am back after surviving my midterm =P ok not that it was that bad, but the terrible me didnt do many of the readings still... so when the section on readings came out i had to guess the answers... =P had the luxury of enjoying nice home cooked food the past two nights; on wed nite cooked ;'liu4 wei4 tang1' for dinner cos he happened to buy some herbs and stuff when he went to SF chinatown that morning... the soup really reminded me of mum's soups at home... and also made me ashamed that i didn't 'specialise' in cooking any sort of decent soup... now everyone thinks that when i cook stuff i just make use of all sorts of ready mixes =( so this weekend i shall attempt to cook something original... besides my tofu last week =) and yest nite we had a sumptuous dinner at chin tah's place; cos his parents were leaving for sg and they whipped up many yummy dishes...and i think today we are prob going to zuan yi's place for dinner... .haha quite nice to get free dinner every night!
we watched hao er hao nu yest nite cos chester's mum recorded the serial for him in a dvd and sent it to him... and somehow it feels pretty nice to be able to watch something from home.... and once again i am reminded of the issues confronting many singaporeans, family problems, which though are all so familiar to me, just suddenly really 'take shape' in the show.. hmmm i dunno what i am talking about actually... but i think this serial is a pretty realistic portrayal of families in real life... the ever suspecting and poke-her-nose-into-everyone's-business wife, the independent 'new woman' who has to postpone her family plans to pursue her career, clash in values and beliefs between the older and younger generations.... and the vulnerability of relationships, the ability of even slight mistrust or even slight understanding to just tear apart a relationship. i sometimes really wonder why is it that many a time, we take such a long time to build up relationships with people, but it seriously takes just so little to break it all up. or upset it. i think its mainly because many of us are insecure creatures... well least i think i am quite an insecure creature... but i dun think it's that possible to correct that? haha anyway shiyun and i were still going strong at about 130am while ziyang had already "concussed" on the floor beside us; felt a little guilty... if only my laptop could play dvds too =( shall go back to add a dvd combo drive when i go back in dec..

supposed to be doing all my econ readings in preparation for my midterm on thursday... but i shall take a break for now.. sigh not that i hav been doing much all day... managed to pull myself away from the tv back into my room to do work but i think i probably wun start till 10pm.. procrastinate... =( life is strangely monotonous sometimes... which makes me wonder why studying dominates so much of our lives... somehow the house feels strangely quiet though there are three studious souls inhabiting it... actually the whole neighborhood feels really quiet, and yet in each of these houses there are people, individuals all engrossed in their individual tasks... so much going on but everything is concealed from everyone else's eyes... haha i think i am mad, doing some weird analysis from exterior to interior.. talking nonsense already. somehow not seeing any of the singaporeans except my housemates for the most part of the week really makes me wonder what everyone else is doing in their houses.. in their own rooms...
found out today from the guys that jehovah's witnesses hav to be put in military prison or something for 'evading' NS in singapore, since their faith prevents that from carrying arms or taking up arms or something to that effect. how terrible, to be prosecuted for believing in something...
learnt a new word today! eldorado: an imaginary place of great wealth and opportunity; sought in South America by 16th-century explorers China is dubbed to be the last eldorado, in one article in the straits times.....
ok enough of random ramblings... shall go bathe now =)

am in the midst of catching up on my econ material still.... did my both hws halfway only despite not going out for dinner and i hav to complete 100b tmr morning and 171 tmr nite! =( though i should be religiously reading my required readings for 171, which i haven't done at all.. almost!, i really feel like penning down something funny that i saw on tv today! was having dinner so decided to watch simpsons on the fox channel... and after that there appeared this tv show titled 'banzai' which was one of the most ridiculous programs i have ever seen.... it's a japanese show with all sorts of crazy experiments/ hypothetical situations asking viewers to bet on the outcomes. for example, the very first thing they did was to ask viewers how many balloons would it take to lift a chicken from the ground.. 30, 60, 90 or 120.... then they got an 'animal scientist' to try out the experiment... and the ans was 90 (though i seem to condemn the show i tried guessing too haha and i was correct =P)... but the poor chicken was just lifted from the ground and i really wonder what happened to it.... poor creature... well.. hav to say that the japanese do come up with all sorts of ideas... brilliant and somewhat strange ones too... =P

watched pirates of the carribean yesterday and thought it was pretty good. and entertaining... and it had an interesting plot... and there was this historical reference to the Aztec gold that Cortez and the spanish got from New Spain... thought it was quite cool cos i kinda read about it in my IAS 45 class... =) haha one frivolous reason why i wanted to watch it was also cos Orlando Bloom was acting in it... but i still think he looks better as Legolas with long blond hair =P
experimented with cooking once again yesterday and i made my own sweet and sour sauce! and it turned out pretty well so i was secretly pleased with my mini achievement. i attempted to 'replicate' the DC sweet and sour tofu with peanuts... haha. yay shall cook that again some day.
stayed at home all day today, in an attempt to be a good girl and do my work... but haven't been that successful; low productivity rate.. =( and was doing my hw just now and i realized that i dun really understand what i am learning.... in that my understanding is so shallow that i cannot really apply my concepts to sometimes twisted problems. oh no... and reading through the whole tb seriously takes a lot of time.. =( that was for econ 100b. i am in a similar plight for my econ c171.... stress stress. and midterm's next week!! =( feel really terrible now.