Blogging at 10 in the morning while downing a cup of tropical fruit juice on a seemingly empty stomach doesn't seem like a good idea. House all quiet, a warm shower needed.

I hate this time of the year, the endless mugging. What's worse is that I haven't been mugging as hard as last year which means I'll be really screwed. Need to cover 3 modules in 11 days. 1 out of which I skipped half the classes. Another 1 which I zoned out in about 1/4 of the classes. And the final one which I attended all classes but still had no idea half the time what my favourite lecturer was talking about.

And so I leave you to ponder my fate. Hot shower is very necessary now along with a clean change of clothes. Maybe the library later. =)

p/s: A couple of Italy pictures..

In Milan, Sforza Angelli or the Italian equivalent of Castle Something. The dude is an American tourist who came here with a group and they're studying in the University of Manchester and they also didn't know where my uni is. =.= All the yummeh cakes and pastries that I wished I sampled in Milan.
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I had a wake-up call just the other night.

I lay in bed unable to sleep, unable to cry with frustration on how I let things slide, how my behaviour changed. I foresaw the same mistakes that I made coming back to haunt me. I couldn't believe how irresponsible I was. Till reality hit me in the face.

Do I keep needing my mistakes to happen again before I'll remember and learn from the past?

I was talking to someone and he said, "If you got to where you are today without your heart in it and by just skating by, imagine how far you could have gone if you put the effort in."

That was another wake-up call that I brushed aside. Stupid of me, really.
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My eyes were itchy, the reflex to rub it away overtook my sensibilities. The very instant my hand came into contact with my right eyeball, the words "Oh shit!" flashed into my mind.

Sugarshootshit!

Run to the bathroom to wash hands and left eyeball which is thankfully not red yet. How the heck could I have been so careless after numerous warnings not to touch the eyes and to disinfect/dispose of anything that came into contact with it?!

Never having conjunctivitis before, I didn't even realise my eye was red till my housemate pointed it out. This was the punishment for rubbing my eyes with contacts on, the karma for not disposing of expired lenses. The comeback for not heeding stern advice and dark looks accompanied by mutterings when I cheekily rubbed my eyeballs into my sockets. Also possibly nature's way of paying me back for the countless times I sarcastically rolled my eyes at everyone.

I have been duly frightened by gruesome pictures of conjunctivitis victims from wikipedia. I will try to stop rubbing my eyes and throw away my contacts soon, I promise. So please let this red right eye just be a one-off lack of sleep and tiredness instead of the feared conjunctivitis.

Pretty pretty please with whipped cream and a cherry on top...
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Just over 2 weeks since my last entry. And I did 3 essays in my final week of Easter hols right up to the due dates in the 1st week of term. Literally wrote my international law essay from scratch the night before its deadline on Thursday. Thank God for housemates who pass on their research books and for people who teman me as I work through the night, only stopping for ice-cream breaks and 10 minute naps.
Encouragement from my housemate, Jenny whose parents visited her over Easter and brought me Hello Panda's from HK after knowing that I scoured Birm & London for them.
Close-ups of very yummy chocolate treats that have long disappeared.
Trying to bribe Toby into letting me take more breaks from my essay. I placed him right next to my laptop because he has a guilt-inducing mournful look that I see when I look up from my books. But, he did his duty and didn't succumb to HP's like me. =P
What my room looks like after a week of frantic cramming for essay writing.

Recuperated with a 12 hours of sleep and had a BBQ the next day where we bought disposable BBQ sets (my first time seeing a disposable one) and more than half our food ended up deliciously oven-baked cuz the BBQ sets took forever to cook!

Headed off to Birmingham for dim sum and major shopping session on Saturday and I am proud to say that I only spent GBP28 on a top and a dress and I spent the least among my friends. This is like a damn major achievement bcuz I always end up spending the most. Hah, take that all you people who call me an out-of-control shopaholic!

Sunday was a cookout where we had nasi lemak with sambal, sambal sotong, ikan bilis, fried onions, fried chicken which was so freaking good, this Korean spring roll like dish where you take a piece of lettuce, put some barbequed pork belly with chilli and/or sesame oil with salt, add in some spring onion seasoned with something that I don't know, fold it popiah-style and pop the whole thing in your mouth. Apparently this dish is called saam (or whoever you spell it) and upon being entertained at our failed attempts to pop it into our mouths in one go, my Korean friend Eugene told us that he didn't know a single Korean girl who couldn't do it. o.O He also made us strawberry sorbet which was such a heavensend after the spicy tear-inducing sambal. =)
Yummy home food that I would love to have for dinner tomorrow.
The guys (L-R: Eugene, Jin, Heng Yong) who cooked and the girls (L-R: Jenny, Janice, Nicole, Crystal and me) who ate! =) There wasn't enough space for them so they had to go out to their backyard and stand outside the window. Lol.

Finished the night off with poker and Mafia where it was a Gucci bag that won the night and brought justice for the zombies, not the well-reasoned and logical arguments that one would expect from 7 law students and 1 F&A student.Poker table and beer. The contents of that tumbler is Strongbow and not chinese tea.

In week 2, I attended the Singapore Society (SingSoc) Leavers Dinner where I had to dress up (hurray for Siew Yen who ventured out in a dress, sheer tights and 3 inch heels in 11 degrees celcius!). It was a well-planned and executed event by the excos and I thought it was very sweet and touching for the leavers. Sort of a little private party to say personal farewells to seniors. It would be nice if the Malaysian Society (MSA) had a Leavers Dinner next year...
What I wore to the dinner. Sigh. So formal for what la?
One of the performances for the night..

The rest of the week went to attending revision lectures and bumming during weekdays while annoying the crap out of my friends who started mugging for the exams while I was still in my 'chilling' attitude. Finally went to the factory outlet at Bicester North on Saturday where I failed to buy what I targeted and was supremely annoyed because here I was all ready to spend but there was nothing to buy. =.= On the way back we had to change trains and because it was kinda late around 7pm, we had to wait for an hour for the next train home and we passed the time playing "Never Have I Ever" and unearthed a whole mineful of interesting and random trivia about each other. Note: Must go to the Great Barrier Reef one day!

Had to haul myself to London the next day and miss church to bring up my sister's wheelie and lappie. That girl is finally flying home to Malaysia after gallivanting around Europe for a whole month. Damn I wish I was home for some curry laksa and cendol.
Lovely view of British countryside from the train. I think those white dots are sheeps..

Anyway, we had fish and chips for lunch because it is the classic Brit food and she had yet to try it. And we went to Hamley's on Oxford Circus which was such an awesome toy shop and bought a nerf gun for my brother. I decided to hang around there while waiting for my train home and we ended up eating Japanese food at Sakura's on Regent Street again while my sister went to Abracadabra for dinner.
Some really funky structure at the harbour front near London Bridge tube station.
At the bar-style table right in front of the chef who kindly obliged my shy request for his pic.
California rolls

And wow, week 3 is here before I realised! Yikes, I have 1 more month till my 1st paper and I have yet to work out a studying schedule. Am I screwed or am I screwed?! Didn't have too good a start to the week but things appeared to have picked up now. Attended the Sing Soc AGM tonight and was very impressed by their efficiency. Finally started studying today.

And now it is 2.48am and I should be in bed but I have decided to stay home and study tomorrow. =) Ooh, did I mention that I saw a royal helicopter on my way to lunch because Prince Phillip (the brother of Prince Charles who is the next in line to the British throne) was having tea with the vice-chancellor of my university. How cool is that?!! I was hoping for Prince William to be honest... =P Last term, Gordon Brown came to my university as well and Tony Pua flew all the way from Malaysia on AirAsia to give a talk which was hosted by MSA.
The Royal Helicopterrrrr! Where we behaved like Asian jacoons by whipping out our cameraphones and snap-snapping away. =PSomeone very kindly obliged with his 8.1 megapixel phone.
A random picture from the day after I came back from New York in March. I was in Leamington Spa for a proper British tea with my friends and this was in the park after stuffing ourselves silly. Thats Josephine from Singapore, Jenny and Janice from HK and they're all my coursemates.

And I end with a pic of my 2 favourite dogs.
Puppy and Toby. :)
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