I was having a conversation recently about how the whole adage to "live like today's your last" is an incredibly peabrained and irresponsible idea. In fact, people who're told that it is their last days, and later find out that it isn't, have sued doctors for false expectations. Because it's a nice idea to live free from fear of consequences, but ( Read more... )

(It seems a bit pointless blogging about this since everyone who reads this was basically here tonight, but I'm trying to get into the habit. Bear with me ( Read more... )

I want to spend the next three and a little bit weeks doing absolutely nothing, just eating, lounging around and generally being brain dead. But of course that's not going to happen, because the world never quite goes away.

Winter to-do list:
- finish that damn IAPC (proposal for concentration)
- write cover letters for spring internship: abt, ( Read more... )

I'm coming hommmmmmeeee! (thank god, finally). I get in at 7am on 18 Dec, and I'm leaving on 10 Jan, so that means we have a little over 3 weeks to partayyyyy.

HOMG I JUST REALIZED I'M LEAVING IN 10 DAYS. CUE PANIC ATTACK. SO MANY THINGS I HAVEN'T DONE. ... and can't do anyway, because the museums are on strike. yay french people.

Looks like the government has given up trying to encourage people to learn Chinese. Part of this article from the ST said:

"This architect, who hails from Penang, has never studied Mandarin in school before, but has apparently found another secret formula that helps to ensure that his business succeeds in China.
Mr Xu used the above English adage ( Read more... )

Got up, wormthe came over to wrap the present for miserabilities , headed off to lunch with aforementioned two plus squeakyphish and mirik0, ended up on the ecp, looped round Chinatown and finally ended up at suntec, then proceeded to look for parking space involving much frustration and near accident due to stupid carpark layout.

After lunch, engaged in subterfuge to go pick up new ( Read more... )

... except that this rockstar doesn't seem to party very much at all. The party ended at 10.30. TEN THIRTY. That's earlier than some secondary school birthday parties I've gone to, and I went to nanyang, so that's saying something. Gene (Simmons, for those whom I haven't told. Almost everybody, basically) really really doesn't drink or smoke or do ( Read more... )

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Work technically ends at 6pm, but I normally stay longer so that I can hitch a ride home with my dad. Today, however, I was designing the mockups for Storm Lion's possible blog (blogger, lj and wordpress) and I was working away until I realised it was already 6.50. Then, because I had spent so long just staring at the computer, I was too tired to ( Read more... )

It's 2am, and I'm waiting for my hair to dry so I can go to sleep. Except, there's a sporadic buzzing sound in my room, like a bee or a giant fly or a BEETLE might be in here. This is making me very paranoid. I detest all insects of any kind, and the buzzing ones in particular. The could fly around my room, and fly right into my face EW EW EW EW EW ( Read more... )