*538 - and again

"I guess it's goodbye for now."

It's all faintly reminiscent, and looking at how it turned out the last time, I'm just praying that it'll be a better story to tell this time. I'm not even sure how I want the "better story” to conclude, but I'm just going to trust God to make everything beautiful in His time.

I don't know what else to say.

*537 - laundry woes

My newest record: I haven't done laundry in a month.

I'm guessing this means 4 loads (if I pack them in tight).

I have to hurdle across the mountain of smelly clothes to get from one side of the room to the other. I am Gross.

*536 - dragon day

Dragon day! Obviously, I was rooting for the architects ;) So much fun!

The only problem with having a smashing good time is that subsequent dragon days will be hard pressed to live up to expectations.

Marching down to meet the engineers' phoenix


This is what dragon feet look like


Dragon backside
(Notice the last pair of legs are dancing?)


Phoenix, which didn't feature much




In the arts quad


There was bacon somewhere








My favourite architect




So cute together :D


BURRRNNNN.


Reason for global warming

*535 - arch 459

You know how sometimes when you play too much of a menial game like tetris or bejeweled, the games get annoyingly fixed in your mind, and you end up playing virtual tetris/bejeweled in your head for days on end?

That's what happened to me, kinda sorta, except with Maya. (3D digital imaging program.) After the midterm project was done, I constantly dreamt (both in my sleep and fully consciously) of 3D modeling: nurbs, extruding, intersecting and snipping, scaling and rotating, control vertex and hulls and isoparms ... And now whenever I see a geometric structure, I immediately start modeling it in my head.

Guess what my project was about:







Hehe. Definitely couldn't have done it without a particular TA's help (: It was tremendously vexing, and I nearly cried over my project a number of times. I promise to start earlier on my final project, to save both of us undue stress and unnecessary 4 am nights. Haha.

So here's the final product! My favorite parts have got to be the little shiny lump at the tip of the beaters and the twisty wire. Hehe.

Electric beaters!

*534 - 5 am haircuts

Pictures from, what, four months ago, because I just got the photos from Joel:

The reason why I had to crop my hair off over winter break.







It actually wasn't that bad a haircut, but I was insecure and had to go get it fixed at a salon. Hehehe. Crazy times.

*533

You know, all I wanted to do, all I want to do, is to make you happy. To show you what it's like to wake up every morning with a smile on your face and a song in your heart. To put the 'i's in your 'happy's and dot them too. To paint a million rainbows in your sky.

But now I'm evicted, sitting nervously at the corner of this wooden table, nibbling on chocolate rice krispies, with Case Fare, Principles of Macroeconomics for company. R walks by with a question in his eyes (and we make polite conversation: we both know, but we pretend not to).

-

You come back and for a while, everything's okay, and everything will be. (Will it really?) That's what rainbows are for.

-

I turn on the music because I don't want to hear your pain. I wish you didn't have to hear mine too.

-

A few days later. Nothing's under covers anymore; everything's clear; we all know what should be done.

I've always known. I've always know what you want, what I want, what we pretend to want. Sometimes I feign stupidity because it's easier than accepting the truth. Sometimes I feign stupidity because my heart's not rational (my brain knows it well), and it screams to be heard.

You've never hurt me, but that doesn't stop me from hurting.

*532 - hello from the mountains

I don't usually cry from physical pain - my tolerance is pretty damn high (must be all the torture from the gym days). But thumping down backward smack on my tailbone and hurtling down the slopes head-first was the most painful thing I had felt in a while.

That being said, it would probably be less painful to tumble head over heels down the black slopes than to listen to _______ again.

And that being said, I'm having the most awesome spring break ever! (I know it's my first, but you know.) Snowboarding is painful but so exhilirating, the mountains are a work of art, and the company is hahaha amazing. Oh-ya-pay-ya-somm-ing for sleeping arrangements and switching around every night; lots of Jeep Jokes; modeling a penis a day (in the snow or with leftover food); styling each others' hair and going out in public looking like fools; screeching our favourite song (KEN LEEEEEEEE tulibu dibou douchuuuu); etc etc etc. Really amazing.

-

"Taking one or two oranges at bedtime and again on rising in the morning is an excellent way of stimulating the bowels."

Constipation home remedy is still in my google search history from that time at Joel's place where I constipated for something like 2 weeks. This always happens when I'm in unfamiliar places. Oranges later hahaha.

-

Joshua (recounting his dream): ... and my tummy hurt, so Joel massaged it, and it was nice. And then I massaged Joel's back, and it was nice.

It's funny how the 3 boys have been showing homosexual tendencies for the past few days ;)

*531 - spring break is HERE

A month delayed, but oh well! Valentines' day here was nothing quite like the Vdays in Singapore, where everyone would come to school laden with flowers, chocolates, cute little gifts to give out to all their friends, and the whole day would be pink and fluffy and full of love. Vday seemed like a day exclusively for the couples; for the rest of us, there wasn't much love in the air. Haha.

Amused myself with Vday candies over lunch


Ju bearing gifts!


Flower for him (:


Off with Kenneth to Starbucks on impulse to make paper roses for the employees :D


Learning to make his variety of paper roses


-

Last week was a crazy midterm/deadline-filled week. In fact, I was in Rand till 4 am last night working on my 3D imaging project. Never again - I'm going to start EARLY the next time. (Remind me I said this, please.)

Overslept as a result, and so the boys are off to church while I stay home and pack, and they're coming down to pick me up in a bit. And then off to Whiteface we go :D SNOWBOARDING wheeee :D

I can hardly believe spring break is finally here!!!

*530 - hotelie dorm

Pictures from a long, long time ago! Taken in what we fondly refer to as the Hotelie Dorm (ie. Statler Hotel) after eating at the Hotelie Dining Hall (ie. Taverna Banfi). It was dearest Raina's birthday <3 Much love.







How many Hotelies does it take to change a lightbulb?
Just one, but they get 4 credits for doing it.

Hahaha very untrue (look at how stressed us poor Hotelies are!) but I thought it was actually pretty funny.

*529 - teardrops

I’m
sorry.
I didn’t
mean to hur
t you again. (I k
now I always do; I’ve
done this before.) Pleas
e, don’t worry. I’m comin
g back home really, really
soon: two months. Remem
ber that God always mak
es everything okay in th
e end. Doesn’t He?
Love, me.

*528 - now

I'm living in the present. I'm living for now, for today, for some tomorrow, and a bit (but not too much) beyond tomorrow.

Carpe diem, stop to smell the roses, and all that?

Well. Sometimes it's just that living in the now is the easiest way out (for now).

-

Grey skies and wet-almost-like-rain type snow invariably brought this song to mind:

I can see the sun up high though we're caught in a storm
I can see where you and I could be cosy and warm
Let the rain pitter patter but it really doesn't matter if the skies are grey
As long as I can be with you it's a lovely day

Twirling through the crunchy, slushy snow, leaping over puddles, getting my feet soggy and fluffies (in Ryen's terms) wet, freezing nose and fingers and toes, looking downright, miserably sodden and pathetic, but it doesn't matter, because I'm living in my happy dream doing my happy dance.

(:

*527 - happy dream

Yesterday was one of those "happy dream" days, despite the fact that I lost my phone while (literally!) tumbling head over heels down the slopes while snowboarding.

Getting out of bed past noon, heading to the slopes, snowboarding in the fluffiest snow ever with great company (at one point I landed in more-than-knee-high fluffy snow and couldn't get out), having the 4 boys comb through Trojan to find my phone to no avail :(, impulsive decision (and it was the best decision) to ditch all other plans I had lined up to go for Praise Alive: great worship with a lot of prophesying which made me a weeping (but joyful) mess, driving around to help Pastor Chip and then finally sitting down to dinner (!) past midnight with Joseph and Kenneth, and waking up at 1 pm the next day because no phone = no alarm (and noone to rouse me from my slumber) = Evelyn does not wake up. Hehe.

So here I am in my dorm eating breakfast at 1.30 pm, trying to do homework before it's time for dance.

Weekends are nice (:

On the slopes a few weeks ago:



Plus, it's a beautiful day out: blazing sun, snow-dusted everything, and a warm -2 degrees. Yay :D