Ponned the Sprachwissenschaft Seminar again. Really no desire to go on a snowy day for ONE lesson. I'd just be bored out of my wits and hate it that I wasted my time there. At least I did some work on my synchronic linguistics while at home...then I must do more for Sprachwissenschaft this week, before I go back to revising synchronic linguistics again.

Dunno what to say already, although I am dying to complain and complain. But I already complain too much. Becoming a typical Singaporean maybe? What exactly am I dissatisfied with? Actually, I think I know the answer. It's myself.

YOU ARE FIRE!

Your inner element is one of great passion and
intensity. You are a dramatic person who loves
attention and knows how to get it. You tend to
have many
friends and admirers around you wherever you go.
You have a strong intellect, tend to have
strong opinions on issues close to your heart
and don't know the meaning of tact. You are
generally an active person who loves sports and
all things competitive... and you like to win!
Any career that will bring you the attention
you crave and uses your talents of persuasion
is ideal for you. Love tends to elude you
frequently - you can more easily find passion
or good friendship than true love. When you do
finally fall in love... you fall with all your
heart. However, when it comes to the passion
end of things, you are second to none.

Your greatest strengths are your courage to express
yourself no matter what and your incredible
charisma. You weaknesses are a tendency to
narcissism and the possibility of alienating
others with your forwardness. Balancing your
strengths and weaknesses is crucial for you to
achieve balance in your life.

Astrologically, Fire is associated with the signs
of Aries, Leo and Sagittarius. You are most
compatible for either love or friendship with
another Fire Elemental or with an Air. You are
least compatible with a Water Elemental.

Now that you have an idea of your strengths and
weaknesses, why don't you put them to the test?
If you follow my lead I can take you to a game
world where you can explore different sides of
yourself and taste real power....

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Whoopie. Chinese New Year and I spent the whole day at school. Must be the best CNY of my entire life (in case you haven't gotten the hint, the message is wrapped in sweet old sarcasm.)

Woke up at 8 am...wanted to go back to bed. Realised, hey, I have a class at 9.20...no choice, must wake up...plus I had the diskette, which is like the only thing that has all the info in it...so, being the responsibility freak I am, I reluctantly got out of bed. It was freezing!! And it was snowing too. Wanted to turn around and go home, but too late, already there. Today's class was quite stress-free. Only had to check other groups' tests and their feedback. The other group laughed and laughed at our feedback, which I must say, was very funny...but I think it's not really good feedback if you were taking test seriously and wanted to know what you did wrong. I'm quite sure we aren't gonna score any points for humour on this assignment...but I'm too apathetic to want to change anything. It took us super long to come up with real-looking fake answers...much less to come up with reasons why they are all wrong! Also talked a bit to 2 girls who were learning Chinese. I think they learn quite fast at this level. Intriguing to see people interested in learning Chinese and who actually take it up at the Uni.

The next 2 lessons, I spent mostly stoning. Bored until wanna cry already! Then there was linguistics. Tried to pay attention, cos exam's next week, but I think this "recap" only made me even more confused than before. The tutorial was even worse. It was crowded, the tutor was in dreamland and kept contradicting herself. I have learned to take her words with a pinch of salt, cos she's made quite a few glaring mistakes so far...but she's an ok person lah.

Then I watched "Boys Don't Cry". Goodness, what a tragic movie!! The fact that it's real makes it even more tragic. I hate good movies that are tragic, cos they are so good that they make me feel super sad. Terrible dilemma, ain't it? Oh course, there are really stupid movies too, like "Scary Movie 3" which makes you laugh cos it's sad that there are people who think they are funny when they come up with such crap. Actually, it almost made me cry! Pity the sad fools with a lousy sense of humour! Actually, I am probably one of them...even sadder.

Headache man...literally..head feels like it's gonna explode...even after a panadol. This is so awful...can't do anything productive like that.

Other than that, it wasn't too bad a day. I received a super surprise from Jiat Ling and Kheng Hui. Food from Singapore...never expected it and it was the best surprise ever. Thanks a lot guys! I was really thrilled.

One week left to my birthday and one week and a day left to my first exam. I may not ace it...but I am only aiming to pass. I don't wanna get kicked out of uni anymore.

Ruth says now that she's discovered my blog, I can't say anything bad about her anymore...haha. Does that really make a difference? Nah, don't have anything bad to say about her anyway. She's the best! =)

Ugh, got school...5 full double periods of it tmr...what a sucky CNY...no reunion dinner and the like either. Ah well, wait till I get back to Singapore lah.

Oh, I read Arthur Miller's "The Death of a Salesman" and Tennesse Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire"...erm yeah, should be studying instead, but I couldn't resist reading them after I saw the titles in my lit textbook while I was doing revision...heh.

I got a 1-2 for my linguistics test...horrible man...I really really wanted a 1 for this one...but what to do? I was super careless. Good thing didn't minus any more marks than I had already.

The weekend was great! It was such a relief from all the exam pressure. Plus, it was super good to see Singaporeans again. I hadn't spoken so much English/Singlish for 4 months already. Bacharach was pretty...from what we saw of it anyway. The castle was on a hill though...and I mean Bukit Timah Hill-like...and we had to climb up there in darkness...it was a bit slippery too. But the view was really gorgeous and the youth hostel was pretty too, for the price we were paying. I thought I was gonna die though...it was so tiring, esp since I haven't done any exercise in eons. Good thing there were more guys than girls, so they carried the bags. But it was nice of them to offer. I know some guys who wouldn't even bother.

We had dinner, watched "The Teenage Textbook", then played charades...it was really funny, cos we came up with a lot of "un-actable" words, like "puberty", "enigma" and "corpulent"...so it was pretty funny, watching how people decided to act it out. We watched other movies and yakked a lot too. Well, I talked a lot anyway. I always talk too much when I meet new people. Ying Han says I do it to make up for the awkwardness. I wonder how people can stand me...cos in those cases, I talk too much, too loudly and say stupid things. I'm also bossy and overbearing. Well, hopefully the rest are forgiving and I didn't leave an uneraseably bad impression.

On the second day, we looked at scenery, walked around the town and had lunch at a small restaurant. It was quite funny cos all the guys were studying either some engineering subject or Elektrotechnik...so you can guess what most of the conversations were about. But it was okay, I sat next to people who didn't wanna talk engineering all the time. Then it was time for wine tasting...I didn't drink anything...but I found out quite a few things about wine. Quite a few people turned kinda red after 5 glasses..but no one was drunk. Then we went to see the vineyard...and some guys raced up the hill, which I thought was really steep! Then we walked up the hill, before it got dark. After a super relaxing shower, we went for dinner and talked again. After that we watched "Fifteen", which was funny and sad. By the way, did they show it in Singapore in the end? It is only a short film anyway. Then some of us played Snap. It was quite crazy, cos we played with poker cards and changed some of the rules and way of playing. But it was really really funny and "intellectual"..hard to explain here, but it was really fun..and from 4 players, it grew to 7. The rest were either sleeping or playing Bridge. It was great!

Then on Sunday, it was time to leave..so soon! Some people left already, by car...the rest took the train to Mainz and we had lunch at..Macs! But the important thing was the company lah. So we talked more there...and at about 12pm or so, most of the rest left. Only Jermaine, Ruth and I were left. We went to look for the washrooms, then went into a bookshop. Then Jermaine left to catch his train to Frankfurt, so Ruth and I were left. We had lunch...or rather, I had lunch. We took the train to Frankfurt...but it stopped in the middle of nowhere and no one announced that we missed the train to Dresden! So those people going to Dresden ran from Platform 1 to 10, only to find that the train had already left. So had to take another train, which wasn't direct to Dresden. Had to change halfway at Eisenach, and we almost missed that train there too, cos the train was delayed again. But thank God we didn't. Then I thought, phew, can finally relax...but they suddenly announced: this train will be ending at Leipzig. So if you are going on further to Dresden, you'd have to change trains again! I was so fuming mad man! But at least I got back!! I was so glad man...I was exhausted from the lack of sleep over the previous 2 nights.

Now it's back to school and full speed ahead for the rest of the time before exams!

Happy CNY in advance!