Back to the reality

My mood of 'I still wanna lie on my bed for as long as I want' is abating and now it's more towards 'I wanna go back to Oxford!'

Pros

1) I have just had a last outing with friends in Brunei in 2010. Well, prob another one tomorrow morning if we're going to play squash. Anyway, there won't be any outing anymore here.

2) The thoughts of carrying boxes from a few hundred metres away and up the narrow staircases daunt me so much. I really wanna get it over asap and my life for the next nine months will be rescued from misery. Because I won't need to move out for my vac anymore-I signed a contract for the full nine months!!!

3) Sick of contacting my committee members via emails all the time. Back there, I could just fire a few texts or ring them up, or meeting. So much easier!!

4) Either the Oxford website or the Brunei internet sucks, or maybe both. Fuck it's insanely tormenting to access not only the 'intranet' but also the general public Oxford website. WTF! Back there, it's so much faster and easier. It's literally one-click away. Here, yes it's one-click away but it may take half an hour or more. Seriously, I'm not joking. I usually finish watching a show I've loaded while waiting. Or sometimes, 'The webpage can't be displayed' screen appears.

5) I wanna watch drama and the internet there is much faster duh. And my schedule is much more free than last year so I'll have more time to watch drama/anime wtv.

6) My course properly starts in 2nd yr so I really wanna see how it's like. You know, you're always ambitious before things start.

7) I wanna see the fresh bloods. hahhaha.

8) Alcohol.

Cons

1) Malas to cook and wake up in the morning.

2) Laundry is _l_

ANYWAY, this Summer is more productive than the two before.

1) I played lots of squash- exercise!

2) More outings maybe. Hari raya open houses!!!

3) The effect of jetlag subsided pretty quick.

4) I went to Penang and Sg.

What I ought to do but I didn't:

1) Kg. Ayer and Temburong.

2) Gym <-- damn it so much ahhahha.

3) A proper internship experience. Hey I did try but 'they' disappointed me.

Can't think of other stuffs. Anyway, cya guys and have a good start at your Unis. Safe flights for those who're leaving.

Two weeks to go

The traditional-ish black tie holds a classy modern fashion when worn together with the slim-fit white shirt! So extravagant in a way. The button of my one-really-nice white shirt from Zara got loosed a few days after I bought it. So pissed~

I want that grey jacket-blazer as well!

Croaking frogs. Please shaddup thanks.

I've woken up at an ungodly hour in a holiday- 715am. It was for the Oxbridge Roadshow at MD and I have to say that I really admire those who have brilliant presentation skills. Say the British High Commisioner and Her Excellency/His Excellency's wife (no idea the correct way to address her). Both of them are graduates from Cambridge. Their presentation took the form of a double act, really cool!

Many people, esp students, hate formal talks, dry and boring script-reading speeches. So I always love those kinds as if the presentators are talking about ideas that have just sprung to their minds- the extemporaneous speeches, but, they do have the script right in front of them. It's just the way you deliver the speech.

They can as well guide the listeners to the appropriate mood at certain parts of their speeches, which remain really interesting. Say with a change of the tone, the listeners do know 'he is serious now.' Awesome~

I wish I could be like them.. I did try but I think I failed lol. Quite often, I was like 'urmmm...'

Token of appreciation-pen and a trophy. Seriously, they don't have to give us trophies. Not sure if trophy is the right noun actually.

And yea, this then settles one of the tasks of being a Univ Ambassador (a scheme I have taken part in)- delivering a talk to a school so as to promote and encourage the students to apply to Oxford and providing necessary guidelines and helps to those who are thinking so.

I think I have signed up for and done way too many things to boost up my CV (well actually my primary aim is to meet more people so I can make more friends. Yeayea I know it sounds desperate) but then now I find it unnecessary lol. As if I can squeeze in so much stuff into a CV. But oh well, since I have get involved, might as well just do it till the very end ie till the half term of Michaelmas.

I seriously love the Oxford crest. It takes the shape of the crest of Uchiha Clan from Naruto. Well may be vice versa, since Oxford has existed way before Naruto.

Okay Ox crest looks much better than Uchiha's!

Youngest

My aunts came to Brunei last week and I had to offer them my room so I stayed at my eldest bro's room, sleeping on his bed, with him. The reason why my room was chosen? Coz I have a double bed. And I'm the youngest. Whatever the valid reasons my other siblings gave. The main reason is I'm the youngest.

Since young, I've always been sacrificed, ok not to that extent, but told to do this n that, whenever no one else wanna do it. I don't mind since when I was growing, I was an annoying crybie and money-sucking dependent being. And the elder ones took care of me.

What I'm annoyed is whenever I go around, the adults (uncles and aunties), upon knowing I'm the youngest one, will say 'Oh youngest! Manja ni. I bet you get everything you want!' I smiled and gave them a literal 'haha', thinking 'Fuck off old man/lady! Shut your bloody mouth up when you dunno anything and stop stereotyping the youngest child for god sake.'

Ok lah, exaggerate again, but I do get very very pissed.

Hahah I still remember I always spent minimal amount of money since young so now my parents urge me to spend more money. And also my mum gave me $50 one day during the MS time cz she thought I didn't wanna spend my money on lunch and hence I was so thin. Hell no. I didn't eat much coz I couldn't eat quickly that time and the lunch break was only half an hour long.

Now my aunt came back from Limbang together with my one cuz, and they're staying in my room. I stayed in my elder bro's room (single bed) yesterday night cz he went to KK. Now he's back I'll move to my eldest bro's room again.

Faint

Who's up for a full medical check-up sometimes before we go back? I'm interested in having a blood test only though. Just wanna check out if my blood cells count, cholesterol level, [Hb] (ie concentration of haemoglobin), iron, platelets, etc comply to my healthy appearance!

I hope I don't have hypotension (low blood pressure) nor high cholesterol. You nvr know. I have a sphygmomanometer in my hse and I was tested having a hypotension at that time and it freaked me out. I swore it's because everyone in my family was so worried of hypertension (they get fat easily unlike me the odd one out) that we have been eating healthy food (and I've been eating healthy food for nearly all my life, unlike them, again) so my blood pressure was lower than norm.

And frequently I also find myself close to fainting, or maybe not since I've never fainted and hence I don't know how it feels when you're abt to faint. Maybe I'm just tired. But fainting is a symptom of low blood pressure since not enough blood is reaching your brain and thus the glucose and oxygen.

I tested myself again using another sphygmomanometer in Mubin's hse. I'm normal. Speaking of paranoia.

And you knw, thin people could get cardiac problems too. Thin doesn't imply low cholesterol level and hence I'm worried.

But then, we need to fast beforehand. Urghhh, I think I'll faint after the blood is taken out from my body.

ps Do you know the IV fluid contains sodium lactate? Amuses me for lactate being used as the energy source here. And no, lactate is different from lactose.

Research Centre (?)

I've told my friends that it's in fact not a research centre. The dept/ unit I'm working at is a Vet Lab to check for the presence of bacteria and drug in meats, as well as the health of animals through regular blood check.

Monday boring. Tue dead boring though the thrill that happened (nothing to do with the procedures) excited the day a little bit. Wed I was half-dead. That's when I met these few people: Owen, Chee, Dayangku and Shirah. And they told me to go to the lab they're working at i.e. drug residue lab on the next Mon. Thur Sultan's bday. Sat Big makan for some reason hence I didn't go.

Monday again. In the morning, I spent my time with a lady named Surinah doing ELISA and she allowed me to do some pipetting. Then in the afternoon and Tue, I spent my time at drug residue. It was insanely awesome.

You know lab is actually very boring. Pipette 50 microlitres of this solution into this tube. Add the sample. Centrifudge it for 10 min. Incubate it for 1 hr. Cool it for 10 min. Add this and that and put it into a machine and take the readings then analyse it. Or pipette some microlitres of this into some microlitres of that then into it, add some microlitres of this bacteria solution. Vortex it. Swipe it on the agar. Incubate it for a few hrs. Count the colony or manipulate the colony with further pipetting experiments.

Same as all other jobs in the world, the tasks are awfully repetitive and hence the tormenting boredom. So the best lab is one that has enough work for you to do so you don't have to stare into the space or the machine in front of you AND also an awesome crew!! I have had that experience in that drug residue lab.

Shirah is the permanent staff of the lab. Chee and Dayangku are permanent staffs but still on a rotation basis till the 'boss' fixes them into one lab, because they are new. Owen belongs to the Halal and since they, whoever they are, are still building the lab, those so-called Halal people have to observe and help out in the labs here. These four people just cracked me up so badly.

Because of them, I was thinking of continuing working there for the rest of the week, which I'm supposed to do so but then after some thoughts, I then told the boss that I would like to leave today for good. They are working graduates who are earning money and I'm still a first year and I'll leave this place at the end of this week anyway. They will part their ways in a few weeks time too due to the rotation basis and they're well aware of that. A friendship that won't last. Why bother sacrificing my holiday?

But I've to tell you that these two days have been my greatest lab experience ever. I just kept on laughing!! In Oxford, labs were just urghh. Every second counts or you will get out of the lab after six hrs instead of four. Everyone, well most people, works as fast as possible and it's a huge pressure on us. We brought our tubes/plates/apparatus around the lab as quick as our legs could carry us without bumping onto someone doing the same thing. And the worst thing was seeing half of the lab gone and you.were.still.there.

You know, it's really fun to spend time with normal people who don't care about the truth behind everything-Theology, Science, Philosophy, Economics etc. Normal people who do work for the sake of doing it and have a laugh while doing it due to whatsoever reason. Something funny that has happened in the family, some stupid error, some office gossips. Gosh, I miss my old life that I've lost so so long ago, back when I'm still a normal boy.

I really hope I'll be working in a jolly lab like this, but it's incredibly rare I've to say. Fingers crossed.

'Kau syaitan!'

'Kau antu puchong!'

LOL. I nearly ROFLMAO.

Btw, I met a few attachers and had a few conversations with them, I felt bad for not knowing urm, many stuffs.

'So what're you doing now?'

'ND'

'What?'

'ND'

'???'

'National Diploma.'

'So what course are you doing?'

'Science.'

'In...'

'... Science.'

It's raining

Towards the end of my first academic year in Oxford, the rain was no more a drizzle and I told myself, 'Wow I haven't experienced such a heavy rainfall for long. It's just like Brunei.'

No it's not. Nowhere near the magnitude of the downpour here. JC!

Have been playing squash for three mornings in a row. Many people questioned why we played squash at such an ungodly hour-10am. I wonder that too... According to Chern, this is so that we won't waste our afternoon.

Hh bought me a grand piano ligo from JPN. So awesome!! And I've built it up- it looks awesome. Black and white and yellow and a transparent layer underneath making it all so classy!! Now only if I could upload the picture. Internet connection here sucks.

Words are evolving. Apparently the word 'evolvability' exists, even though I couldn't find it in my Macbook dictionary.

My first casual book in a year

Cutting for Stone is the title of a book I read recently. To be honest, it started off pretty plain and described the background of each character too detailed to my likings. However, I did not stop reading. And I'm glad of it.

It's a big book that tells the life stories of many characters who crossed the paths of each other in all different ways at different environments across two generations. Genre of The Kite Runner but I like this book more. Perhaps I still couldn't get out of the book and hence my fondness for it at this moment. The author, Abraham Verghese, is too cruel though. Absolutely heart-rending.( I actually prefer it to be less tragic at one point).

Forbidden love, family secrets and a country in turmoil

Go fucking read it. You guys will love it so so so much!!! I can lend it to you!

my maths tutor

Well he is in fact a physical chemistry tutor but he gives maths tutes to we humble biochemists. Anyway this is what he said.

'Maths is beautiful. Pretty. Like a lady. Unlike that woman. What's her name? Gaga? Gaga something?

'It's Lady Gaga.'

WHAT LADY? She's not a lady! It's the last thing she'll be. God! Did you see her with the *motions describing some stuffs on her shoulders*... It's like she's carrying a chair on her shoulders! Good God! LADY!?

Quotes

'If you are not going to talk much in this enzyme class, I'm sure this will last for two hours, which is of not particular interest to me as well because I have enzymes growing upstairs.'

'I have given up in procrastination. Whatever it means...'

Cnt believe I finally have free days to do catching up. Behind what I've planned but pretty productive.

Only one lecture tomorrow, but cnt be bothered to go cz it's hell boring. Multicellular life. A common question in the prelims but even if it comes out, I won't do it. I'm sure I won't score high.

No labs tomorrow, cnt believe this. I think they want us to spend time doing the effing poster abt any lab session we've worked through so far. And a lecture was cancelled just nw cz the lecturer couldnt make his series of lectures this term. Thus these free thur and fri (except for the one lecture but who cares).

Will blog abt cny in london and jimmy choo soon. Yes, I met him and took a photo with him!!!! Oh, I love Oxford so much.

birds

Didn't go to the 9am lecture cz I knw it's a useless one. Txtbook is far more helpful. Sunlight shining through my curtain, good day. Took a shower and simply put on a t shirt and a hoody and off to my 10am lecture. Cooling breeze cz I felt hot after a shower.

Then when I walked bck, it's quite cold. Tolerable though. Then all of the sudden, BANG!!!! All the snow just poured down. In 10 min, the snow accumulated. Then the rate of snowing decreased. When I thought it's gonna be over soon, the snow storm occurred. Such a heavy snow, yoi!!!!

But when I looked out of my window, the two fat birds that resided on the tree were still there, sitting on the branch. Not in a nest. I think they were desperately clinging onto the branch. So sad. I felt like asking them to come in my room. lolol. But seriously, y didn't they just fly to somewhere warmer, forgot the term used.

anywhere, yeah, everything is pure white out there as no1 has stepped on the snow yet. Luckily it snowed at the lunch time when I was cooking, rather than when I was walking bck from lecture or will be walking to an organic chem tut.

Oh, I can't bear setting my eyes on those birds. I hope they don't freeze.

I don't think you can see the birds.

Bright sunlight again now... wth. The snow's going to melt soon.

groceries

If you look at the allergy advice of quite many products such as biscuits from sainsbury, it's printed 'Not suitable for milk or soya allergy sufferers due to the methods used in the manufacture of this product.'

Can someone kindly explain this sentence to me? Not that I'm expecting any one of you to answer this que. lol.

evil

hahaha, I don't think I should be a statistician in diseases. I had a question that provides data for the haemoglobin levels in individuals infected by malaria and non-infected one; there should be significant differences. Then they want us to outline additional experiments to differentiate between the hypotheses 'infection by malarial parasites might reduce haemoglobin levels in the blood' and 'individuals with low haemoglobin levels may be susceptible to malarial infection'.

So without thinking much, I wrote: Obtain a sample of healthy individuals and measure their haemoglobin level. Then infect them with malarial parasite and measure haemoglobin level again and do a significance test. If it's significant, then it shows the first hypothesis.

For 2nd hypothesis, obtain a sample of individuals with low Hb levels and infect them with the parasite. Repeat with healthy individuals as control. Bla3.

Then after that, I was thinking, 'But the question wants an additional experiment meaning it's a follow-up experiment from the data provided already, and won't these be too evil and notorious...' HAHAHA, only then I realised I should have written 'Treat the infected individuals from the previous experiment and measure their Hb level to see if there's any significant difference.'

I do knw it's very bio n stats so not very understandable but basically I should have treated infected ppl rather than infecting healthy ppl to ans the que. LOL, and my first thought is the latter one. I'm just effing dangerous.

lovely day

Sunshine!!! Even though it's cold but still, it's the Sun. lol. But I'm stuck in the lecture room having a training programme for Univ Ambassador Scheme. Basically, it's just a scheme to improve the access of Univ.

Ran through stuffs like procedures to hold events in Univ and to visit schools bla3. Then 15 min group activity to come up with an access event and talked abt it briefly. And the tedious CRB check again.

pffft, I've done it when I registered volunteering at the musuem, but it's not as tedious as this, which makes me kinda worried if the museum admin has actually done my CRB. Cz this time, I need to fill in various forms and provide different kinds of documents. And last time, all I need to do is providing contact details of two referees.

Not to mention I lost my CV file, in which I kept my birth cert and O lvl cert all those ultimately important documents. cb. Fking seriously need to find a time to go back to shr school to find if it's left there man.

breakdown

yoi... So many people are breaking down at this period of time. So sad... My friend had just cried in a tute, and it's totally acceptable considering that kind of pressure our tutor put on her. Then heard from my friend who overheard his neighbour skyping with his gf, who is from univ too. And his gf totally broke down, to the extent that our international counsellor came to her room and had a chat with her.

Then an engineer's having a one week break coz our senior tutor gave him this break to think things over again. errrrrrr, sounds effing scary.

And I kasian the lawyers and PPP-ist the most loh. They don't even have time to break down cz their exams will take place at the end of this term. I've only seen my lawyer friend once so far even though she's just living at the next staircase. Must be cracking books like hell.

Then heard many sporeans like feeling depressed and evrything too. It must be winter. lol.

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gosh.. Questions like 'Why am I learning this?' have deepened my thought of changing my course lohhh. esp when so many ppl have dropped biochem already. Then some of my friends are feeling damn depressed (non-biochemist). But I'll feel damn guilty towards my tutor so yeah, not an option!! But seriously urrrghhh, my gawt!

Stupid collections and I thought I'll get good marks in MCB. I think I've written a perfect essay for one que and I only gt 80%, with no comments whatsoever. WHAT THE F***!? I thought my that essay would have pulled my average really high but apparently it did not. And all other essays were like 65, 60...

Bs! I wrote more than what the lecturers taught us man! Seriously don't know where the marking points are.

Non-essay science courses are much simpler in this sense; I don't mean much easier, just simpler. Cz when u ans the que right, then u gt the marks. As simple as that. This MCB, I don't even know what I should write, how much should I write, and I need to consider the time taken to write the essay. Then I gt a mark that I don't deserve.

Going to have a word with my tutor... So pissed off!!!!!!!

Btw, fuck biophysical chemistry. lol.

Bloody Monday

Found this manga a couple of days ago and I finished reading it like in 2-3 days. Effing awesome and I just couldn't stop myself even though I did have works to do. It's pretty much the same, or maybe should I say exactly the same, as DN.

I think it should obtain some kind of attention like DN has. Personally, it's better than Liar Game, another manga with the same genre. The reason might be the plot of Bloody Monday revolves around a hacker and a deadly genetically-engineered virus, which is used as a biological weapon.

Just found out that S2 has begun 3 mths ago and it's made into a drama. Shyt, and I thought I could start doing my works now...

ps I bought a carton of milk but I left it at the window so it could get 'refrigerated' but apparently it didn't work. It had cuddled but I didn't mind so I drank it, just like the usual disgusting me. And now, the taste has turned into that of a cheese. Yes, it's fermented... HAHHA, I had to give it up now.

HT 10

I'm supposed to be in an MCB (main module) lecture but but but, here I'm staying in my room, drinking a cup of milk (lol, anti-caffeine), reading a book I've just borrowed from the Radcliffe Science Library- 'Life's Origin'.

And why's that? I woke up at 830, had a breakfast -two slices of bread with nutella spread-, brushed my teeth and cleaned my face and fuck... it was 848am. It usually took me 10-15 min to walk/run to the lecture and this lecture room I'm supposed to go is a small one, so the late ones had to squeezed in or sit on the staircase or simply on the floor.

But I don't mind, so ignoring the fact that I haven't cleansed my intestine, which is really displeasing for me, I put on my jacket. When I got out of my building, oh great, it's raining, sort of heavily. So... I went back up my room! :D

Well, the lecturer did say this set of lectures is well explained and laid out in many biochemistry textbooks, which is the reason he doesn't give us any handouts. Fine, it's the reason for me not attending your lectures too!!

That's the difference between A level and Uni life. Love it.

Done

I.Am.Done. I thought my exam started at 915 at the exam school like yesterday but apparently it started at 930am at 90HS Lecture Room. Palui, made me rushed like what and still ended up one of the earliest. cb.

Maths ppr. Pretty easy. A level F.Maths is much much much harder.

First day of collections

Okay, freaky, it seems like the whole Oxford has entered a battle mode. A few colleges or courses have their collections in the exam school. This was the second time I entered it. Evryone gathered at the entrance hall, waiting for someone to announce through the microphone that permitted our entry now. Univ had their collections in the Southside Room. So weird that there were portraits of kings of various countries hanging on the wall, like Prussian king. I just found it odd.

Bangang ahhh the whole procedures for biochemists. First, our scripts and tutor were not there so we sat on the bench, looking at the others staring at the front page of their collection pprs. Thinking we wouldn't have our collections, damn it, the academic officer of Univ then brought in the collections que ppr.

Well, it went better than I expected. I was not too worried by organic chem to begin with and the difficulty of the ppr was as I expected. So yeah, no big deal. Couldn't solve a few questions but wtv.

Then the ppr should last for 2 hrs, and it was printed so on the front page. However, after two hours, he didnt announce 1st yr biochemists to stop writing. After a few minutes only then my mate and I raised our hands. And the chief examiner(?) who looked so young (probably just a tutor) said he was not notified. Then mcm apakan, but in the end, he let us go. lol. He's like so funny, playing his mobile game, wearing a 'nike look-alike' hoody, which he put his gown over. After playing his mobile game, he then read a book. And a few chunks of his hair stood up at the back.

In the afternoon, a hardcore killer MCB 3 hrs paper. Shyt, I was writing at my top speed for properly three hours. Well minus a few minutes here and there to think a little bit. But you guys who know how quick I write will then know how much I've written. Definitely more than 20 pages, with the aid of diagrams though.

As I said, I was targeting questions and three of them came up. I reviewed one essay that I had done before, like an hour before the collection and it was splitted into two essays in the collection. Thank god!!! So freaking lucky. I was expecting some good marks here coz of the amount of details I've included. Come on, 20 pages of scientific essays.

In the end, my handwriting just went so horribly ugly and I didn't even know what I was writing anymore. And my sentences began to start with 'while', 'because' etc, which didn't freaking make sense. Then when I realised that, I had to cancel them while telling myself, 'WTF am I doing?'

Most ppl were done but I'm not. Maths paper tomorrow, should be easy. Not aiming for full marks so yeah, couldn't be bothered to revise.

ps one third yr wore full sub-fusc. So malu.

pps i left my duvet and pillow over the vac and now they went missing. presumably kept by the scout (cleaner in a rude way) who I haven't seen yet. Well, the coldness helps waking me up so I don't mind.

Collections

OH MY GOD, i'll be either really screwed and achieved quite a good result coz i'm targeting questions for MCB module. If the que I have studied do come up, the only challenge present is' Can I write five freaking essays in three hrs?'

The problem is not the understanding part but the memorising part. gosh!!

I tot i'll need to wear full sub-fusc but it turns out to be the gown only over casual clothes. phew~ thank god my friends told me or I will be overdressed, like a retard.

Morning, 2 hr organic chem, afternoon, 3 hr MCB. Sat morning 3 hr Maths.

I'm supposed to be studying more essays in case the one I read won't come up, choi choi choi touchwood, but yeah, cn't be bothered anymore.

Wish me luck. Whoever ur! So freaking paranoid now.

torrents

Oh I'm so glad that I'm here. Jay Sean, Rihanna, Chris Brown, Beyonce, Kesha, Cheryl Cole...

Btw Jay Sean's Down has a 'candle light remix'. And it's so good!!! Much slower and soothing.

Reminders

-Boxing day at Westfield: Pepe jeans' jeans, Zara black shirt, Ted Baker boxer and socks, EA boxer.

-Madrid: Sol, flamingo, royal palace, museum, real madrid, 14th century chapel, egypt thingy, nights in the hostel, a bath, food and more food. Pic up on fb. Waiting for others to post theirs up.

-Celebrated 2010 in a chinese restaurant with chinese loads. A well mixed of colours. lol. Didn't regret it cz of the scary rumour and the duh omg crowds.

-Drinking game at vien's. Witnessed something.

-Ikea to buy cooking utensils. Yes, gonna start cooking using my rice cooker or maybe the pans etc if I bother to go to the next building to use its kitchen.

-Slept at chern's place cz we went to visit shin at vien's place. So happy cz they said I looked ~10kg heavier than my actual mass. Ohohohohoho, couldn't suppress my smile for so long. They said that my bone looked dense so I looked heavy.

-Leicester nw. Staying over in the hse of mubin, mal, fai, mimi. Enjoying their ultra-fast virgin wireless and TV. Downloaded many songs and mv. Snowing nw btw. And the food here is damn damn damn damn cheap like totally unbelievable. So jealous like fuck.

ps transport in london is damn expensive nw. Wanna get an ISIC for free bus rides. That will save so much money.

pps metabolism outburst. My appetite increased like shit again. Hate it so much. My money has all wasted to nothing, like seriously nothing. Unless u wanna talk abt carbon and nitrogen cycles.

ppps one jr! found someone to punt for me next yr.

Welcome to the teeniesss

The sat of 0th week, Naughties bop!!! (Nt quite sure of the date lol) Wheeeeeyyy, let's start the Hilary term submerged in alcohol and dance music with the univities. I've checked my timetable, well, it's almost the same as before somehow. More prac, but less 9am lectures, which make me very happy. I'll rather you guys make me work to an inch of my life in the afternoon than waking up to a 9am lecture.

But before the bop, collections. oh gosh, I'm so underprepared esp MCB. There're just too many facts to remember and to put (some of) them in the form of five essays in three hours time is a pain in the ass.

All the activities that I've signed up for will start next term too. kinda looking forwards to it. Charity events, international students activities, access campaigns, volunteering bla3. 2010 will start off horrendously busy but I'm sure it will be damn productive and very possibly the best eight weeks in my life.

Oxford, I love you! Except for the fact that it's so ex.

ps chern n I are wondering if it is actually a new decade cz we think new decade should start at 2011, no? wtv, i'll go with the flow. out the naughty and come the teeny.