Randomness.

Read a notice downstairs saying that study time is still on tomorrow night, despite the assembly at nine (for "bonding", you know).

Yeah, forty-five minutes in the library sure sounds helpful. They should start on Tuesday to at least give us the entire one and a half hours. And it's so unfair that Year 1s to Year 3s have to be at the library. Can't get anything done there.

Anyway, my mailbox is being spammed by Facebook as I type this, 'cause we're embarking on an epic search for a China scholar for MJ (it's high time we started).

Don't worry, MJ, we'll definitely find you someone before the end of the week.

Had a pretty uneventful afternoon, because I slept it away in a desperate attempt to get rid of my swollen eyes and leaking nose. Ridiculously retarded flu-thing. Thank goodness it's okay now. Don't want to show up at school looking like a goldfish or something.

Have PE tomorrow. On a Monday. Which means we get to wear ties after running around. Sounds like fun.

At least we don't have Math tomorrow.

Dinner-ed with Fatinn, Syaf, Emily, Woan Chyi, Wardah, Collin, Thao, and Ly-En just now. Had epic conversations about random things.

I miss 8A. Best cluster ever.

All right, going off to read LotR now.

Night.

P.S. It's a LIE.

Sherlock Holmes.

Okay, first off, filler picture of the MRT machine going -.- . Strange that we didn't notice it before.

Still feel like I owe myself more sleeping time, but I'm planning to stay up late tonight reading LotR (haven't picked it up for some proper reading since I got back, stuck at the part where Gandalf leads Théoden to Isengard).

Made a bet with Woan Chyi that if I didn't finish it by the end of the month, I'd owe her pizza.

Fair enough, I guess. Need to be fair to all the other books I've bought but haven't read yet.

Went out today to meet my cousin for brunch/lunch (whichever). He handed me my Alhambra. I've missed it loads, man. Loads.

Then came back to go out again with Fatinn, Woan Chyi and Nazihah to watch 'Sherlock Holmes'. It was good, man. Don't know why we were still falling asleep though. Kept zoning out during the movie. But it was definitely good.

Had dinner out too, 'cause I had a glimpse of the menu and saw the word "squid". Not very appealing, that.

Unpacked my boxes the day before, so I can now say that I'm officially done unpacking. That's a good thing, right? Not looking forward to re-packing, but I'm trying to keep it simple this year so I won't die like last year. But let's not talk about that, because it's just plain depressing.

The internet connection here hasn't really improved much, but it kinda becomes less sucky during the weekends when the Year 5s go home.

Ah.

Going to read LotR before my brain drifts off.

Night.

P.S. Sherlock Holmes has a six-pack. How is that not awesome of him?

FiboNa'vi.

Feeling seriously tired right now.

Dunno why though. Must be 'cause we've been busy all day for the entire week. Wake up every morning feeling as if I desperately need to get back to sleep (you know, as if you hadn't slept a wink at all? Yeah, that feeling).

It's like, you fall asleep, then you dream some randomly wacked dreams, then you wake up seemingly five seconds later (when it's actually been six whole hours).

Was watching 'Ghosts of Girlfriends Past' in the level 5 TV room just now, and all of us were nodding off. Now that's sad.

Never felt so relieved to be able to wake up late.

But I need to meet my cousin tomorrow so have to wake up earlier than I'd like to (that's okay though, he's treating me for lunch).

School was all right. Had an hour of nothing early in the morning 'cause we didn't have class, so it was just Aisyah, Faiz, Yos, Ahmad and I at the bench beside the netball court discussing sexuality issues (I'm straight, just in case you haven't realised. Sorry girls).

Apart from that, we had mentoring, nothingness, Physics, Math, Malay (epic misunderstanding here), Chem, and English today. All not so bad. Pretty much elected Ryan as every rep possible. He's so far our Math rep, Physics rep, Chem rep and hopefully mentor rep. It's like, all-in-one. Poor guy. But it's hella funny.

Been using my lego torchlight thing (Cheryl named it Bob, and claims it's her husband) as a light saber. MJ and I were "zinggg"-ing our way through lunch. Bet Rania thought we were complete retards.

Okay, going to go off now. My eyes are like, dying as I type this.

Night, good people.

P.S. I bought a banana today, and Debb, Shi Ni, Rania and MJ apparently think it's hilarious.

Campfire.

I'll give you three reasons right now why it's good to live in the hostel.

Firstly, when we ended the campfire last night sometime past nine, a lot of us were online some ten minutes later while everyone else was on their way home.

Secondly, when you forget to bring anything you have the option to simply run back to get it before school starts (usually we're too lazy to do that, and we're not allowed back before one, so not as effective).

Thirdly, you don't really need to use the lockers 'cause the distance you travel to carry things to and fro is freakishly short.

Oh gosh, this is so "in your face". At least non-hostel people get nice, home-cooked food and air-conditioning. And a dozen other comforts of home.

Anyway, this post is going to be dated yesterday's, 'cause I wrote a few lines then decided to go to sleep 'cause I couldn't keep my eyes open or my brain processing properly.

The campfire was pretty awesome. (Green Ambassador fail though. Say bye to the ozone layer, kids.)

Had this epic FiboNa'vi idea for our performance thing. Avatar-crazed people.

And the Visa ad song is still stuck in my head.

Our mentor won't let us name our class mascot "Stonebob Nopants". She says she thinks "Nopants" will cause some offence. But I dunno, man. A lot of cartoon characters don't wear pants either. Besides, since when did rocks wear pants?

Oh, and class photo location was interesting. Kinda disappointed nobody fell into the pond though. That would've been funny.

Okay, this post is long overdue enough.

Adieu.

Zombie killers.

Second day of orientation today.

Had this "Amazing Race" thing around the NUS campus. We're epic, man. The story line was like this: Apparently some zombie infection thing has spread around the world and we've got to somehow run away from/hunt/get to some place free from zombies (braiinnns).

Pretty sure we had plenty of fun though, getting lost and walking and doing our really lame cheer and walking and completing the stations and walking and not taking buses and walking. Did I mention we walked a lot? Well we did.

Zombieees.

Didn't see any though.

Since I really need sleep, I'll just put this link to a Red Bull article on Kimi Raikkonen and an excerpt from said article here.

"Who’s going to win snowboarding Olympic gold in the half-pipe?

I’ll keep my fingers crossed for the Finns, but it’ll probably be hard to beat Shaun White.

Who’s going to be the next World Rally Champion?
Loeb or Hirvonen. Loeb.

And MotoGP?
Have the teams changed much? No. So – Rossi.

Formula One?
Hard to say. I don’t know what Ferrari’s plans are. Mercedes will probably have a good car, so will McLaren. Red Bull Racing probably will too. So I’m going to have to award the title based on who I like: Sebastian Vettel. He’s so down-to-earth. "

It's like most sports are dominated by one or two (sometimes three) guys nowadays, except from F1. Not very comfortable with Ferrari's lack of everything right now. Will elaborate sometime sooner.

Okay, going off now.

Night.

P.S. Briatore's lifetime ban from motorsport got lifted. Interesting.

P.P.S. Shaun White owns.

Munkehhs.

Okay, quick one for tonight, 'cause it's late and I want to get a few pages of LotR in before sleep. I love LotR.

It feels like I've been here for a week, although it's been what, three days?

School today felt like it dragged on for a week. Hadn't had such a long day since the holidays started. Usually just slept and lazed my day away (not really, but I didn't have to sit for hours on end listening to lectures then).

So today's the first day of school, and orientation's officially begun. And I think we can call it "Technical Error" day, 'cause the system during the assembly this morning seriously failed.

Basically all we did was sit around (till butt numbness or ass-aching) listening to talks and things like that. Then we had really messy breaks at our canteen with new vendors with apparently less satisfying food (I don't know myself 'cause I haven't tried anything yet) and new people to sit with. Keep wandering back to old classmates though.

Won't say much 'bout new classes yet though. Should be pretty all right, I guess (still quite lame).

Plenty of other changes though, like staff and the canteen. And that orange wall (the one at the hostel with "hidden mickey" circles on them).

Had Rania for company during the super long house meeting. Then we mass danced like idiots. It was pretty fun though, I admit. It's okay to be lame sometimes (those coloured visors are like, seriously cool, man).

All right, better go off now. Woke up really early today. Some form of semangat, I guess.

It'll definitely wear off after a few weeks.

Night.

P.S. It's Nazihah's birthday today. Happy birthday, man.

P.P.S. The lame joke that came into existence as a result of being high on birthday cake late at night in our room: "Why did the monkey cross the road? To commit suicide because it got dumped by bananas." Talk about monkey cruelty.

Unpacking.

All right, I'm back.

Back to blogging. Back to Singapore. Back to school. Whichever.

A lot of people are moving in today (definitely more than half of the entire hostel), 'cause school starts tomorrow and stuff like that.

We've got like, three days of orientation before school really starts to look forward to.

I personally think three full days is a lot for orientation (and for the entire school). But I dunno. Whatever postpones lessons gets my favour, I guess.

Anyway, I've got a box left to unpack, which is full of books and other random bits of things. Had the help of Woan Chyi who borrowed the trolley to remove our boxes from 8A. I'm gonna miss 8A, man. It feels really weird getting into one of the lifts and not pressing the number eight.

Some of us are in 5B (and get the level 5 TV room, lucky them) and some in 9A, and some really, really lucky people get to stay in 8A. No fun.

That means no more simply knocking on other people's doors for dinner. Now we've got to like, make phone calls and contact each other through MSN.

Met the juniors at noon. Was heading downstairs to meet up with Ly En for lunch (and to eat out of trays again) when they got here.

Went out with Woan Chyi and Nazihah (one of the juniors) after that, 'cause I needed to buy credit for my phone, Woan Chyi needed to buy food, and Nazihah needed school shoes.

It's pretty lonely here, 'cause half of the Bruneians aren't back yet, so it's just me and Woan Chyi (and we're in different clusters, so that sucks big time).

The internet connection is still suckish, by the way.

Going down for dinner now.

See you guys when school reopens.