Thursday, October 26, 2006
Apparently to get excepted into Oxford/Cambridge (a.k.a Oxbridge) you have to go through an interview where they ask you a series of weirdo questions. I couldn't believe it until I read it. These are just a few examples:
1. Was Hitler really Evil? - you think leh?
2. Isn't all golf based on luck? - If so, Tiger Woods must be pretty lucky
3. What is wrong with the sentence "here comes Bob"? - you forgot to add the words "THE BUILDER"
4. Why do things have names? - It would save us from wasting saliva saying, "pass me the grey long thing with the round pushy-thingys on it" instead of just the "remote"
5. Why could you not time a pendulum for 1000 swings by watching it with a timer? - you would get bored
See here: http://www.oxbridgeapplications.com/questions.pdf for the full list.
*Thanks to The Age for this information
Yinny was Joshing around @ 11:10 AM
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Tuesday, October 24, 2006
I told Syl yesterday that I feel as if I've hit a brick wall. I was doing ok at first and then now there's just 6 days left and 3 papers to sit for next week...suddenly I feel lost. I honestly considered giving up and just turning up for the papers and doing them without preparing for them (might as well not go right). I'm such a wuss. Suddenly going into uni, everything has become such a breeze that I've turned into a wuss...or even more of a wuss if you like. We used to be able to wake up at 6am to go for class and stay in school till 5pm...take 8 subjects and have so many exams in a row...Suddenly in uni you're so pampered and you can't even wake up at 9am anymore...you can't even take 3 exams in a week. What happened? We've gone soft. I've gone soft. What am I even doing in uni? I don't even like to study. Damnnit. I just want to rot.
Even my music is boring. I've been listening to the same boring crap and I'm so bored of it. Even the new songs are boring. So many people have been coming up with boring albums. Sighz. Clay Aiken came up with his new album...it's not bad because Clay's voice is AWESOME but they are all covers (or mostly covers) - which I don't really like...Why can't he sing his own songs? He's got "When I see you smile", "Everything I do I do it for you" etc...But my 2 favourite songs are "A Thousand Days" and "Lonely No More"...I'm not sure if they are covers because I've never heard the originals but they're really nice and the lyrics are so sad. I want to marry him so he can sing for me all day *lolz*.
Michy came down under from KL yesterday for her graduation and we surprised her with a cake in the restaurant cuz it was her b'day the day before. It got a bit embarrassing when the waiter started singing as well. But it was great catching up.
I probably won't be blogging until my exams come along. Good luck to all people having exams now!!! Looking forward to going back and having a good holiday!!!
Yinny was Joshing around @ 1:23 PM
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Sunday, October 15, 2006
15 more days to go till dooms day. I hate this time of the year. While I'm here stressing my guts out, my sister and cousins in secondary school have already finished exams/are going to finish exams next week & are rubbing it in my face. DARN IT. Others are going to the Wang Li Hong concert. DOUBLE DARN IT. I'd do ANYTHING to go to that concert. Well, almost anything.
Sushi-making was a success. And the cooking spree continues.
Yinny was Joshing around @ 11:00 AM
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Sunday, October 08, 2006
HAPPYHAPPYHAPPY 21st BIRTHDAY TO JUICE!!!
Geeze...when we first met we just celebrated our 15th birthdays. Now we're 21. Amazing how time flies huh.
Yinny was Joshing around @ 9:21 PM
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I'm not quite sure what's come over me lately. I think the stress from exams is starting to kick in. But then again...it's strange because I don't feel like I have the urge to study. My books are just sitting at the corner of my desk staring at me. I feel strangely calm and relaxed when I look at them. Conversely, this sudden urge to cook and bake has left me clueless as to what is causing it.
We went over to Sang's house today to cook briyani and chilli chicken. It was superb. The process is slightly onerous but the end product was worth all the effort. And what's dinner without dessert hey? So I decided to get (much to Syl's disgust) muffin and cupcake mix (I felt the sudden urge to bake see). I wanted to make them from scratch but we didn't have much time so we had to use pre-mixes instead. Came out exactly the way we wanted it. Scrumptious.
I'm making sushi tomorrow. It's not easy either, but I love sushi. I should have been born a Japanese. I love their cuisine lol. It is already pretty tedious the way my mom makes it but I just realised that my mom has been taking the short cut all this while (unknowingly of course). Normally she would just cook the rice and then add vinegar into it and mix it. I just realised that even just cooking the rice is a long process. You have to heat the vinegar, sugar and salt in a pan and mix them. Then when the rice is cooked, you have to be careful not to break the grains whilst mixing so you have to fold the rice slowly whilst pouring in the vinegar mixture little by little. And all the while you must fan it too so that the rice cools down and all that crap. MANNNN!!! So I have to do that tomorrow.
Cooking is theraputic. And I love cooking for friends. Exams are coming so we all have to keep our energy up. In literature, cooking symbolises love.
We have to go to that nice park for a bbq soon as well. And Thilini's making a seafood dinner for us after she submits her thesis. NO ONE misses out when Thilini cooks because 1. she hardly cooks cuz she has no time, and 2. she's the master chef.
Michy, when you come back, we will prepare a scrumptious dinner for you as well.
Yinny was Joshing around @ 8:49 PM
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Thursday, October 05, 2006
Stupid me. I fell for it again.
I feel like a donkey being led by a carrot. Again.
I'm not sure I want the carrot so I reject it.
But the carrot keeps coming near me. Tempting me to take a bite.
So I consider it.
But when I'm finally ready to take a bite...
It pulls itself away.
And I'm left standing there like a stupid idiot.
Such an ass right?
What a fool I am.
I knew it would happen but I willingly walked right into the trap. Again.
Now what am I going to do?
I have to pick up the pieces by myself again. Again.
Why does this always happen to me?
I must have asked for it. Again.
I am so pathetic.
Yinny was Joshing around @ 8:51 PM
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