Time for Christmas!

The desk during exams...NUS home page, paper to try to redo all my Econs tutorials...

...and desk after exams Staring at my Zara desktop, can go on MSN, new pretty postcards from Borders, new planner for 2007, new travel journal!

...and post-exam fun!

Oh man, I really need to say this at least 10 times- it'soverit'soverit'soverit'soverit'soverit'soverit'soverit'soverit'soverit'sOVER. (I used the copy and paste function, obviously.) *massive sigh of relieft*

I swear I'm never going to put myself through such torture again. 4 papers, 2 days... not that I would ever have done it, if not for the fact that I wanted to clear my modules before exchange. Yesterday was a complete nightmare... as if my brain wasn't saturated enough from weird economics equations, I had to deal with all the accounting policies, bad debt estimates, income statements... oh my goodness, I eventually reached a point when I just didn't know what was going on no matter what I was reading...and the only thing relevant to the Solow Growth Model that actually registered in my brain was that I had in fact reached a steady state, and my knowledge wasn't going to grow anymore even if I increased my rate of study! (Okay, I bet no one understands what on earth I'm rambling about.)

... and I just couldn't sleep because there were so many random pieces of things from here and there that were just floating about in my mind... in fact, I thought I was going to fall sick and wake up with a fever. No fever, but I looked like absolute shit today, guess all the face masks to keep myself awake didn't work after all. Actually, I think I just look like crap during every exam. One of my project groupmates actually gasped when she saw me on tuesday...:s

Once upon a time, I was convinced that I should major in Economics. Today, I left 25 marks of the Econs paper almost completely blank. Oh well, not that I really care. I can't believe I've come to be capable of such apathy, but truth is, it just doesn't seem to be worth the effort these days... and now that exams has ended, SEP seems so close all of a sudden...so many things to settle before I go, all of which I'm too lazy to do. The sense of anticipation that in one months time, it'll be a new place, new sights, new things. And yet, I'm almost dreading it. Why.

Anyway, I don't think I've ever been so excited to go to town before! Must be the result of waking up at 6am everyday and alternating between staring at the window and staring (blankly) at the textbook. Throughout the entire bus ride, I just kept thinking about how I haven't seen the Christmas lights and couldn't even concentrate on reading my novel, haha...

... and indeed, Orchard Road didn't disappoint me, pretty lights, beautiful blue Xmas tree at Paragon, new shopfront at Centrepoint's Timberland, streets teeming with people and mainly because... it was also Manda's last day of exams and there we were again, photowhoring, hopping about Zara, WH, Espirit, Borders... don't think we'll ever get sick of doing those things, right babe? Now we can add settling down at Cafe Cartel to the list!=p In case anyone is wondering, NO, I did not buy anything from Zara... haven't patronized them for so long, but they still have no new stock :(

Sigh, I wish it was Christmas all year round. It's when there're all those lights, songs that make me few happy... perfect ambience to go shopping, which I definitely haven't had enough of, been deprived for too long! And it's when Starbucks / Coffee Bean start selling their various xmas concoctions... ahhh, peppermint caramel mocha is worth putting on 1kg for. It's when I start looking for pretty cards, and think about what to write, what to buy... I'm probably a victim of all the commercialization of the season, happy, willing victim. And there's a song that always captures what I like about the season...

City sidewalks, busy sidewalks.
Dressed in holiday style
In the air
There's a feeling
of Christmas
Children laughing
People passing
Meeting smile after smile
and on every street corner you'll hear
Silver bells, silver bells
It's Christmas time in the city
Ring-a-ling, hear them sing
Soon it will be Christmas day
Strings of street lights
Even stop lights
Blink a bright red and green
As the shoppers rush
home with their treasures
Hear the snow crunch
See the kids bunch
This is Santa's big scene
And above all this bustle
You'll hear
Silver bells, silver bells
It's Christmas time in the city
Ring-a-ling, hear them sing
Soon it will be Christmas day

PS: Linda, I don't know why I dreamt we went shopping last night, must be too deprived already...let's go to Vivocity next week, while I'm still about Pee Gee Pee.... haha