idled my time away yesterday! it was veterans day.... a holiday for us but not for stanford ppl i dunno why? nor duke ppl for that matter.. veterans day is supposed to be a day meant for honoring US war veterans...i think! haha as its name suggests.... baked instant choc chip walnut cookies in the morning, then went with faith to berkeley's 4th street to walk walk.... it was a pretty nice andclassy little place.... with so many artsy shops and lovely paper stores that just made me go mad.. haha. but there were all beyond my budget though. so could only see.. cannot buy. also went to the dicovery channel's store... and i saw this cute innovative soft toy meant to teach kids music. it's an octopus with "squeaky" tentacles... each one making a different note.... it comes with this little instruction card with instructions on how to play mary had a little lamb by squeezing the various tentacles. supposed to be done with kids so that parent and kid can learn together... how smart and fun! =) also saw a book on pyramids, which made me realize that i didn't even know what the seven ancient wonders of the world were! so i went to check it out..... sadly most of them are ruined already and apparently not all seven of them existed at the same time.
then came back in late afternoon and did a few pages of reading..... then in the end at night spent half the time chatting online and packaging some of the cookies i intended to give away..... oh well. but i really enjoyed myself yesterday, cept all the procrastinating.... haha since when was i last so happy?

went to the berkeley fall arts festival on saturday and though it wasnt as impressive as i thought it would be, but some participants of the chalk art competition really impressed me... like they can just start drawing with no reference picture... and the proportions are all right.. and the shading is so brilliant... tsk tsk. i can never do that...
and i think i was strange on sat. maybe i take things too seriously, such that little things mean so much more to me than to other people....
finally finished my PEIS paper... though i dun think it's brilliant but at least it's much better than the state it was in like 1 week ago. really really hope i can get at least an A- for it....
wanted to get a card for my dad cos his birthday's on friday! but then knowing him, and i dunno if it's like all guys in general, he just anyhow chucks the cards that i give him and i dunno if he even appreciates it... haha no lah. i'm sure he does, it's just that perhaps he doesn't show it.... and guess guys can't be really bothered with little little things that girls like me do... like letters and stuff. so i went online trying to search for a gift for him.... and decided to try out sweet secrets' photocake thingy... hehe... now i am really excited to see how the cake i ordered turns out.... i mean though these cakes aren't very nice nor pretty, but the novelty of just trying it once is still worth it i guess... wonder what his reaction would be when he sees a cake with his face on it! ..... my dad would prob assume that my mum bought an ordinary cake or something haha.... =P