10.31.2004

 

[downhill]

and just when i thought everything was looking up. i really shouldn't do any anticipatory posts - "things are beginning to look up!" because (and you can prove this yourself, too) over the long run probability favours something really big to screw up and mess with your mood.

first things first - daylight savings time is now over (apparently) so the clocks are set back by 1h. hence, the time difference from SGP to here is now -8h, not -7 (as it was yesterday). shdnt be a diff for US peeps like gen, yk etc because you're probably on DST as well so no net effect.

anyway i didn't receive my checkbook by the mail for over a month and have been chasing my bank for it. imagine my surprise when i just happened to print out an account statement when i was withdrawing money.. someone cashed a check out of my account for £860!! i discovered that sometime mid-late last week but nothing can be done until the copy of the cheque arrives at the bank. whee.. that's no small sum of $.

nursing a horrible headache now - no it's not alcohol related!! - it's probably the summation of all these little nitty gritty things turning into low-grade stress.

*really annoyed*

The Zutons - Don't Ever Think

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I'm standing on the edge of the cliff
And I'm thinking it through my mind
I'm afraid that I'm about to slip
Because my body is out of time

And I'm thinking, thinking, thinking, think
Thinking till I'm nearly dead
Do you remember when you were young?
Do you remember what your mother said?

She said, don't ever think, ever think, ever think too much
and don't ever think, ever think, ever think too much
and don't ever think, ever think, ever think too much
and don't ever think, ever think, ever think too much

Obsession is a terrible thing
Does it happen to everyone?
As mother nature comes with a sting
And it persecutes everyone

And I'm lying, I'm lying, I'm lying awake
Lying in my burnt out bed
Do you remember when you were young?
Do you remember what your mother said?

She said, don't ever think, ever think, ever think too much
and don't ever think, ever think, ever think too much
and don't ever think, ever think, ever think too much
and don't ever think, ever think, ever think too much

And I think again
And I think again
It's just the thinking I don't understand
It's all holes, built to wires
But persecution is on fire

Don't ever think, ever think, ever think too much
and don't ever think, ever think, ever think too much (repeat to fade)

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liked that so much that i bought the vinyl single! £1.50 only.. wow. now i only need a turntable..

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10.26.2004

 

[looking up]

well.. things are finally beginning to look up! it's still a mad rush trying to keep pace with what's going on in lectures & dissections while still trying to maintain street cred (sigh!) without compromising on what i feel comfortable with.

but hey, things are looking up.. CORRECTLY identified the median nerve (it's kinda soft and squidgy for a nerve) in the carpal tunnel - which everybody else thought was the radial artery (apparently more soft and squidgy, but the point is that it's somewhere ELSE altogether) - and which they mistook for the tendon of palmaris longus (which i correctly identified as well). small victory, yes, but at least my intuition is still working correctly.

had a great time at sat's Stanton Warriors gig at the Junction (past the railway station, so that's really far.. but not as far as when I have to get to Homerton College for kendo trg, that's the venue they've booked for the past week + ) and i must say i have NEVER felt more at home in the UK. (some decent music for a change!) .. there's really not much point in going out a few times a week if the music's all generic and crap, but then that's just me.

lots of other assorted incidents as well that i don't have the time to get into here, though i'm STILL owed my chequebook and bank statement from HSBC. 3 weeks and counting, whee.

if i was to actually sit down and think hard about what's been happening, the victories have been really small compared to the setbacks - but for some strange reason i'm just not sad. i'm positively buoyant and i have no idea why.. hope this lasts!

oh, and because the title was "quote me on this..."

"Relationships are like tennis: courting is involved, balls are involved, and love is a score."
-- Pris and QX, on the phone

no appropriate songs for this post, unfortunately!

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10.09.2004

 

[freshers' week]

hi all, i'm gradually settling in, but before i can do so the workload's already piling up!

my room's nice and big and, after a spot of decoration or two, very cheery! =)

getting to grips with my bike (second hand, 50 GBP + 45 GBP accessories) - the first day i just kept running into things, including but not limited to: the hedge just outside college, a metal post next to the market square that just rose out of the ground in front of me (to my extreme horror) which caused me to flip over the handlebars, and the side of a bridge (don't ask the name), causing my spanking new polycarbonate water bottle to disappear into the depths of the river cam.

anyway that was a few days ago, and just yesterday i was happily riding alone in the dark all the way across town to the YMCA for kendo training. fencing helps A LOT, that's what i can say, but it's way more regimented and i don't know how long i'll maintain interest. (it's not cheap, either..)

ok photo time!



My room.. the one just above the corridor.

Heh.

I'm here, if you look carefully..

that's it for now. future updates will probably be extremely brief! o_O xx

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