I love Chinese New Year for a few reasons. One of them is the getting together with family. Another reason is getting the excuse to buy new clothes.

And of course the most important one is the FOOD! (maybe not more important than family, but nevertheless quite important)

I wanted to upload photos of the huge banquet meal we had at my uncle's house but blogger's being an absolute ass, so i guess you have to imagine the huge spread of food that we had access to.

And to add to all that, i cooked the lorbah :D

and i also love all my cousins! I have always wondered how many i have, i always lose count halfway and then give up. That's the problem when your grandmother gives birth to 10 children.

a happy chinese new year to all!

i like where rise against is going with their new album



"a flag white as snow"

I'm not very satisfied with the way i've been living my life. Is studying so hard for intangible grades really how I want to live my life. We study, we have exams, we get a job, we work. What happens next. I don't want to have my entire life planned out for me.

But I know for sure that I don't want to be studying for my entire life. My life is ending one minute at a time.

And I sure as hell am not going to waste any more of it.

Chapter Two begins. Now.

would you rather i blog about what i did today? or what's on my mind?

hmm. well. the only thing that's on my mind is of the upcoming exams, but i'm probably thinking about the next time i'd get to sleep as well.

to tell you the truth, i'm actually scared of the promos. if you do well, you get into the dean's list. if you dont, you retake the year5 level. which i'd rather not. so it's either one of the two extremes. getting an 'average' grade isnt much use. it's just enough to get you promoted but not enough to do anything else. and with only 9 days left to the exams, i cant help but fear the exams.

i'm barely two subjects through. i'm working on such a tight schedule. if i dont manage to finish mugging everything, i'm as good as screwed. i dont think i'm actually smart enough to not study and do well. i think i'm just hardworking enough to cram everything before the exams and regurgitate everything during the paper. which isnt exactly the smartest exam strategy but it's the only one i can adopt.

with limited brainspace and unlimited distractions around the house, i need to lock myself in a room with cartons of red bull in order for me to get any work done. with no rooms available and no cartons of red bull in sight, all i can do now is cram as much as i can in my current state productivity.

to make matters worse, my mum wanted to view some exhibition (i guess you can call it that) for a condominium in toronto. no idea why she's thinking of buying a new house in canada but it's actually much closer to my sister's university, like 15 minutes away. but it's right smack in toronto city so the prices are insane. it's actually the tallest condo in canada. 70 over stories. and it's got wonderful views. but still grossly overpriced.

and after spending like half an hour looking through random stuff, we actually had lunch at mariott hotel. which is ALSO grossly overpriced. i ate a huge megalarge burger. and my mum had some spring chicken i think.

the receipt almost made me piss my pants.

anyways. i better get back to studying. my chemistry's half done (less than half done) and it's screaming my name.

somehow, all the legendary headbangers and moshpit songs happen to have similar bpms.

so before an artist tries to write an awesome headbanger, doesnt he have to use the right tempo. it would be quite a bumming song if when u tried to mosh to it, but the beat throws your moshing way off =/

it occured to me while i noticed some yalams trying to mosh while BLG were playing thunder. doesnt exactly seem to be the kind of song to mosh to now is it.

i think they were quite satisfied with how much everyone moshed during The Great Escape though.

what an atmosphere.



there's a difference between being hardworking and being smart.

being smart means, you absorb things faster than others, and u might not even need revision to retain knowledge.

being hardworking however, means that you have to slave away infront of books for hours before you understand anything.

people who are smart might not even need to revise work to do well in exams.

while people who are hardworking would only be able to do moderately well by mugging their asses off.

as much as i'd like to say that i'm smart, i think i'm more of a hardworking person.

or at least i'm moderately hardworking =/

which means i do suck bad during exams.

dammit.

the best relationships seem to happen when one person can provide something that the other person cannot.

for example. a relationship cannot exist when there are two independent people, or two needy people. two needy people just end up crying half their life, while two independent people are well... too independent to need another person.

so the best relationships work when there's one independent person and one needy person.
but why is it that needy people are attracted to independent people. and why do independent people keep thinking they can fix needy people.

needy people dont need independent people, they just need help.

why get into a relationship if you know it would never work out. are you in it for those few moments of comfort. why put yourself through it all if you know the pain u feel after a breakup feels alot worse than the pain you feel of being alone in the first place.

i saw a stnicks girl crying while on the phone on the mrt on friday. i might be jumping to conclusions but let's assume it was cause of a relationship problem. i doubt she'd be on the phone for the entire duration of the mrt ride if her grandma had just passed away, or if she found out she failed all her exams.

so relationship problem it is.

i found it quite amusing that she kept adjusting her skirt while crying. you're crying for goodness sakes. why do you still bother about how you look.

never did like relationships. too much hassle with too little reward.

i think i'm an independent. i hope to stay that way.

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