co-op and reading the notice on the door and walking away dejectedly.

seriously, what would nus students do without our beloved co-op??

anyway, the funniest has got to be the guy, who seeing the shutters down

still went to try and pull the door open-.-

how do we know the 1.7364million of people?

cos we just plunked ourselves at the bench right outside co-op to begin studying.

since, well according to edna: "anyway here also got a lot of power-points"

like 6 or 8 power-points...

we tried to study.

or at least I DID.

someone got distracted by supercity.

and someone got distracted by this hmm... pretty funny cleaning auntie who plunked down beside him and kept calling him "xiao di di"

it was hilarious because she kept talking in hokkien and chinese

and edna and I were like "don't look at us, you're the chinese major!"

so we left him to deal with her.

turns out she wanted to sit cos it was hot and ...

"..." represents the whole list of complains she had cos i forgot what they were

too many already.

but she stopped after a while when she saw the three of us busy looking at our notes and mugging

BUT THEN. the Indian fan-fixer worker handy-man came along, and there was some sharp exchange between the two of them about the fixing of some fans.

Now, that would be pretty normal apart from the fact that she can't speak english at all and he can't speak mandarin/dialect.

hence, her dear 'xiao di di' was called in to be translator.

after the stand-off, she proceeded to launch into a tirade which clarencelee happily joined in-.-

see, they are bonding, no?

by this time, edna and i were laughing pretty uncontrollably.

but we didn't want to be rude or mean, so we hid it pretty well. i think.

and since edna's laptop was on, the convo was something like

[on the laptop screen] "i think clarence no need study already"

"i think so too. and i can't stop laughing at XIAO DI DI"

and then we looked at each and other and couldn't hold it in anymore.

then she had her lunch. which was a super fragrant LONTONG :( :(

and i was so hungry i actually growled[not me, my stomach] when i smelt it:(

food food food:(

edna went off to collect her script, and the two remaining lecturers were paid a second visit by this cat dubbed 'skinny marvin' by edna and me. we saw it like mid-way through studying and it just waltzed past us.

strange. maybe it hates edna:D

anyway, since edna wasn't around, skinny marvin [if you really must know, marvin is tom fletcher of mcfly's fat cat. who surprisingly doesn't look fat in any of the pictures that i could find except this one without his head. the resemblance is there, except this cat was rather skinny.]

anyway, skinny marvin decided to JUMP UP TO THE BENCH I WAS SITTING ON!!! not ashamed to say i gave a yelp and jumped out of my seat. okay, maybe a little ashamed.

but anyway, was totally stunned by how he wasn't scared of humans. AT ALL. seriously, this cat is braveee. mice beware!

so, as though our bench was not comfy enough, he decided to jump onto our TABLETOP.

[notice how i keep saying our although it really is NUS', still. small difference]

so the very cat-friendly clarence decides to whip out his phone to take pictures of skinnymarvin up close. and so did i. from a very safe distance.

skinny marvin looks a little stuck up! haha. actually, it was almost as though he was preening for the camera (phone). and he seemed to enjoy being photographed!

thats my close up shot of skinny marvin, taken with the aid of ZOOM FUNCTION.

then the 'ingenious' guy decided that the reason skinnymarvin was on the table was so that he could watch the sunderland-chelsea match highlights that was on his laptop-.-

so he decided to place his laptop smack in front of skinnymarvin all the while making weird noises that i suppose were supposed to be some kind of cat-call.

To be honest, skinny marvin wasn't really watching the match all the time. in fact, he was probably pretty disgusted by the way chelsea played. but this shot was cool cos he looked like he was so "into" the game. as clarence so claims-.-

more shots of marvin watching his game

getting bored of the game already?!

anyway, then some visitors came by and were all coo-ing over the cat as well. erm, it's cute lah. but i wouldn't pet it the way they did! i mean, it's still a stray after all.

so they started taking pictures. then clarence removed his laptop so they could take nicer pictures. and strangely, marvin didn't like that! haha.

he kinda got up.

and

to

my

horror

decided that the way to get the laptop back would be to go on an expedition to find it.

across the table.

across my notes.

across my pens

across my readings.

and finally, WRONG LAPTOP.

he landed on mine

MINE:(

poor laptop. it's got the mark of skinnymarvin all over it now:(

erm

i think i was freaking just a little bit, thats why there are absolutely no photos of the cat on my laptop. but it seriously decided to pose on my laptop.

then some kind stranger decided to do me a favour by carrying the cat and placing him on the ground. while. the. retarded. clarence. stood. by. and. did. nothing. but. laugh. at. me.

tskk.

after that we went to macs to prepare a surprise as well as the marshall welfare pack!!!(:

such three lovely people(: realised that this would spoil the surprise of what the pack looks like, but still(: i printed marshall's face to motivate everyone to study. cos someone said that thats the kind of face we need for our exams: smug and uber confident...like this...

but i printed it in sepia colour, and it really really looked like an obituary cutting! then we got some morbid fun...

DOESN'T THIS LOOK LIKE A FUNERAL PALOUR? with the photo in front and the 'coffin' at the back and two 'flowers'

so when we put them all together, they kinda looked like mass funeral sessions-.-either that or funeral cars

crazy load of stuff we got...okay actually it's not a lot:D

these packages were wrapped by THREE DIFFERENT PEOPLE. looks so nice on the front right...

HAHA, this is the back, which looks ugly. guessed who did which one. i think you'd never guess, but the neatest 'nasi-lemak' packaging belongs to clarence [the right-most one] and weird shape both sides also got scotch tape belongs to edna [the left most one] and the one that looks nice on one side and completely disastrous on the other side is MINE! hahaha [the center one]

surprisingly, clarence was really good and wrapping nasi lemak. edna was okay. i was completely hopeless. so i was relegated to cutting the scotchtape for both of them:D

the finished packaging! so so so lovely!

even though i couldn't wrap nice packaging, apparently i can tie nice ribbons!(: these both are mine i think...

mine's the one on the right!(: which is way better than the other two droopy ribbons:D

hahaha.

long day, rather tired and well, i gotta get back to study! more pictures tmr hopefully, after hotcakes1101e revision lecture(:

I went for a run today...

after an EXTREMELY long hiatus in doing anything physically productive

to be honest it feels weird running around the route that I take

cos it's a bit like a figure of eight

well, it's definitely not as repressive as running on a treadmill

[not that i don't like running on a treadmill

cos I actually find a warped sense of satisfaction at seeing the number

flash on the 'screen' at the end of my workout]

but running in circles actually feels a little like a hamster running on a wheel

but I'm getting ahead of myself

the sudden urge and motivation to run

[like a lightning bolt: WHAM]

was basically because I was ahem, going to be late for my 9am class

which i have to walk all the way up the hill

from Temasek to The Deck.

and it's a pretty steep and long slope for those who don't know

So, anyway, as I was walking up

I felt an insane pull on my muscles

like seriously, massive amount of lactic acid

and i don't think i was even walking superbly fast

maybe just slightly faster than normal

so if that wasn't bad enough,

i had to walk down a flight of stairs to AS1

and the walk down was EXCRUCIATING!

cos of the muscle strain [don't even know how it happened that fast]

so the flexing of my calf muscle as i was walking downwards

hurt so bad

i think i looked like a lame person walking down the stairs

no offense to those who are truly lame

i just got a small taste of your pain!

then there were SO MANY PEOPLE BEHIND ME:(

I felt like i was holding up the whole world

you know like in the olden days the people would shout: "Unclean, unclean!"

those who have leprosy?

yeah, I felt like people were [silently] shouting at me

"UNFIT UNFIT!"

of course, it could also be the voices in my head.

so anyway,

I will be diligent in my exercise

yes i will:D

Lesson of the day:

Wake up earlier, get to class with time to spare

then I'd be spared of this kind of revelations:D