my source of amusement this evening

www.freerice.com

Found this through Dawn, and yeah! it's addictive. Not to mention that it's going to feed people... I like feeding people, how could I pass this one up?

gaps in my memory? hopefully not!

I'd better fill in some gaps here.... about all that's happened since the last time I blogged. But first... HOME!!!! so very happy to be home, to be sleeping on a nice firm mattress every night, to have the vegetables and soup I was craving. (no fish yet though)

So... gap number 1: Valete.
The last formal dinner of the year to send graduates and leavers off. Speeches were made, awards presented, photos taken... and there was a (very well-made) video to summarise the whole year. But the dancing was half-hearted most of the time, I guess we were all just too stressed about the exams to really enjoy ourselves.

Taken just after mass

we robbed the guys of their jackets... I wore (drowned in?) Don's.

oh no! what shall I do?

gap 2: studying (skiving?), also known as camping in various libraries. My room is definitely not a good place to study... I just keep falling asleep at random intervals. All I have to do is sit down and my head will hit the table. All that camping had better pay off.

gap 3: birthdays!!! Andrew, Persis, me, Char... Good breaks from studying! (think we'd have gone crazy if not for those little parties) For Andrew's, everyone went to his back door to surprise him... the poor guy got un-extinguishable (I know that's not a word) candles *evil laugh*. Persis got the elaborate one... first her bed scattered with roses and placed in a Jacaranda tree, then a mini-celebration with ONE slice of cheesecake and an impromptu mariachi band comprising of whoever was in the library at that time, dinner out, and finally a big celebration in H block. Char's was the day before our flight home, so we had the usual JCR party, though everyone was really quite tired and dead from packing and dinner and shopping. Her fight with Cass over their slippers was so funny... so aggressive! And Aaron got drunk (on cocktails and Tequila, I'm told) on his birthday and gave me a drunken phone call that night (talk about drunk dialing...). Yiying wouldn't reveal his birthday until the day after, the sneaky fellow.

I share my birthday with Nadia!!! We MUST go out soon ok... to make up for the studying we had to do that day. I got my first ever ice cream cake... ...thank you Bonbon! Now I know why you were asking me about my three favourite flavours: to actually make the cake!!! Ahh... a cake that I can eat. It made me impossibly full and soporific though. so very grateful and thankful. *hugs all around* and I got a pretty sparkler too! Thank you Char for the pretty comb and ring and earrings, I'll need to get earholes/ change the earrings to clip-ons. Thanks to everyone for coming... really made me feel like a little kid. A happy little kid!

Sad... Bon's going to Melbourne.................. *sulk*
I'm glad you liked your card... did Ericius sign it in the end? I'm going to miss Bonbon... silly rain, made us miss our sunrise. I would have gone for supper with you guys but I really needed to sleep. Not that I actually slept in the end. Made up for it by napping on the flight, and sleeping for 12h when I got home.

ah... home... I really don't like the heat! And I'm already starting to be busy, not that I mind. KTV on Thursday! whee~

Just to wrap up.. jacarandas! pretty purple flowers for YY!

one more

one more paper to go! 20 more hours, and I'm free. In 24h time, I'll be in Northbridge, getting ice cream.

I think I've lost the study mood though. But no, I can't sacrifice tomorrow's lab. I've got a ton of updates but they'll just have to wait. Time to be studious again!