down in the pits

there are people raking the leaves out on the lawn - the aftermath of the storm that was yesterday.

very soon i will be able to rake away the info overload too.

everything will be alright.

up on a cloud..

ahh bliss.

i've waited for this day for ages :)

the first of many visits from home. and i can't be happier that it's lilian to kick start them all.

another fantastic day, sun shining brightly, cambridge at it's finest.

i'm just so happy that everything came together perfect.

now as i sit in my room reminesing,

it all seemed so fast.

conversation blurs into one as we catch up on lost time

it's the same comfortable feeling :)

i wish it could happen all over again...

breaking the monotony

nothing can quite compare to strawberries and cream

on a bright sunny day

a picnic on the grass

taking all inhibitions away

if just momentarily...

but i'm happy enough

today has been a good day

a refreshing break from routine :)

nic was right,

when it comes to the exam period, you start questioning your aims in life.

why are you here?

what are you doing this for?

it suddenly all becomes quite meaningless.

every day is filled with superficial rote learning

i don't see the point.

my sleep cycle is all screwed up. all because of anatomy. boo.

but i've passed both steeplechases! woohoo. with the amount of revision i've done, it's quite an amazing feat. in fact, i think because of the steeplechase-overload, i'm getting the hang of it. some questions also seem to repeat... and i have to actually be able to recognise the different muscles to know that! hehe

the weather's getting slightly better. monday's forecasted to be SUNNY. my god, it's been awhile since we last saw proper sunshine. ahh all the better for tennis!

this is such a boring post. my life is pretty uneventful these days. mugmugmug. when the highlight of your day is reduced to mealtimes, u know something's not right.

the massive july babies birthday formal..

the july babies decided to hold a combined birthday formal since they wouldn't have the chance to on their actual birthdays. and so, we had the pseudo-birthday formalities today: present-exchange, formal, and the usual birthday banter..

now, normally this would only happen to the birthday girl. but since everyone was merry, why not 5-pence everybody in sight? made a whole load of sense then, now it just seems like silly fun. my tongue wasn't long enough to reach the bottom of the glass as lorna's could, and in the end i had to resort to stealing my dessert spoon back to finish my pudding.

one of the many pseudo-birthday girls.. lornabean. love. :)

another day has passed. i'm counting down...

lilian's coming next week already! i'm looking forward to her coming, but at the same time, that means i'll only be a week away from the exams! :S boo. i hate exams. however, if i choose to think of it as an inevitable hurdle before months of freedom and playtime, i might just have the motivation to work hard till then.

there, i've consoled myself sufficiently to start work again. sometimes i amaze myself.

today i played 3 hours of tennis. shiok. clara couldn't make it, so one of the guys coached me instead.. i can now hit a proper backhand! but i also have a huge blister on my thumb. well, as they say, no pain no gain. i hope it's a sign that i'm improving.

tennis is one of the best sports ever. i think i will play everyday when i get back over the summer. it'll be the one sport that i will be following on tv AND playing. too bad roland garros has to be held during my exams, or i'd be glued to the tv in the bars in june. works out perfectly: after the premiership season ends, it'll be 2 grand slams in a row - french open then wimbledon. AHH if only i had tickets for wimbledon...

ok, anatomy calls.... i will finish it all this weekend. yes i will.

LONDON~

mou-rin-h-o!

are u listening?

u've got to keep the trophy glistening.

cos we're coming back in may

to take it away

walking in a fergie wonderland!

nothing can ever beat live football matches, although yesterday's match was a bit disappointing in the build-up. it was meant to be THE match of the season, with the top 2 premiership teams fighting it out for the title. but not before chelsea tamely gave the fight up by not being able to win arsenal over the weekend. booooooo.

so there we were, watching the the chelsea and man utd second stringers in action. sootet: u got to see keiran richardson up close! bahhh.

our seats were reallly good though. 10 rows from the front. behind the goal...

here's rooney during half-time, showing off as usual. kept the ball off the ground all the way from the goalposts to the sidelines. OK i know that might be nothing to some people, but i'm a girl. i don't play football. i tried to see how many times i could juggle with the ball, and it only got up as high as 2 kicks. so pathetic..

solskjaer, terry, smith, essien all in one picture. haha that dongfangzhuo spoiling the prefect picture. owell, he had a special chant from the man utd fans:

ding dong ding dong
wherever u are from...

then i can't rmb anymore haha.. wad to do? i have such a goldfish memory.

yea, so the match went fine. 0-0 draw. but what else could be expected given my recent run of bad luck with these games?

the remainder of the time i was in london was spent hanging out with meng and his winchestonians. peas in a pod. i swear these schools churn out almost identical final products! they were pretty cool though, so that's fine.

and before i knew it, my one-day escape from cambridge ended. just like that. :( and now it's back to mad revision. tata.

boredboredbored..

after finishing an essay, i always get this down time where i feel satisfied and contented with myself, at the same time not doing anything productive.. and hence this entry. but yes, i'm done with my fab essay! :)

the weekend was all about medics/vets dinner. the big annual 25 pound 5 course dinner in the old library. and as always, the brits will try to get the money's worth of alcohol.

by the end of the night, they were all so tipsy they couldn't even get their own names correct.

nic and i rushed off for spiderman 3 after dinner. best decision made, or else we'd be lying on the floor in H10 passed out or similar. as i warned, it WAS carnage. just carnage that i missed. for spiderman, which wasn't as great as everyone made it out to be. cheesy lines galore...

"everyone needs help sometimes, even spiderman"

oh, so true! in every meaning of that phrase.

it was mabel's birthday yesterday.. all 20 years old now. just like me.

lunch at spoons.. oh the sharers! where were they all my life? hahha barbecue chicken wings and ribs with chips. a huge mountain of them. mmmmm

i realise i always end with food. haha. it's one of the loves of my life!

GAH.

chelsea always disappoints. now i'm just going for a party celebration at stamford bridge for all the "starry eyed man u fans" as prof puts it.

it's been raining all day today. somewhat depressing, but yet somehow comforting. i'm glad that i'm done with all my lessons for today and now can sit in my room and get down to slogging. no, take that back. i'm only happy to sit in my room. i have 2 essays looming, of which i have to finish at least one today so that i can do my other one tmr before london. PLUS i need to revise and not get sucked under all these supervision work... :(((

somebody save me.

johns formal swap.. again.

this is the pembroke medic crew yesterday at johns. a girls' night out...

theo the john's boy.. with kat and alasdire from magdalene. across the table, talk was about how people wake up in awe everyday in cambridge, and that makes them work. or does it? and of course, when u put a pembroke medic together with some madgalene medics, who else do we end up talking about but cecilia? haha dear cecilia. i have found one of the 2 medics whose supervision i'm crashing on thursday!

these 3 girls are obviously disillusioned. they think they are having an intellectual DR conversation.

ahh these formal swaps... johns is normally one of the better places to go visit. the food last night was fantastic! smoked salmon for starters, chicken with mushrooms, spinach and gnocchi for entree and icecream!! all for 3.85 pounds.. i was in heaven.

yes, and up on the schedule tonight: medics/vets dinner. it will be carnage. be warned.

arghhhhhh!

i can't believe how shit man u played tonight! destroyed my mood to study now.. maybe i should just drown myself in comfort food. there're loads of chocolate/sweets/pineapple tarts/cookies in my room anyway...

sigh, on a brighter note: croquet yesterday! like, finally!

it was nice and sunny. 3 hours lazing around on the croquet lawn meant no work done. but it was such a good break... the sun here is amazing, bright but not scorching. the wind makes all the diff too. ahhh.

we even had an audience!

hehe.. according to lorna, it was a "good tactical game", which ended up with me winning cos the rest just took turns kiling each other off! when u hit the colourful pole in the middle before u've gone through all the 6 hoops, u lose and start from the beginning again. the best part of croquet is when u get to whack other people's balls against the pole when they're about to win and make them start again! and so the game continues... and continue it did.. all the way until 6pm. (we started at 3)

and then it was dinner+ugly betty time. and more time-wasting on the liverpool-chelsea match. that result was rubbish, but not as rubbish as tonight's. :( sigh.