What a fantastic day! Despite sleeping really poorly, falling asleep past 3am and waking up every now and then, and finally waking up with the feeling like I'd been hit by a truck, today turned out to be pretty great.

First, I started my day with a yummy friand and flat white at Fitzbillies. I read Deborah Levy's Swimming Home, which was ( Read more... )

What can I say about life these days? Life is in Cambridge; life consists in the PhD; life is not in Singapore, it is away from my parents, and sometimes - like this morning - it makes me sad ( Read more... )

Top priority of Yelen's life: Get a frigging job and get a frigging job NOW.

I hope to hell that the doggy job comes through.

Right, shopped at Zara (Great World City) with Mel today. I blew almost half of my January allowance on a skirt and two tops. Before that, my mom bought a nice blue top for me at Marks and Spencer.

So, I'm a bleeding ( Read more... )

I failed my Literature test by two and a half marks. Was supposed to analyse an extract from George Eliot's "Middlemarch". My teacher said that I definitely have the potential to do better, because I made some insightful observations, and only failed because... well, apart from the fact that I left the entire essay hanging on one incomplete ( Read more... )

It's probably superficial. It's probably going to be fruitless. It's probably even really stupid.

But I have found myself a new target anyway. Mr. Number 14 on the basketball team.

Why, you ask? Because he's really frigging cute. I've finally seen him around school these few days, sitting with a group of friends at the rooftop cafe after classes, ( Read more... )

I have an Econs essay due on Monday on the demand of desktop computers. I have an Econs test next Thursday on supply and demand. I have a Literature test next Saturday on Act One of "Othello". I have a Maths quiz on binomial on Friday. I have a Chinese test two weeks later. Another Literature test three weeks later.

Out of all of that, I'm only ( Read more... )

Today was um. Interesting. And I think Mr. Nerd has got to be one of the nicest person I've ever met. Seriously. I messaged him late last night asking him to teach me binomial as I was going crazy with not knowing the crap on my page, and he actually complied. So I spent an hour and a half or so today from 5+ to 6.30 sitting at the rooftop cafe ( Read more... )

Let's try for something poetic and eloquent today.

Day in, day out, it's the same crazy mad rush, and on Mondays it's the worst. You just got out of bed, refreshed from an entire day of doing absolutely nothing, and it's 6.30 in the morning, it's still dark out and all you truly want to do is to go back to bed and forget that you haven't done your ( Read more... )

Let's see. Today sucked. Tomorrow is going to be worse and I don't want to think about it.

I still like Mr. Nerd quite a bit. And I don't understand why he seems so distant nowadays. I don't see him around in school much; in fact, didn't see him the entire day. Doesn't matter. The thing is, when I do see him, he's always like, "Oh, hi." Then he ( Read more... )

Yesterday was the CCA open house. Walked around with Sakurai for a bit and when we reached the IT Club booth, I scribbled my name on the sign-up list.

Sakurai's reaction: You're really becoming a geek man! Are you doing it for him?

'Him' as in Mr. Nerd.

I replied, "Of course not!"

Stupid Sakurai. What has signing up for IT Club got anything to do with ( Read more... )