Wave Motion

2 weeks to exams! After a year, it's finally back to the good ole' days of counting down to exams! Haha, though it would be a pretty dumb thing to do at a tertiary level considering you have finals every 6 months. Still, it also means that the time to go back home draws nearer and nearer, and I'm praying damn hard that the stupid pig flu here doesn't get any worse. I'm not looking forward to being quarantined in any way.

It's been a pretty nice day.=)

We were going through something called Garden Path sentences in Linguistics the other day, and boy are they confusing. Take a look at these sentences:

The rat the cat the dog teased chased ate the cheese.
The elephant squeezed into a telephone booth collapsed.
He helped the old lady across the road.
Before the police stopped the driver panicked.
The pen the author the editor liked used was new.
The horse raced past the barn fell.

Which of the following would you consider grammatically correct?

...

Decided?

Guess what, they're ALL grammatically correct sentences. It's just that comprehending them requires more than our brain can provide sometimes. If you give them a read through again you'll be able to understand. Fun eh?

I feel like Noah

It's raining and raining and raining and raining... and raining.

Been raining for practically 48 hours, which is SWELL because I have no school for the rest of the week, (implying that I can actually cuddle up in my bed whilst people at uni get all cold and squishy... muhahaha)

=) Yay Rain rocks!

Toy Shopping

Forgot this photo the last time I posted. MASSIVE MAGIC MUSHROOM!!!! [Ok not magic, but perhaps genetically modified]

It REaLLY is larger than Siyi's head. She'll be eating it the entire week man!

Anyways, I went toy shopping on Friday for the symbolic play test I'm supposed to carry out on my kid next week. Toys are so expensive!! We spent a collective amount of $35 on toys, plus an additional $9 on books and stickers. At least I'm sharing the cost with a classmate from Speech, or I'd be $20 poorer and stuck with a whole bunch of toys. I must admit it was quite fun though, toy shopping is probably one of the more interesting shopping trips ever.
The collection of toys we spent about 2.5 hrs hunting down. The tea set was SUCh a pain finding, not to mention expensive. We needed a fork, knife, spoon cup and saucer. For some retarded reason, most tea sets just have two or three components of the set we need. Thank goodness we found this at Krazy Klark's (this kind of cheapo shop).It was seriously such a pain. Never felt so exhausted in my life. Shopping for a list of required toys is seriously not an easy task.

Anyways, I can finally say...

I'm home sick!!!

I hate getting those sudden bouts of homesickness when I'm doing my work, like...

Missing the blueberry buns from the bread shop downstairs

The funky smell of Plaza Singapura (it does have a really weird smell, really!)

Being able to sit at a hot, crowded kopi tiam eating lousy western food

Eating the AWESOME grilled chicken from the Marina Square food court and chilling with Feifei (we shall do that when I get back fei!).

Oo! Walking along the Esplanade

tapping my hideous EZ Link card on the musty 106

GROCERY SHOPPING with my family!! (I miss NTUC)

Where the word 'satay' means meat on sticks and not a fusion curry/peanut/sweet flavouring they put in the sauce and blend with mysterious things

Having unlimited use of the internet and not having to scrimp on Youtub-ing

Being able to call my friends when I want and wherever I want and not just see them on the screen

Just nuah-ing on my sofa watching recorded episodes of Hannah Montana (Omg I'm gonna spend a day watching all the episodes)

Rushing to grab a coffee and muffin at the East Coast Starbucks before church service at 9!

Having food portions that are of human proportions and not that of a giant's

Omg... MILO DINOSAUR/T-REX/GODZILLA/KING KONG!!

Jay walking! hehheh

having my laundry being done by my mum for meeee

The national library and the amazing breeze that goes through the building because of the air pocket created around the building. AND the smell of the library!

walking around in horrible ugly t-shirts and FBTs when I go down to buy stuff

The list goes on and on, I'm sorry if it bores you or makes you feel more homesick (for us who are far from home), but typing all this out actually helps me deal with it much better. It allows you to reminisce in a very sweet manner, the way you would look back and remember fond memories of your childhood or of someone. =)

I watched the Butterfly Effect again, I shall talk about that another time though, it'll probably be quite boring.

On of those sunset days at IH

Heenee

I'm free from exams/assignments until June! Which is... my favourite word...

AWESOME.

Anyways I feel bad for not giving a proper update in ages, I feel as if my life has been jiggled, swiggled, blended and swirled. Habits and routines have changed and it's frustrating how I can't get some things to go back to what it was a month ago. For instance the simple act of NOT falling asleep everyday after breakfast, (which is practically as good as waking up late) It's just something that bothers me, I strongly take pride in waking up at 630 everyday/

Talked to my mum today and she said,

'Eh, so how's the Heenee in Austraila?'

I was like, What?? What heenee?

'Heenee la, H1N1 virus!'

Hahha, apparently for the first few days of all the newspaper articles she thought that the virus was the HINI virus, damn hilarious!!! Trust my mum to be so full of nonsense! haha, she rocks.

Funfact of the day! Do you know English originates from a German dialect? That's why the two languages are actually so similar! (Go Mings for German!)

And do you know we have 8 bones just at our wrist? There were more funny things I've found out during our morning breakfast conversations with people studying various subjects, just that I can't remember them all.

Let's fight HEENEE together!!!!

=)