Sick and Sleepless

I hope I've finally learnt my lesson. After eating one entire tube of Ritz Cheese Crackers on Monday (that's like... 15 pieces!) and nothing but an insane number of biscuits for dinner on Wednesday, I finally woke up on Saturday with a sore throat. For once, I was quite looking forward to working at Spageddies, but had to call in sick... Right now, I can't sleep because I'm coughing like nuts. If I cough anymore, I'll probably cough away a whole kilogram and my mum will really think there's something wrong with me.

The world is never fair, like how it's really so unfair that I fall sick all the time. I'm one of the healthiest people I know. See-
(1) I can't live without exercising.
(2) I love eating fruits. (think I eat at least 2 fruits a day...and usually more.)
(3) I don't take most soft drinks because I hate them.
(4) I don't dare to eat chocolates because they give me sore throats all the time.
(5) I even made the effort to wean off the Coke Light addiction!
Fine, the unhealthy list-
(1) I sleep late.
(2) I like chilli.
(3) I can eat a lot, and I mean, ALOT of biscuits.
(4) I like to drink coffee (but hey, I try my best to take caffeine only once in two days now.)
(5) I absolutely refuse to drink milk because it's...yucks.
(6) I almost can't walk past Bread Talk without eating pork floss bun (think pork floss is quite heaty...)
And it's always the throat! I hope I never reach a point when I have to stop eating chilli and biscuits...man, that's depressing!

Anyway, I was so sick and bored today that I finally decided to play around with my blog layout. I'm rather amused, because just last night, I was looking at blogskins for fun... and this afternoon, Linda showed me a layout which she thought suited my blog.... and it turned out to be the exact one which I almost copied last night. I also found it really apt as it said 'summer time'... very ironically, I decided against using it because it was black...for someone who wears so much black, it's quite weird that having a black layout doesn't appeal to me huh.

And I must mention, Amanda and I watched The Devil Wears Prada on Tues evening, and it totally rocked! Meryl Streep was simply hilarious. I've always thought she was quite a class of her own as an actress, but I think she outdid herself this time...even without a very substantial plot, the pretty clothes are enough to make the movie worth watching (for any girl, at the very least! =) ). Manda, I wish we could make every Tuesday movie day or something!

And it was set in NYC... all those scenes showing the hustle and bustle of the jam-packed streets kept reminding me that I'll (most probably) be going there for half a year. Must have been the effects of having just attended SEP briefing. I might like to look at tall trees, enjoy running by the waters of the reservoir, miss Fraser Hill because its greenery gave me such a sense of peace, but I've never, ever, doubted that I'm really a city girl at heart. I know I'll always want to live where the streets are filled with people, where there're places to go to (especially for food) 24/7, where there are advertisements everywhere....and where I get to be the consumerist whore that I am and indulge in retail therapy (haha). I've loved NYC each time I visited, and I hope, come Spring 2007, I still love it.

This past week has been nolstagic. On Monday, I met Melissa briefly at the Mrt Station to pass her stuff before she went back to Beijing. Then I had dinner + coffee bean (which really resulted in a lot of eating!) with Engsiang... that's one friend I only talk to when he's back in Singapore, but there's alway so much to say- from the philosophy of mathematics, how to motivate ourselves to exercise... and of course, endless gossip. On Wednesday morning, I called Estelle at the airport to say Bye before she left for NYC. We always had this joke about how 'I follow Estelle' and 'Estelle follows me'... and this time, she said, 'Next semester, you'll really follow me!' On Friday, I met up with Fuzzy...which was heartwarming because I felt like I was speaking from my heart all the time, and it was nice to hear an old friend talk. And she told me, 'Chengwei, you sound happy now.' wow, I was a happy enough girl just hearing that. And she's leaving very soon too.

Sigh.