I am just feeling stressed, bored... and tired of writing my term paper... in Chinese. Do not get me wrong, I like Chinese but its the hanyupingying programme that is so ma fan. The thought that more than half of lecture group is yr 2 or 3 Chinese nationals simply elavate the stress. ah!!! Grumbling, rumbling and more rumbling..

Un-glam pics of myself: caught sleeping on my bed. Notice the papers?? that explains why... haha.. I am reading the research essays and journals for my term paper, then inevitably dozed off.
So comfortable..
* the white dot you see on my right cheek is the extra-thick pimple cream.

Yesterday, I went for my first Life Meeting: Senior Mentor Appreciation Day. It was very exciting! and of course, fun. I felt so at home althought the majority was strangers. They ARE so friendly and loving!!! MuAh!!

However, I felt really gulity not going for fencing. I brought my stuff: fencing mask, wire, glove, socks and clothes. Well... the LM ends at 8pm or so I heard, so I thought still make it for 1h of training. In the end, LM finished at 8.45pm. ~ really sorry yian!

This week was crazy... rushing projects and presentations.. ahrhggghhh....!!!!!!!!! When you see this blog entry, it means I have 1 project and 1 term paper to go before the exam fever catches up. Now that I have time to scrutinize my face in the mirror, I realised my skin is in a terrible condition: pimple breakout. Honestly, I never experiences this before. Its the largest scale in 19 years. The number of pimples during my puberty is countable. This time.. its uncountable. Great. Cant imagine me with pimples or how bad the condition, this is an exclaimation from my friend, " sHIR!!... what happen to your skin!!!". I think she says it all. So after the crazy tuesday, I had facial masks for two consecutive nights. Luckily, the irritating red pimples subside but still quite bad.. eh... I seldom have pimples so my definition of bad can be not at all correct to some.

My good friend recently noted, " shirlyn ah, I saw some fine lines at your eye bags. Better take care.. before its too late". *faint. Wonderful timing isnt it? I am going through transition between teenage and adulthood so I have pimples and fine lines at the same time. Time to use SK ll? nah... maybe too young... hmmm... ok I shall stick with Tea Tree Oil

Felt really irritated today with almost everything at home!!!

First thing I saw was the brainless, gossipy and good-for-nothing local tabloid newspapers. They do not possess any trace of substance or intelligence. AlL they do is constantly digging out dirty laundries of other people and tagging people with unkindly names. How would the family members feel? Don't they care? Worse, these newspapers have an unimaginable large pool of loyal fans who simply love those "stories" they have woven. I shall illustrate with a classic example: A 19 year old girl and a middle aged married man found dead in a car and was suspected they died of carbon monoxide poisoning; Upper half of the man slumped onto the girl's body. Most of us, I hope, is inquisitive for the cause of their death and explaination for the position they were in. The tabloid newspaper however, will report things: what do the collegues think of them, do they have some relationship, how many children do the married man has, ask the family members to give comments...etc.. And then the news reporters would describe the scene so explicitly that the death of two people became a scandal of an unfaithful husband and a single attractive young girl. Basically they do not show an ounce of respect for the families.

Furthermore with these kind of news circulating and its is not surprising that I am forbidded to stay in hall or hostel. As the elderly put it: things will happen. Great~

I also very convinced that having As do not imply anything but a prove that you have work hard.

Traces of evdience that I am stressed out.

(1) I could sleep like a dead-log even though my alarm clock is ringing its needles off.
(2) I had to press "snooze" on my hp for at least three times before I am thoroughly awake
(3) Events slipping off my mind- Walking to and fro between canteen and library because I couldnt remember why I am heading for these places.
(4) Doing eccentric things like posing with a product and photoshop those pictures . Nono.. I am not the Sk-ll girl.

(5)Having temptation to eat chocolates and drink coffee ( you know the effect on me)
(6) What does Red Bull taste like?
(7) Forgetful - forgetting most of the appoinments, meetings and dates with my friends
(8) Easily irriated

a few funny happenings in school today... hope you all get some laughs or catch a cold

I supposed to return pencil and eraser to my friend because yesterday the forgetful me left her pencil case at home. But today I only brought his pencil. Naturally I returned his pencil and un-naturally passed him my eraser. Next week we shall exchange our erasers.

Met my friend today who was with his group of friends. Since didn see him for quite some time, we chattted... and of all places, behind a bougainvillea bush. Quite misleading ya... a boy and a girl behind a flower bush. His friends whistled across the road.. * so embrassing. I found it funny though.. hahaa~

I suddenly forgot the topic for our chinese project. So when he passed me the articles, I gave him a blank look. Those why-are-you-passing-me-such-boring-and-rather-irrelvant-stuff look. Then I also suddenly remembered that it is our project topic. Later I wanted to photocopy some readings and to my horror, the cash card left a pathetic $0.11. well.. have to borrow from my another friend. His comments: 带你出去很麻烦. We are in the chinese library.

A fencing mask adds a lot of weight to a bag. Therefore, I decided to carry it in my hands. A not really grave mistake. I just get lots of stares and friends asking me what is it. Some even exclaimed " ShiRLYN!! you rode a bike to school!??". A mask is so different from a helment. And strangely today, I noticed that there are a few guys holding their motorcycle helments in their hands walking around campus. That explains the stares and questions.

Today the entry shall features a very special person whose identity I shall not disclosed. However, I believed smart readers like yian ling, sirui and many others would have guessed correctly. . haha.. His contributions to the club are certainly appreciated. Therefore, he has the honour of being mentioned in my blog.

Honorary person: ______________
Occupation(s): Full time student, part time fencing (equipment) technician and temporary full time destroyer.
Past records: too many to be mentioned.
Prominent contributions: Able to revive "dead" blades or resolve problematic blades, usually due to wiring.
Significant deeds: (1) till today, 3 blades have been broken when jun rong and he fenced
(2) Hefang's blade also broke fencing with him
(3) My blade broke when freddy and him fenced ( cuz freddy used my blade)
(4) Lile's sturdy wire died after fencing with him
(5) My clip broke after connecting the spool to him.

So far, none of the members could outshine his wonderful performance. The award thus, shall be his alone. Unless, there is someone who can challenge these.