New Fave Songs.

Coz youtube has oddly disabled all embedding for this song, I shall post the link up (:

Boyzone – Better

And also, this song (:

The first day of Chinese New Year;

You really never know how much some things mean to you, until you don’t have them next to you.

It’s the first Chinese New Year away, and although I say that I don’t really miss home, it’s today that really struck me that I do, a lot.

Been quite a recluse today, hiding at home. Tired also, but that wasn’t the whole thing. I wanted to hibernate the night away, doing my work.

I’d feel better in a couple of days. I know I will. But need some time to angst it all out.

Jurisprudence strewn over the table. Writing out practice essays. Watching anime at the same time to keep my mind off the monotonous black words. It’s just like writing for the sake of writing. Like writing will make me feel more comfortable that I won’t flake out during the exam when I know I’ve got most of the facts down pat in my head.

It’s so funny, how we try to comfort ourselves. It’s always like, Oh wells, don’t worry about this seminar. I’m sure if I don’t finish this chapter, I will at the end. And the next thing you know, you’re 6 chapters behind and knee- deep in shit that you can’t dig out of.

I angst.

Anyways, just got new tights for poland. That’s going to keep me warm and cuddly whilst I trudge through god knows what. Hopefully it won’t sleet there. snow or frost over. As pretty as it is, it really isn’t very practical, especially if you’re trying to walk without breaking your ankle cleanly into half or get to a class that you should have been in 10 minutes ago. And a pair of new ear mufflers, to prevent my ears from dropping off in the cold too.

I should not blog till I get happier.

I feel like I’m radiating negative energies through the cyberworld to whomever reads this. UGHS.

SHIET!!!

Damn it,

I’m trying to watch a show (Zodiac, btw), and my firefox browser KEEPS CLOSING ON ME. It’s so irritating. And considering the fact that Tudou loads at an abysmally slow rate, I’m already at the end of my limit in waiting for the movie to loads.

ARGH DAMMIT.

I just realized;

That my room is full of dried fruits.

I’ve got a pack of Garibaldi (biscuits with pressed raisins in the middle), a pack of fig rolls, a packet of dried cranberries, a packet of prunes, and a pack of granola with dried tropical fruits.

HMM. where did I get all these. HMMS. haha.

OKAY EU TMR.

GANBATTE ME. -waves a pompom whilst cramming cases in furiously-

And fredflare.com is the love (:

BLAH.

Hair dropping like mad, and curling in all fucking directions. SHIT MAN.
Tmr I will go buy a hair straightener, and a water filter. it’s the shitty water here. I tell you. Must be it. ARGH.

I think right;

Guys ah, quite poor thing leh.

(This is in a Equity and Trust context)

So, here’s a piece of advice, Never say…

“What’s mine is always yours, darling.”

Us females can sue half your pants off. Literally. Or well, half the monetary value of all your belongings(including your pants). Okay, that’s a bit too farfetched, but that’s the gist. HAHA.

today;

I called home and talked to my grandmother, and she said to me

“Wah, you not coming back for Chinese New Year. Cannot eat my mian xian”

She’s so “nice”, but nevertheless, I love her to bits.

Hopelessly missing home. Mei send the pouch soon!! I think mum wants to send new year goodies. Send inside together or something. heh. pack in nice munchies for me!

Owl City – On the Wing

” Breathe and I’ll carry you away into the velvet sky
And we’ll stir the stars around and watch them fall away
Into the Hudson Bay and plummet out of sight and sound
The open summer breeze will sweep you through the hills
Where I live in the Alpine heights
Below the northern lights I spend my coldest nights alone awake
And thinking of the weekend we were in love “

yayness.

After finishing my notes for Pornography, and Torture, I am done with my note- making! And after this, I can concentrate on stuffing all the knowledge in my mind. STUFF STUFFFFF.

Yesterday’s wind was nuts, absolutely CRAZY.

And I woke up at 10 am, bumbled online for a bit, wore my jacket, and went back to bed. It was so cold, and so gloomy. I is sad. No sun.

What a bright sunny day

… too bad I wasn’t out and about…

Why, You Ask.

I was at home, having a lovely rendezvous with Mr EU, and his lovely sidekicks, Craig and de Burca!

(Everyone, please welcome them onto this lovely stage)

(Applause, please)

I have conquered Chapters 14 and 15 on the Review of Legality, and in a spat of word processing blunders, I accidentally saved my notes for Chapter 15 over my note beginnings for Chapter 14. And with a click of the “Save” button, I have banished 2 pages of notes into the depths of my computerizes abyss, never to be found again.

Oh, don’t I dramatize everything so much? (cue sweet endearing smile whilst stroking EU text lovingly)

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OH, how I hate EU so. I want to like you, but you’re so dry, and you lack a sense of humour. At least Jurisprudence has the lovely curves of yoghurt dipped muesli bars. You’re just like the dry, bland, and absolutely tasteless wheat biscuits. UGH.

YOU WEETABIX.

pfft

in my Euthansia reading:

“…the cosmic greatness of the sanctity of human life….”

bugger.

I felt like a shaman after reading that.

Anyways, my brain is fried. Like char kway teow.

HEE HEE

OMG I was looking at Bengawan Solo’s Cookie Catalogue, and I was like SHIT I WANT MINI SHRIMP ROLLS. I LOVE THOSE. ah. This would be just about the time we start buying CNY goodies, and by the time CNY rolls around, it will ALL BE GONE. haha.
Oh wells.

and just had a 4 hour marathon of pure note making and studying. I want to dieeee.

A belated post/Holiday Greetings/Whatever else that I should type up.

So, yes. This will be a long one, considering the fact that I have loads to say!

Bruxelles -

20th Dec, headed to Bruxelles for two nights. It was a nice town, didn’t even take a single public transport (saved loads, I must say) Took the bus from Meadowhall to Victoria Coach Station in London, headed for the Tube to St Pancras, and took the Eurostar train to Bruxelles Gare Midi Station, and reached in the middle of the night to the land of waffles and Tintin, and Smurfs!

Random comic Graffitti in the City Centre

Beautiful Belgian Lace (which I totally forgot to go and buy. Was telling myself that I want to get a bookmark or something as a souvenir, and totally forgot. gee)

Warm Belgian Waffles, drenched with chocolate, caramel or apple sauce of your liking, and sprinkled with a generous snow shower of icing sugar, mm!

And Godiva, which I didn’t dare step into lest I go nuts and spend my entire spending budget on chocolates in the shops. They were everywhere though, but on the other hand, Belgium is the land of chocolates. I did have some good ones tho

At Rue de Brocheres, the street of Seafood Restaurants. Belgium has a lot of seafood on its menu, with the sea just a couple hours away

The famous Moules Frittes with a white wine sauce. We chose this for something light and savoury. Came stewed in chopped parsley and celery, with succulent mussels, and that deep winey sauce.

Say Hello to Monsieur Tintin and his dog, Snowy! And the two muddlesome, clumsy detectives (:

On the way to Antwerp from Bruxelles, and this was the train before our train pulled into the Station. The trains are quite “decorated”, I must say!

Got off at Antwerpen Centrale Station, and took a really long walk down a seeminly never ending street to our hotel, Hotel Rubens Hof, a 150 year old remodelled hotel which is a memoir to the existence of Rubens, an artiste which made it big in Belgium.

And more of those delectable pralines, and chocolatey babies! (:

On the tram towards the historical centre of Antwerp, we were kind of too lazy to walk there. It would have been at least a 40 minute walk, and been a really long one. 0_0 Antwerp has a lot of little trams buzzing everywhere, especially in the city centre. And they’re quite cute haha. like little buggies.

At Grote Place, Antwerp.

Random Broadwalk, somewhere in Antwerp. Just next to the River Schole.

Kind of lost my mood to take pictures when I was in Antwerp, coz I fell horribly sick as you would have already gathered from the past few posts. But things are getting better, only a niggling cough left. haha.

So yea, took the train back to Bruxelles after two nights in Antwerp, and got off at the same stop as our Eurostar departures, and headed for our train after a quick bite at the Station. Sue kind of misplaced her railcard and our tickets back to Sheffield from London in Belgium, and we had no idea where they were. So we were hoping that the rail people would be able to print out our tickets again. But turns out that THEY WOULD NOT. So it was kind of a mad rush after getting back to London. From St Pancras, we went to Kings Cross to try to get a reprint, and they won’t let us. So after, it was a mad rush down to Victoria Coach Station to try to catch a coach back to Sheffers, but turns out all seats were booked. And we had to rush back down to Kings Cross to catch the train back, which incidentally was the last one back to anywhere near Sheffield. We got on the tube at Victoria at 8 10, train was to leave at 8 27. Got to the counter, and said 3 tickets to sheffield, and the guy only said one thing, ‘No time. Buy your tickets on board, RUN! Platform 6″. And yes, we made a mad dash to Platform 6, and literally piled onto the train. It was MENTAL. MEEENTAL. AND CRAZY. Took the train which ended in Doncaster, and after RAN for our connecting train to Sheffield. And there was a weird guy on the train next to us. Freaky shit.I was so SO SO glad to be back in Sheffield, I tell you. Never felt better to be home.

And so, Christmas eve ended, and Christmas came along, with me reluctantly peeling myself off my bed. Shoved the turkey all marinated and stuffed into the oven, and bumbled the night away. It was a good dinner, that I must admit.

Mah Turkey (: With sage and onion stuffing

And so, Christmas came, and left. And New Years just round the corner. Had dinner at this Chinese Buffet place, with Ash, Ivor, Adrian, Sue and Flor. Walked there in the bleeding cold night, and swathed in a thick mist. Had dinner, and went back home, with house politics coming at us left right centre. But well. I DON’T BLOODY CARE, HEH.

So yes, people came. I have no idea how much liquor was consumed that night, I THINK it was something like 12 bottles of hard liquor, like everyone randomly brought about 3 bottles each. Can’t even remember what were there last night, I think, bottles upon bottles of Russian vodka, Smirnoffs, Baileys (MMMM), and I have no idea what else. And beer. Loads of beer. People got drunk, people transformed into emo lumps after drinking. People fell down stairs, knocked heads, went out cold, and people lost their shoes somewhere in the mess. I had one fall asleep on my bed, whilst telling me something real emo, and hugging my bear for emotional comfort. What a night! Crazy. Me and sue have sworn off alcohol. I kind of got screwed up by this thing, this horrible concoction called Aftershock. Which is bad. I never want to taste anything alcoholic after the last Aftershock incident. EURGH. I refused to drink, coz I think I needed to remain sober. So yea. Sue did the drinking for me. =/ But at least everyone left, without puddles of puke to settle (THANK FREAKING GOD). I kept plying everyone with chocolates to make them have some food in their system to offset the alcohol a bit. If not, haha. good game.

So yea, that wraps up my 2008, and now, it’s already 2009. Time seriously flies. (and I will get back to studying soon). Here’s to a good year once again, and to all of you guys, Happy New Year!