recess break schedule

my last recess break. a time to catch up on work, and to prep for my proj and 5 midterms after it. somehow i've managed to schedule quite a bit of misc stuff inside too, and i blame myself for agreeing readily to meetups w/o looking at my schedule (which wasn't done up anyways then). 

mon - dinner at JP with lalaa who's coming all the way fr the east to check out the newly renovated (and very nice) shopping centre. then followed by my best guys at the same place at 9pm. shall raise the idea of a taiwan/hk/batam trip to them. will hide at the lib in btw the 2 grps to read up on my notes; i do stay quite close but the 15min bus ride ain't exactly negligible.

figured i'm really an asian-country oriented person, after all my overseas trips, and jack further gave me insight into my preference by telling me he thought i looked the kind who preferred countries with "asian-looking girls". hmm never thought of that b4. 

tue - tennis in the morn to perk myself b4 the lib at 8, then NM proj mtg at 10. sigh, when i think abt it again. hahaha. but there's one cool-looking guy and a receptive someone there so i may actually secure another friendship b4 i leave NUS afterall. 

wed - trg with coach. 8-9 with ethel and 9-11 with linky and ginny. ethel's kinda behind me (by q alot at the moment) and coach/linky/ginny are saying my progress will be slowed down for the foreseeable future, but i really quite enjoy her company (no linky i am not interested in her) and think she'll catch up quite fast - enough pple for doubles, finally. 

thur - IMRE visit in the morn, physics outing after that, then a short break (hide in some random lib again) b4 gg mtg up with oldflaggers at josh's for dinner and a bit of guitar hero. 

fri - tentatively free, and should be at sci lib all day. will decide the day b4 whether it's a tennis session in early morn b4 lib opens or a swim session inbtw during 3-4pm. or both.

sat - study/swim/study, then meeting glad in sch 1700 to chevrons for dinner and bowling. i dunno why the hell the badminton courts are like booked the whole week, at all times la. hahaha. but bowling is fun too. maybe i'll bring one of my balls. but maybe not, it's heavy. 

sun - similar to fri. sigh. hopefully i'm done with most of my revision. it's gonna be an uphill task i feel. really do hate QuantumMech. but ohwells it's my last time studying it le. jiayous to myself!

NM2220 proj grp

having only 1 proj this sem and zero CCAs, i pinned my hopes on NM2220. on a fateful day last tues during tutorial class where the tutor announced that we were supposed to break up into proj grps of 5 or 6, there was a short silence thereafter as people expressed disorientation as to what to do. 

and i begun to make my move to get the row in front of me to join my current row of 3 (me and 2 other gals). then as i was abt to speak, one of the 3 guys in the row to the left of mine shouted "hey u pple dun have a grp yet right! join us then got 6 alr. the row to ur front can join the row infront of us which has 4, then both will have 6 alr."

the logic was so obvious, i couldn't think of a suitable rebuttal. so within a second of him ending his sentence, i had alr prepared and subsequently executed my vigourous thumbs-up sign with a knowing grin, and a look that said i-had-totally-been-thinking-of-that-too-and-i-feel-pleased-to-be-teamed-up-with-you-guys, despite feeling totally to the contrary.

the DVD fiasco

lately i've been trying to order my movie/game DVDs from online (m'sia) delivery sites and my latest attempt using Globla2.com din seem to work out. they did send me the customary mail noting my order but it's been hanging there since last month.

so i tried using Da-tou.com a week ago and.. tadaaa they sent me the confirmation mail within an hr, then called for verbal confirmation the next day. that;'s fast. i was fairly impressed, and made a mental note to use this website preferentially in the future.

then yesterday, during tennis lessons at abt 9am, the Da-tou guy called and said that the delivery would be from 3-4pm at a location of my choice (NUS, obviously). looks like i'll get my stuff without much hassle this time, i thought.

at 3pm, the guy called to confirm my location again and appealed to me to rmbr to pick up my HP when he arrived in a short while so his trip wouldn't be in vain. i assured him that i too, wanted my DVDs and would be there promptly.

the white car appeared in view, the man dispensed to me a blue plastic bag and collected his payment, thereafter zooming off into the distance. all in all, a speedy transaction. i then browsed thru the contents in mild curiosity. hmm? seems like i got less DVDs in total. and some which i din order. weird. then i saw the movie "benjamin button", which i hadn't ordered, and i kind of realised what exactly happened.

i called the guy and asked abt which company he belonged to. Globla2.com was his answer.

shopping with linky

shopping for sports equipment has always been a big part of my life, and something i look forward to. for one not only has to research on the details beforehand (else risk being a gullible sheep for shopowners' exploitation and flawed knowledge), even with proper preparation it may turn out that the shoes may not fit, or that the rackets dun turn out to be suitable for one's build and playing style, or for my case, the aesthetics dun match up to expectations. it's all so exciting. 

planned to go shopping at queensway, then eat the katong spoon laksa there, then pop by at ikea to dapao meatballs back home. since it was an unplanned trip, i decided to search my mind for pple who were most likely to be available at short notice (3 hrs lol) and interested in buying sports equipment or simply pigging out. 

after a few calls, i ended up with linky, who was all too willing to go cos he too, had to get tennis shoes and check out models of tennis rackets and bags. not entirely sure of his shopping style (1. relaxed, uninformed, meandering, dependent on shopkeeper or 2. informed, focussed, rational and quick) i decided to play safe and go there an hr early. just in case he was the 2nd type.

reached then looked thru all the shops (close to 20 i think) for the products i highlighted, then took down the prices  (after discount) of different models each shop had on my phone. tried out the fittings for the few models i thought fit my criteria. then bought some finger food to meander around the complex whilst doing a cost-benefit analysis on which shoe model (from 3) to choose from. 

now u know why i have to go there beforehand - i take alot of time to make a decision, afterall, why rush oneself to make one when one is not totally convinced of the choice? then linky arrived, and i soon discovered that he went more for the looks, then tried to see if those he liked fit. no issue with that. and good thing i thought of my decision beforehand, cos he turned out to be relatively more decisive (or impulsive?) than me. 

walked around after our purchase, looking at sports equipment and talking abt tennis and general topics, then had some laksa. and i rediscovered to my chagrin that i always choke and cough when i have spicy stuff due to my sensitive nose. but the laksa was good la. 

i then looked at my hp to check the time. hell, it's been like nearly 4 hrs since i met him. both of us were kinda incredulous after finding we took that long to buy a pair of tennis shoes, slippers and have laksa. ohwells. it can only be a good thing; i've been out with pple with whom time passes by as if an hr was an eternity.