wonderful wonderful wonderful day today!!! :):)

look what we got via email from our LBCs:

SECOND BOAT: You raced in 12:31 - damn hot girls. This places you 23rd out of ALL 65 women's boats, which is AWESOME. And, you came FOURTH out of all the second boats!!! That was fourth by only 28 seconds as well! So the same result as the first girls, brilliant! To come fourth is amazing anyway, but you also managed to beat 12 first boats!!!! OH MY GOD YOU ARE AMAZING.

i thought Fairbairns would be a killer, but it was actually FUN! and shorter than I'd expected. that means that we could have pushed harder and got a faster timing!! but i'm still really pleased with ours!! 4th out of all the second boats on the river! how cool is that? :) haha!

this week has been wonderful... i love it when we're the only people in the world that's celebrating christmas a month early just cos we're in university that closes for the holidays and we don't want to miss out on all the christmas fun. the whole week's been christmas week and i enjoyed it tremendously... busybusybusy going for everything:

monday: carol service in the pembroke chapel. the choir was absolutely amazinggg! i've never heard anyone i know sing sooooo well before! and that guy's solo piece was stunning. exactly like a professional opera's voice!! omg i can't even describe it properly... mince pies after in the old library as well.. heavenly.

tuesday: busybusybusiest day of the week: had preparing for patients where we went to visit an old lady in her home and got lots of chocolates and coffee AND a stuffed toy in return! i hope i'm as contented as her when i'm her age. it's so heart-warming. did erggggggs after rushing back in a 10 min sprint on the bike after which my legs were dead tired alr. so u can imagine how i fared on the ergs. died, showered, then went for christmas formal!!!



















that's in hall for formal. i think i'll miss formals when i go home. it's always good fun! PCMS concert after where we went to learn how to be a little more cultured. the choir as usual was wonderful and i finally got to see lydia play! she's awesomeeee.. i don't understand how everybody can be so talented! went to cindies after for christmas cheese night. FUNFUNFUN! i actually am beginning to enjoy it all now.. perfect timing since i'm going home in 2 day's time.

wednesday: had pasta push for 2nd women's boat. we had our printed tees given to us by santa maggie and ellie! my first bit of stash!!! and it has my name on it as well! :) i love it to bits. pantomine in the hall after. it's kinda like this parady of a fairy tale, in this case peter PEM. hahaha.. they forgot all their lines so it turned out to be kind of impromptu but it was hilarious! traditionally the dean takes part and we all sing angels by robbie williams with the lyrics changed: i think i'm loving pembroke instead!!!!!

thursday today!: fairbairns fairbairns! it's funny cos that is my friend's surname! and she doesn't row too. we DOMINATED as ellie would put it. sitting tall and proud, showing the rest of the river what the pembroke women are made of. we nearly caught up with the boat in front of us and as the email showed, we're all damn proud of ourselves!!

we just had our farewell for lydia. she's going back to caltech after a term here at cambridge. they all went for formal but i couldn't a ticket in the end cos it was all sold out :( would have been nice to have a formal with them.

the farewell was goooood. :) her mum came down and we gave her presents and even wanted to put on a little concert cos we had 2 gifted guitar-players! i need to learn how to play the guitar!! and ooo the tiramisu and blueberry cake!! yummmm. :):) sometimes i'm surprised at how good sainsbury's basics really are.. especially the desserts!

right, really need to get some sleep for tmr's clare ragetta! i'm rowing with the first boat as a sub. it should be goooood :) hope we win it or at least get as far as we possibly can! saw the draw and we're basically up against grad students in the very first round! bahh.. that just isn't fair. but WE WILL WIN!! so there!

had netball formal on tuesday:


















our fab netball team that forfeited our semifinals to go shopping instead at nottingham. clare's hall was amazing. nice and cosy... although i still prefer pembroke's :) i love it cos it's just so pretty!


and i have to post a picture of the wonderful pembroke women's 2nd novice boat!! we are so coooooll!
















this was for emma sprints last sunday! we went as the universe.. (u can obviousssssllly tell from our costumes haha!) and if we didn't have to race with guys, we would have won the whole thing!! hehheh.. that's according to livy. the picture on the right was like our 6th time trying to get a photo in the air, jumping in our socks on pebbly ground while waiting for emma sprints to start! we basically had 2 options: wait and freeze and the boat OR get out of the boat and do star jumps. u can definitely see which one we chose.

i had a dissection table outing today.. casino royale was quite a good show, except that it was a blatant Sony advertisement. i swear they were paid truckloads by Sony to showcase sony erikson and the viao like fiftyyyy times throughout the movie! and the christmas lights were up! i finally got to see them on our walk to the cinema... nothing compared to orchard road though. before the show, we met at king's... the king's bar is so coool they have all these cushiony cubical seats that u find in restaurants AND they are the only college to have a coffeeshop in college! i think i'll miss my dissection sessions cos they're all so nice people. plus the recent dissection sessions are so productive cos we actually managed to find every single vein/artery/muscle/gland that we were supposed to and that is definitely satisfying! i think i'll grow to love the brachial plexus... the only thing is that the smell is starting to get bad and my eyes start to tear when i go too close. but still.... they're small inconveniences.

we've just got given a whole long list of holiday homework for HOM. it's not going to be an actual holiday at all! bahhh. i've got to sleep now, long day ahead. talking about homework's got me all sleepy for some reason.

dunno what's wrong with me, i felt so happy in the morning and now i'm feeling shit cos of the thought of anatomy essay. ughh. and i thought i had planned my time well too: went to london in the weekend, had emma sprints AND finished a mims essay in the process. now that is skill.

i just spent 1.5 hours watching thank you for smoking, which was surprisingly refreshing. i dun get the raking of japanese sand bit, but the rest was fab. characters were a bit kooky, but kooky people are the ingredients of a good movie i say! and now it's 10pm. i have rowing early tmr morning.. they're pushing it forward, which means that i would have to get up earlier. groan.

i wish my room was sound proof. inside and out. then i wouldn't be able to hear all those people talking and i can blast jay chou without worrying about offending anybody.

slightly less than 2 weeks more to go. i can't wait. lorna just asked me to go to the jp, just didn't feel in the mood.

ok, back to anatomyyy.

just a few random things:

i think i don't as many people as i should have. i should be more sociable.
i should get a college scarf.
pennying is now officially banned in formal hall because of the medic exploits last friday. but we still did it last night when barbara came down to visit.. nobody cares about the rules..
i'm regretting missing A&E! heard it beat last night hands down.
guy fawkes night tonight = fireworks and bonfire! perfect cure for the cold. :)
i am jay chou's biggest fan.
i need to do more work.