this needs to be done before the 22nd or on that day

1. get rid of Americanized spellings on my personal statement
2. add points about linking Cold War (ie third world conflict) to Iraq war
3. skew early content towards European/Western history (Ottoman empire, british empire - this can be included with the point about Forster)
4. bullshit about my gap year in 15 ( Read more... )

how did my luck get this bad? it's like i have storm clouds tailing my every move. just for the sake of making up with my mum, i promised that i would not got out except for work next week. getting home last night was horrible. i had a great time meeting up with a friend whom i hadn't seen for four years and we walked home for two hours, from mong ( Read more... )

I wonder how much my family/teachers will freak if I said I wanted to change from History to English Lit. ARGH When indecision and whims plague you...I feel like Hamlet on the verge of disaster. "Documents or Dickens? Sources or Shelley?" and so on ( Read more... )

The obligatory well wishing phrases...

新年祝福, 新年進步, 歲歲平安, 一帆風順
褔星高照, 大吉大利, 恭喜發財, 學業進步
龍馬精神, 身體健康, 歲歲平安, 生意興隆
招財進寶, 財源廣進, 笑口常開, 萬事大吉
一團和氣, 新年進步, 萬事勝意, 如意吉祥
心想事成, 年年有餘, 出入平安, 時來運轉
馬到功成, 五福臨門, 四季平安, 橫財就手
心想事成, 事事如意, 夢想成真, 青春常駐
...合家歡樂

Technically two hours early but Happy Chinese New Year to you as well. Now I wish my family would just kiss ( Read more... )

This is going to be mighty fun. I have 4 days including today to train for a 2 mile cross country. I last jogged a week ago. Twice, saturday and sunday which means I'll be trying to consistency, today as well as the weekend and also Monday ( Read more... )

is all my lovely chinese mother will do these days. Naggity-nag-nag-nag. She's impossible to cope with even on a school holiday. There seems to be an endless supply of critical statements at hand and when she berates me, she likes to repeat it again and again to other people so I feel as humiliated and belittled as possible. Sweet ( Read more... )

i didn't even get to speak to mom. she was asleep by the time i called. i guess i should be more earlier next time.

my god, physics sucks.

Naruto episode 48 is finally out after a long two weeks. I just had the Streetcar and Keats mock. Life has never felt more shit since my dad interrogated how much sleep I was getting.

Dad: "so, have you been sleeping well recently?"
Me: *guiltily* yeah, about seven, eight hours a day?
Dad: *peers through webcam* you sure, you look quite restless ( Read more... )

1. WORK! 4A's for this May 2008 Session exam
2. Get 80%+ for Physics test next week
3. Translating to SERIOUS revision this weekend, despite the whole 'CNY' thing
4. Stay away from Leicester Square and Trafalgar Square - too many Chinese people celebrating
5. Refuse to apologize to my dad

totally irrelevant to my life. i slammed the phone down on my dad...because were so pissed off at each other. I swore i wasn't going to speak to him for the next whole week but you always feel a bit of regret later. Still, I'm determined to make him realize what he require or expects me of, it's not something I could live up to ( Read more... )