Insomnia
Went to Bondi with Kaye and Sheetal the other day, where we had a picnic. It was a nice day and the beach wasn’t too packed (thank god for school days). We bought some picnic items like bread, meat, greens and cookies to keep ourselves entertained. Mmm… potato salad on bread sure was nice. We’re going out again some time next week for some actual pancakes this time. Hopefully, my savoury tastebuds don’t kick in, haha.
Later that night, I caught up with Nalene and Amanda, and it was really fun, cos we haven’t hung out in well over two months or so now. It was “good music night on 96.1FM”, which is an RNB/Hip Hop station, so we heated up my pumpkin soup (dinner) and were off in the car. Nails drove us to Burwood where Amanda wanted to get ice cream, but as soon as we walked into Copenhagen, they said they were closed. They should’ve closed the bloody door and maybe dim the lights while they mopped the floor, those muppets. Anyway, the convenience store was good enough for us, and we were back in the car. Woo! We went around alright, landing at our favourite HJ carpark where we usually hang out. It was empty. We would’ve went to Orange Grove, but the place was packed with driftheads.
The people on across the street are using some epic echo amplifying sound system for their karaoking that it makes it impossible to sleep. It isn’t helped by their fail singing/wailing.
Geekmeister
Went for a lovely catch up with Sheetal and Kaye at the Rocks last Wednesday. It’s been a while since we had one of these outings, and I hadn’t seen them since my birthday, last October. Sheetal and I went to Pancakes on the Rocks before we met up with Kaye. I haven’t been there in AGES! It’s funny, because everytime I go there, I rarely ever order pancakes. I think it’s too much of a sugar overload for me (weak!), but seriously, I’ll get headaches. I will most likely go all Professor Frink and break into seizures or babble incoherence.
I’ve trapped a fly between the glass and flyscreen of the window two hours ago. It’s still flying around all pregnant-like.
The holiday period has adverse reactions on my brain: I read more, write more, am more critically apt and pick up concepts more easily than during the active semester where I refuse to put effort, time and thought into anything that will subsequently turn up horribly on my end-of-program transcsript. This sucks, my psyche hates me. Now, who wants to help me find the Unified Field Theory?
Dammit, everybody’s fallen asleep around here. Am going to attempt cooking tonight with Kan Tong. Oh baby.
Rattler and train.
I can’t sleep. I can recall two very early memories. I am almost doubting the credibility of them because it’s hard to imagine being able to remember so far back:
I must’ve been 1-2 years old, sitting on the kitchen floor with a white bone shapped rattle with two yellow and red balls at both ends looking up at my mother fixing dinner.
I was 3 years old— it was difficult for me to fall asleep at night, so my dad would take me on train rides at night and this man on the train was smiling and talking to my dad— possibly about me. I’d always have fallen asleep by the time we got home.
That was all. I still can’t get to sleep. I think it’s too hot or something. Even when it’s hot, I still need to be blanketed over. If it’s too hot in any case, which this is, I will stick my feet out so I look like a fucking turtle.
Damn mobile Internet. It’s making things like this so much easier. In most cases, I wouldn’t be stuffed, but my phone is right here, so there’s no excuse.
Okay, I should be good now. Goodnight y’all!
Humidity’s rising…
I passed my DQT yesterday so now I have my fulls. Woo! No more whacking on the P plates whenever I take the car out. I’m so relieved. I don’t even drive very often, but I just wanted a licence so that I can. Was about to head out afterwards with Cass, but it was waaay too hot. I hear it’ll be much cooler tomorrow though, like early 20s or something. I hate how drastic the weather is becoming. Most people I’ve been talking to haven’t been able to sleep at night, either. A lot of tossing and turning due to humidity. It’s so hard for me to get to sleep before 1am these nights and I wake up a lot earlier than I normally would have- like, 6 or 7am. It’s terrible, my body clock is disoriented.
Everybody is jetting off these summer holidays. Oh, vacation envy. I wish I was going away, too. Maybe it’s not too late to arrange a week thing in Byron in February. Hmmm… thinking..
It’s too hot to think. I’m going to lie under the AC until I get a headache.
Cu’shee gets old
Birthday boy
Segs, Jer, Jake, Jonathan & Geoff
I’m camera shy & Jer’s free birthday mocktail
The other night, we went out to celebrate Jer’s birthday at Wagaya. Nice food, thanks Segs and Geoff for the cake and tarts. They were yummy. Star Bar afterwards for shots for the birthday boy, but sadly they didn’t do shots (at the time anyway). Maybe they stopped doing it after a certain time, it was already 10 something by this stage. Took the train to Riverwood where Geoff dropped me, Jake and Jer off. Jake had already dozed on the train before we got to Revesby and by the time I got dropped off, he probably didn’t even know where he was.
Hung out with Joey yesterday. Good ol’ Noodle House never disappoints. I’m already going a little insane from staying at home too much. Had I not gone out the other night, I think I would’ve been delirious by yesterday. Actually, I sorta already was.
Gonna be hot tomorrow. I got my material ready :O)
Lean wit it, rock wit it
I went out to book my DQT at the RTA today. I didn’t know it was called a DQT, so when the lady behind the register was asking what I had wanted to be tested for, I told her “the one after the green Ps”. She must’ve thought I was an idiot who didn’t do my research. Well, I did do my research, a good five months ago when I was supposed to go for this bloody thing, to which I haven’t found the time til now. I’ve downloaded the handbook, which is a whopping 94 pages. I think it’s something of a combination between a DKT and an HPT. Damn acronyms.
While in the neighbourhood, I did some fruit shopping as well. The green grocers were packed, but the fruit and veg looked soooo good. Didn’t get bananas, which we ran out of this morning. I wanted to make the banana and coconut tapioca sweet, too, but I guess Asian bananas will have to do, for now, anyway… if I can find them.
It was so hot today, but a lot of people out in town. I didn’t run into anyone, though, which is a rarity for a weekend.
Lunch calls, happy Saturday!
Science
Five years ago, I was sitting in class dissing science and all that it had to offer, throwing planes at the teacher, participating in singalongs with the people in the back row with E.J and his guitar, losing it in hold-in-your-laugh competitions, ROFLing at the Miss Universe pageant walk offs between Leila and Sunita, encouraging Aleks with his hilarious Jetstar ad imitations and Spongebob’s smile, repeating ROYGBIV over the hilarity of the teacher’s pronunciation, terrorising the Blah Book, splitting my guts over Jack Michaelson and other indecent jokes and watching my friends being sent out for laughing too much.
Now, science is the field where I have decided to base a career in.
It’s funny how things work, and how quickly they can change.
First day of freedom
I had went to the local library to scan something off and to look for some chick lit when Joey called asking if I had wanted to have lunch with her and Diana- who came down from Newtown for the day- Heck yes! It was great, cos I haven’t seen Diana since last year, which didn’t feel that long ago, actually. We went to Noodle House in Cabra and then walked around trying to find a nice place to sit. It’s pretty hard finding any decent places to sit in Cabramatta, which is probably the reason why Asians squat, but hey. We evenually settled in a Thai sweets shop with some fried banana. Yuuum.
Diana left after a couple of… hours and I went back to Joey’s and we watched Hairspray. It was.. o.. okay. The beginning started off really slowly, but it got a bit better towards the middle and end. I stayed over til about 11 something. Epic! I was so tired, though and could barely keep my head from nodding off. I got woken up this morning at around 9 something. I’m supposed to go to the RTA, but I am way too lazy to go out anywhere. After exam celebrations, all I could even think about doing is staying at home and reading up on chaos theory or chick lit. Either goes :O)
Cleaned out my study as well. Several stacks of paper went into the recycling bin, which involved several trips in and out of the house. I’m tired now. Hope I don’t come across anything I need to take outside. I just want to be home all day (not even being out in the backyard). Sometimes I don’t think I get enough Vitamin D. Maybe tomorrow, but not today. Definitely not today.
Why am I so lethargic lately? I’ve also been getting the niggling feeling to revise something, but there’s nothing to study for. This is so routine. After the first few weeks of the holidays, I’m going to get bored so quickly. It’s imminent.
That’s the last time I touch a pen for the next 4 months
I came ridiculously early into uni today by catching the 6.30 train and arriving at close to 8, which left me plenty of time to walk around the Scientia and fitted in about 15 minutes of iLecture streaming of the Environmental Biotech lecture, which I was still very unfamiliar with. Turned out for the best, as it was included in the paper. Phew! Some poor guy’s calculator died at the start of the exam (how unfortunate!), but John gave him his extra, which was nice. We didn’t even end up needing the calculators. Stupid course. It was allocated to run from 8:45-12pm. Most people were out of there by 11. Totally underestimated us. It was a hard exam, I hope I can manage to scrape a pass with this. I also got my psych emotions report back = EPIC FAIL. Luckily, it was only out of 15%, and my finals are worth 65%, so hopefully, a miracle will happen.
View from under the big tree on Scientia Lawn
In digressing news, check out my tumblr page :O)
After the exam, I hung around with Mui til her last exam at 2. From then, I had relocated from the library lawn to the front of Mech Eng and to Scientia where I finally settled. It took me two hours. During that time, I wandered around the uni as well, because I was just so damn bored. I should have left the bags in the Scientia instead of hogging them around. I decided to borrow two books for some fun reading in the holidays: Chaos and Determinism: Turbulence as a Paradigm for Complex Systems Converging toward Final States and Control of Chaos in Nonlinear Circuits and Systems. The first book is a combination of science and philosophy, while the latter has more equations (which I really need to get a grasp of). Did you know that chaos exists in epileptiform bursting in the brain? They take randomness to a whole new level, I love it! I had also wanted to borrow a book about the placebo effect, but there didn’t seem to be any decent ones listed available in the catalogue. Grr.
Went to eat at Ramen Kan to celebrate our end of exams. Yay! I took an hour nap as soon as I got home. Got woken up by an SMS and my heart was thumping so quickly. I didn’t know why, but it was a little scary. It went away after a while, but shit, I thought it was going to come right outta my chest! I came to the conclusion that I must’ve been dehydrated and worn out from the past few weeks of non-stop studying. I can finally coax my body back to rehabilitation.
I am still burping up my dinner from more than six hours ago. Feraaal..
In my mind I’m drowning butterflies, broken dreams and alibis
I couldn’t afford a plane ticket to south-east Asia, so I decided to squat over a claypot for fifteen minutes crushing garlic cloves. Ahh… I’m there!
Well, it paid off in the end, because I had concocted yummy peanut sauce to accompany my summer Vietnamese rolls. I have been having them for the past two days. It was a nice alternative to eating out. I forget how lovely homemade food can be. I also had to stay home because I needed to cram for my biotech exam on Tuesday. It’s only Saturday today, but considering I will be out for most of tomorrow- Newtown Festival, I figured I could make the most out of today. I was trying to not write anything, because nothing gets in when I write. I spent the focus on writing instead of the info that’s actually there. I got through six lectures today. Woo!
I am so full. Blergh. Can’t wait for tomorrow. Hope the weather is going to be good. The weather reports have indicated that it would probably be raining this weekend, but it hasn’t rained all day today. In fact, in the middle of the afternoon, there was some considerable sunshine, and the sky looked pretty good as well. Hopefully, the clouds would have moved interstate or out to sea by tomorrow.
Ew, I’ve been sitting at my desk all day and I haven’t washed my hair in two. It’s so greasy, I could shape my bangs into a mohawk (without product!) Better get washing.
