This blog is dead and will no longer be updated.

I may be closing down this blog soon, simply because I don't use it anymore.

Am absently thinking of doing jewelery design after the As. Low cost stuff, just to see if I can get some marketable designs with decent profit margins.

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Was happy yesterday (somewhat), am sad today. I'm okay with that.

Tell me if you've heard this one before.

You're sick. Can't bear to go out, just holed up in your room under the blanket. Bit of sun filtering through the curtains, only light there is. The light hurts your eyes, the dark makes your head ache.

You're sick, and you don't want to take your medication. Because the medicine makes you giddy, makes you throw up, makes you want to die.

But either way, you're dead - in the long run, we're all dead. So you just take the pills.

And maybe you should have done it earlier, because you don't heal right. It takes longer for the fever to die down - and you know the cure's worse than the disease.

You take it anyway. You still don't heal right.

It comes back again, and again, and again.

So you finally stop. You just stay sick, and live on painkillers. Doesn't matter, either way.

In the long run, we're all dead.

New layout at falqwin .

Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them.
-- Terry Pratchett

As always, am sticking to the age-old tradition of only changing my layout right before my exams.

So: Go forth to falqwin , then!

I am seething with anger right now - but I will do this as objectively and as gently possible.

I have a good number of friends from both RI and RGS who are in RJC (or RIJC) this year. I am aware of the fact that a good number of these juniors cannot - for one reason or another - get along with some of my other juniors. I also am becoming more aware of the fact that a good number of you are well, bad-mouthing the people that you don't get along with. I will also take the opportunity to point out that a hell lot more girls seem to be doing this as compared to the guys. And these juniors aren't just gossiping about the guys - they're also talking about the girls.

As such, I would like to suggest that you, my dear juniors, kindly refrain from using the childish (I do hate using this word, but it's appropriate) phrases "Eww, I don't like ____" or looking generally squemish when I suggest that that person is well, not as bad as you think.

Mostly because that person happens to be my effing friend. I like that person. A rare few I even consider family. I will defend him or her to you and I'll provide arguments based on clear evidence because I believe that you're a reasonable person who is capable of judging a person fairly. It's a sign of my respect to you.

On the other hand, when you act like a seven-year-old who is doing the teenage equivalent of crossing her arms and going "I don't want to friend you!" and then strutting off, I can't help but be offended. Granted, you honestly might not like that person, but as an adult (face it, we're eighteen.), I think it behooves you to be reasonable. To judge a person fairly based on who he/her is in RJC as opposed to primary or secondary school.

Tabula rasa - give people a chance. They're usually a hell lot more awesome than you think - I should know.

They're my friends for a reason.

And yes, it hurts like a bitch when you say that my friend is icky. Or annoying. Give me concrit. Base whatever you say on evidence. You were taught essay skills for a reason, after all. If you can tell me why you don't like a particular person, I can at least try to advice said person on how to change. And thus, you won't hate them so much!

Besides, I might actually have some traits in common with my friend and if you find them annoying and you tell me, I'll do my best to suppress those traits for you as well.

End of the day, I have a tremendous amount of respect for you people. I'm usually the one telling my friends in class and in my CCA that my juniors are some of the most talented people I know. That they are awesome and I love them.

I just wish that you lot would actually live up to it.

(I'm aware that most people don't read my blog, so spread this around. I will repeat it as many times as possible, but I don't want to get so angry that I end up yelling at you. Honest.)

Meme for 2008, based on this.
( This is how this year ends -  )

I know I haven't been keeping to the "things that have made me happy for ___ days" meme mainly because - I'll be honest here - I haven't been the happiest of troopers lately.

But this? This makes me feel warm and fuzzy and properly Christmasy:




I know I don't have the proper boots. Still.

I can hear the universe laughing at my hopelessness now. (chuckles)

Because I was tagged:

Things that made Sam happy (today and yesterday)
1. Not getting a pounding headache from coding yesterday. Might happen today after the rest start asking for edits, though.
2. Getting really cheap stuff from the AH on World of Warcraft.
3. Yesterday's baked pasta and peas with cheese made from leftover pasta and frozen peas. Turned out pretty edible for an improvised recipie, I have to say.