lots of ramblings ahead

Lots of stupid pictures today, because it's my SLACK day. After a crazy two weeks, I hope my life will start having a semblence of normality...at least for awhile. Anyway, that's why I see, every single day, before I go to sleep... I come back, dumb every thing, start to rush my work, then when I finally get to go to bed, i realize, 'shucks, I need to pack...'...guess it's obvious what I did today from the Zara and WH carriers...=)

Last night, feeling slightly liberated after finishing my sixth mid-term and looking forward to getting Econs presentation over and done with today...I got inspired, rang up Manda...and tadaa! Shopping today.

My, I think this is absolutely lovely...some CLEO display of designer Barbies and Dollhouses... so many of them, with different themes (spot the Espirit one)...I used to love barbie dolls when I was young, but I've never seen any so pretty...

Manda and I... and we love this picture, think the lighting makes us look glowing... which is nothing that I am now, considering I've been sleeping an average of 4-5 hours a day for two weeks. This morning, when I put on some smokey eye shadow (I'm into black eyeshadow, haha), I had to rub someaway...together with my really black eye rings, I looked like I decided to paint black circles round my eyes...

Anyway babe, thanks for coming out today! In fact, thanks for being one of the best shopping partners! Or rather, best watching-shopping-partner. I shop, you watch (extremely patiently)haha. I will send you the Barbie pictures soon! What am I doing to do without you as my fashion guru on exchange...

New purchases (and some shameless photowhoring...i know I look bad, 12 midnight!). Finally found one of those semi-formal-collar-inside thingy in ZARA, and it was only 16.90! Decided to buy one for QY too, since she seems to like these kind of thing...

And I LOVE the latest (okay, maybe not latest, since I haven't been to town for so long) collection of T-shirts at Zara... see the black shirt on top...admittedly, it looks like any other black/shiny zara shirt that I have, BUT it has ZARA written right across it...now I can be a (very willing) walking advertisement for my favourite store... the other two designs are in white, but they ran out of S-sizes...sigh, one of them is really so sweet, looks like a magazine cover... for once, I prefer white over black, and they don't have size, can't believe it. The salesgirl said Marina has it, but they'll only hold reservations for one day, and I don't know if I've time to go down tomorrow.

Digression- much as I love Zara, I've a million complains... Why are their sizes so inconsistent?! I got Size M (which is my normal size) for the black one, which fitted perfectly...but the white Size M is somehow bigger... they should just standardize their cuts...my Zara clothes come in S,M,L because their sizes are never consistent...AND their skirts are always so big, even in S-sizes... AND their pants are so small/fitting that I get depressed trying them...AND why don't they have any Zara membership cards or something... or discounts with any cards...AND their vouchers cannot be used during sales period, which made Ray decide not to give me Zara vouchers last time, haha.

I want my size S white shirts =(

Cheery stripe shirt's from WH. Manda insisted I needed something different from my regular clothes...

...then, I decided, how come I've never ever taken a picture with my favourite store??? So there goes...me and my Zara bags at Zara Wheelock.

Enough about clothes.

I almost died the last two weeks...so busy with tests/projects/piano that I had no time to prepare for my Econs presentation today until about 11pm last night when Vi came over to do it. Thank goodness there were loads of people who helped me by providing answers (haha) and explaining stuff, like Daqi, Linda, Dingsheng, Kelvin. I actually feel kind of bad, have never 'cheated' so much in my entire life, but I just didn't have any time this week!

I was so stressed last night that I actually forgot to eat my dinner. Had a few cookies when I went to attend the last mintue HnF comm meeting, prepared for Econs presentation...and at 2am, I stood up to go to the washroom, and I felt so dizzy...that was when I realized I was starrrvvvinnnngggg. Decideding that I really didn't have enough energy to make it to the washroom, I immediately plonked myself right back at my desk, grabbed some food from the shelf next to me and started munching. Then I went to the washroom. Dinner at 2am, how sad is my life man.

As usual, Friday econs tutorial comes with some Friday bitchiness about the tutor. She was studying her own book during most of our presentation. She would be reading, and once in awhile, she would look up and say, 'good.' And that's probably only because she likes guys and Vi was dressed nicely today (well, that's what she told him) In fact, I couldn't help but notice that she said 'good' after both the two guys in my group presented

... halfway through, her favourite student got a bit confused and asked a pretty silly question, and she went over to 'scold' him for being blur as we continued presenting to her back. She thought we were 'excellent', which doesn't count for anything since she didn't listen to a thing we said. After we finished, I decided to try ask her a question that I didn't understand, she obviously didn't know the answer and hushed me by saying, 'later.' Obviously 'later' never came, as usual.

I've long given up on learning anything in Econs tutorial. I hate to say this, but I only go because I'm so lost in Econs that I might just screw up the exams, and the last thing I need is to lose marks from attendance. What a shame. At the end of the semester, when it's time to fill in those feedback forms, I'll make sure that I'll complain about all her incompetence. In fact, maybe I should just write an E-mail. Oh yea, she looked through the class list today and saw that XXX scored 22/25 for the Mid Sem Test, just as her favourite student walked in. So she asked him, 'Is your name XXX?' (Amazing, she doesn't even know her favourite student's name.) Anyway, even though most of us arejust 'huh-ing' through every single tutorial, she told us that considers us to be her 'strongest' class and had high hopes that we would 'perform' during the mid sem tests and not let her down...right. She probably thinks the entire class is made up of one student. I CANNOT STAND IT.

At least I met 2 funky groupmates in Econs, Jill and Suyi, who're from NY too. Discovered that Jill likes yam paos, shopping and sushi too, haha. And Jill told me that Junxian was fighting with her to get the last yam pao in the canteen today...didn't know there were so many yam pao fans around. No wonder the canteen always runs out of paos before I can get them.

I don't feel like sleeping-when I wake up, it'll be back to work. Can't believe I'm still so awake despite barely sleeping last night. I finally had some time to read the Kellerman book on the way to town today. Maybe I should just cuddle up and read some more (oh nono, must pack the bed first.)

It suddenly feels like a coincidence. I just recalled that at this time a year ago, exactly the Friday after Exxonmobil concert ended...I finished my presentation for the writing module, decided I needed to get out, and took a bus down to Orchard - but, alone. A year ago, I walked past Paragon, ran into someone, and came back feeling worst than ever. Today, I ate at Spaggeddies Paragon, and came back feeling glad that I met up with Manda. Oh well, I just can't believe - it's been a year.