curses. the last post i was typing closed upon itself because my clumsy fingers accidentally pressed something somewhere and now the post is lost forever in the deep recesses of cyberspace. joy. i thought the same happened to my previous post but somehow blogger.com managed to save it despite their absolute malfunction when i was trying to publish it. hooray for technology, boon of our lives and saviour of the world.

ok mike, you're seriously deranged.

today was a regular thursday in any case, with my mental faculties at the start of the day in prime condition and ending with the capacity of about a two-yr-old. my day only starts proper after 1245, if one dismisses the incongruous econs tutorial in the morning, and carries on into the late afternoon.

history lecture today was exceptionally boring, because edna tan was trying to rush through the notes, meaning she not only read off the notes, but skimmed through the points haphazardly as well. history s brightened my day as always, with sayers covering the nature of the superpowers. then came cook and his ominous econs lessons. our displacement by some upstart JC1 Physics H3 class meant that poor us had to squeeze into an under-sized container classroom. so now, half my butt is hurting because i had to share a table and chair with left-handed george on my left. waha. to make matters worst, mr cook outdid himself and managed to cover half the lesson in 2.5 hrs, with the lesson ending promptly at 6pm.

so, 6pm. i briefly adios-ed princess off to dinner, had a nice chat with george and tash and ended up at yoshi in PP for dinner and study. well, i had dinner, but there were too many distractions to study. i saw a lesbian couple snogging in the hidden corner of yoshi, then "you're beautiful" and "bad day" played simultaneously [i don't know whether to laugh or cry whenever i hear james blunt's infamous guit riff]. to make matters worse, my brain refused to assimilate what little of the virtues of Theory of Income Determination and Employment i was trying to absorb. saturation, i think.

i decided to stroll around PP for half an hour and watched people read books in MPH, admire the way water sploshes about in the fountain and lose myself in the urban crowd that defines singapore. i finally sat myself at starbucks to sip a java chip frap, watching pedestrians jaywalk while actually understanding Keynesian income theory.

on that note, i feel a strange mix of absurdity and disbelief as i see myself transform magically from a toad into a muggertoad [sorry, inside joke]. it's as if the virtues of singapore society have ingrained themselves into my thick skull and i'm beginning to appreciate the beauty of burying my head int notes and books.

well, not really actually. i don't ever feel like i'm studying, maybe except for today. i enjoy understanding econs and history, because i find the thought-process and analytical skills involved very useful and practical. and i like the subject matter [esp for history] too. that helps. pity i'll be giving history up as an academic subject in uni :(

sidenote: i have the strangest studying techniques. if you ever catch me studying for more than 15min at a time, i've either fallen asleep and you have't noticed, or you're looking at the wrong person. i flip through my notes on market structures for about 5min, look around and watch grass grow, take a walk to the toilet, come back, sit down and read for another 5-10min before analysing the coffee stains on the table for another 5min. fine, fine, castigate me for my sheer attention deficit, but i can't sit down and mug! life is too interesting and distracting, and it'd be such a pity to miss all that because you have to spend 3hrs of your life being tested on stuff you'll never need to rmbr again. anyway, distraction helps your mind focus. or for me at least. argh. i'm weird.

AH. it's 945 already. kai called, so i was momentarily distracted for a while [ah yes, one of the few distractions that i cannot handle well with studying]. and i need to shower and sleep because methinks i'm running on a sleep deficit. random shoutout to ling and saiful, my fellow cheapskates! love you guys! ok that was very random. like my humpty dumpty drawing on my econs notes. ARGH. ok. sleep. sleep sleep sleep.