The last stretch

came home yesterday evening after a tiring long day at sch to find a small parcel sitting at my door... it was filled with Easter goodies, including a candy cane with this bunny perched right on top of the colorful cane... feel like i have a fairy godmother somewhere in LA haha. ;P so that sweet gesture really made my day. came home feeling like there's still a lot of work to be done in the remaining 10 days or so, but somehow i failed to do any work yesterday. but i think i deserved a tiny break, after a crazy week... anyway, time for work soon!

for the first time ever..... i overslept and missed my jap class! aargh. this is the second time this week; on tues i intentionally skipped Jap to study for midterm; today i actually woke up at 430 am to try to read the thesis drafts i have to read by Friday, but unfortunately got so tired by around 6am that i decided to take a nap.... sigh. haven't been managing work very well this week. doesn't help that i will still have to finish reading all these thesis drafts and study for Jap quiz all by tmr. but when i put things in perspective, i have no reason at all to complain. i say this cos i watched this really depressing short documentary on undocumented Mexican workers for my Geog section this morning... millions risk their lives crossing borders and navigating through deserts just to get better jobs in the US so that they can support their families back home... (and so this documentary was on how one guy died in the process and they interviewed his family members etc) while i'm really touched how simple desires for their loved ones to have better lives can motivate these individuals to undertake such dangerous tasks; at the same time i feel extremely saddened that terrible economic circumstances forced many to have to express their love for their families in such a way.

That is a lego plane Kai gave me on Sunday morning for 'flying back to sg'. Though he didn't make it (his dad made it for him) it was pretty generous of him to give it to me! (maybe for the time being though. but still...) ya. i guess occasionally we re-establish ties. sometimes i wish i interacted more with my housemates... these days i've been out so much doing work that i dun see them that much anymore. =(
the past few days have been extremely distressing for me. not just cos bad things/deadlines/midterm all come at one go, but also cos good things come at the worst of times. and that makes me pretty upset. sometimes i get so pissed with myself for being unable to shut off emotions when the need arises =(