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Well, well, well.

Happy birthday to me.

My birthdays have been sorely unexciting this past few years. I think the older you get, the less of a big deal your birthday becomes. That said, I think that I definitely should plan something fun for next year. Heh. ‘Cos y’know, it’s almost mandatory that you do something crazy on your 21st.

So, yes. It has been an uneventful day. I’m such a boring person. Heh.

And well, unfortunately, there was no nekkid!Chad!fun. There was, however, nekkid!Chad!thoughts. Heehee.

If you’re seeing the gorgeous Prince William, then all’s well. If not, I suggest hitting ‘refresh’.

I’ve had this layout in the works for ages, and finally, I’ve finished doing all the HTML crap and it’s up! And to think that my William craze began back in June. Heh. But he’s so pretty. *pets Will layout* This one will probably stay up for a while. ;)

If you’ve noticed, I’ve put up some pictures. Thumbnails are to your left. They’re mostly pictures taken while babySam was here. She’s such an adorable baby.

* * *One week to Dance Reflections. I can’t wait for it to be over, actually. Mainly because I have so much school stuff to do, and I need all the time I can get. I have a presentation in two weeks, and I’m wondering how the heck I’m gonna get it done because next week is jam-packed already. Gaaah.

Anyway. I’m kinda excited about DR. A little afraid that I might screw up, which would be bad. But mostly, I’m excited. Heehee.

* * *I watched the VMAs yesterday. I’m happy for Justin and his three Moonmen, because he totally deserves them especially for CMAR (which is a fuckin’ brilliant song with a fuckin’ brilliant video). And then I went to LJ, and apparently some people were pissed that he didn’t thank *NSYNC. To which, I went “Ehhhh.” Seriously, some people take things way too serious. I’m a little worried about the status of the group, but I don’t think that Jup not thanking them means anything. Geez. But I must say that the boy looked yummy in that suit. Mmmm.

Was pissed that the femme kissing was censored. Grrrr. And dude, Madonna looked hot yo. (My mom was griping about how they’re the same age but Madonna looks so good. Heh.)

Hilary Duff pisses me off. She is waaay too perky. But for some reason, I’m not averse to the Olsen twins. Hmm.

The Coldplay performance rocked. That was the one I enjoyed the most. The one I enjoyed the least was probably 50 Cent.

Eminem is hot. Especially when he’s wearing glasses.

Heh.

* * *For some reason, after the VMAs, the Making the Video for ‘Like I Love You’ was aired. I had seen it before, but hey, I’m not one to not watch a Justin thingy even though I’ve seen it already. Heh.

I am a sucker. Really. Because that half hour totally got me back into the Jup-love. Gaaah. He is just too cute. My mom was saying, “He’s such a nice guy.”

So, yes. It seems like I’ll forever be a Justin-girl. (Not that that’s a bad thing. Heh.)

* * *I’m desperate need of goodfic to read. It’s been a while. Sigh.

I have no idea when I’m gonna get around to writing. Eeeek.

* * *Some overdue Freaky Friday gushing:

Despite the uglyhair, Chad looked cuuuute. Hee. The singing made me cringe and laugh (seriously, the thought of it just makes me wanna laugh), but that was somehow cute too. The Tess-stalking was a little freaky, but he was attracted to her personality! Gaah. What more can a girl ask? (Well, a girl can ask for some big-screen nekkidness; alas, this is a Disney movie. Heh.)

And the movie was fun. Jamie Lee Curtis was a riot- she got the teenager thing down pat. The acting really made you believe that they had switched personalitites; it was seamless.

So, I had a great time watching it, and not just because of Chad. ;)

Can’t believe I forgot to say this during my last blog:

Happy birthday Chad!

*twirls*

*wonders if there was any nekkid fun*
Hmm… shouldn’t I be wishing for nekkid!Chad!fun on my birthday? Heeheee. ;)

*goes back to my readings*

These last 2 weeks have been hectic, to say the least. Between going to school, doing school-related work, dance and a myriad of other things, I was exhausted. I have a feeling it’s just gonna get worse.

Tutorials start next week, which means that I’ll have an even bigger pile of readings to do. My attachment will begin proper, which means I’ll have even less free time. I have dance rehearsals for the next two weeks, until showtime, and technical runs will begin the week after next and they’ll run til late at night.

So, for the next two weeks, I’m going to be unbelievably busy. I get a headache just thinking about it.

* * *Freaky Friday was fuuuun. (I want to gush, but my brain has fallen asleep. Will gush tomorrow or something. Heh.)

* * *And now, I sleep.

*yawn*

Two weeks into the semester, and I’m skipping a lecture. I’m a horrible student. (I’m still feeling a little guilty though.)

But I have a perfectly rational reason (Hah!). Freaky Friday opens today (Yay!) and I’m gonna watch it with Cal. If I go for my lecture, we’ll have to catch the 7.30 show, which means that I’ll probably be home at 10-ish, 11. That’s not too great since I have to wake up at 8am tomorrow for my 3 back-to-back lectures. Conversely, if I skip my lecture, we can watch the earlier show which means I’ll be home earlier and thus can get more sleep. A sleep-deprived Liza is a cranky Liza. Heh.

Plus, I have to get a gift for my mom! (Today’s her birthday) And I still don’t know what to get her. Gaaaah.

This has been a miserable, exhausting week.

I’ll be on attachment with a civil organisation as part of my Civil Society module. And from Tuesday to Friday, we had meetings with each of the 4 organisations to get to know about what they do and what we can do for them as part of the attachment. The meetings all started at 7pm and usually lasted until 9. And it was just so tiring. I hardly had time to think; it was wake up, go for classes, hang around until it was time for the meetings, sit through 2 hours of that and then go home and sleep. It just completely wore me out.

* * *And just when I was glad that Friday was over and that I’d have time to rest, I remembered that my friends were having a party/gathering on Saturday that I had agreed to go to.

It turned out to be fun, actually. We went grocery shopping before heading to Valerie’s house. Then came the comedy of errors as we tried to cook. Heh. That was quite amusing. But it didn’t turn out too badly; the food tasted pretty good.

* * *So, I’ve pretty much been busy this entire week, which is such a shock to my system after 3 months of bumming around. And, the horrible thing is, I still have things to do for Monday!

Sigh. We’re having a little debate in class, and I was supposed to do research… but time was so scarce that I didn’t manage to. I’ve been trying to do it today… but my brain just isn’t working 100%. And I just feel really guilty for not having it done already and sending it off to the rest of my group. Gaaah. Then I have my IVLE assignment to do before 1am tonight, and readings that must be read before class.

Sigh.

Then comes Monday… and the craziness will start all over again.

Because Priya thought this should be quoted somewhere. Heh.

Liza: Ah, this has been a good day. A Surya AND Jamie update
Priya: I know!
Liza: Crap. All this lovely Trory fic makes me miss Tristan even more than usual.
Priya: Yesterday I went to see Romeo and Juliet in the park.
Priya: And I kept my bitterness to A minimum and kept down the urges to stand up and shout, “Tristan, come back!”
Priya: The Romeo had blonde hair and blue eyes.
Priya: It was killing me! Gah.
Liza: Eeek
Liza: Damnit. They should have let him stay long enough to act as Romeo. We were cheated. Cheated!
Priya: Damnit. We were! They deserved at least ONE kiss!
Priya: But when Tristan does come back–they should have an ep where Rory can be Juliet in some college thinger.
Priya: And he can finally kiss her as her Romeo!
Liza: Heehee
Liza: *starts chant* Fail OTH, fail!
Liza: I feel so bad for wishing ill on Chad.
Priya: That’s my desire.
Priya: For it to fail.
Priya: But, I can’t help it.
Priya: Chad is mean to be Tristan!
Liza: It’s all for the greater good!
Priya: And reunite with Rory!
Priya: It’s his destiny!

Today has been a long day.

Looong day.

* * *I planned on waking up at 10am… but I was so tired (I only got to bed at 4!) that I kept hitting snooze until I finally dragged myself out of bed at 11. My dad looked at me and went, “Don’t you have school?”.

Arrived in school at 1-ish, because I needed to photocopy and read my notes for my first class, which was at 4. Alas, the file of notes wasn’t in the room. Which pissed me off. Grrrr. I kept going back to check very half hour or so but the file remained elusive. Which really pissed me off.

Had lunch with Cal at Gecko and hung around at the Forum to kill time.

Then finally, at around 3.30, I left for my class, without having read the damn readings. Gaaah.

The class itself, my Civil Society module, wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. I thought I’d feel completely lost but, to my relief, I found that not everyone was as knowledgeable as I expected (although there were some who really knew their stuff!). And our tutor made the subject matter quite approachable and fun to talk about.

So, I’ve done a complete 180: I’m actually quite enthused about that module now, despite my initial apprehensions. :)

* * *After school, I was supposed to have dinner with my family. But they weren’t meeting til 7.30 so I had about half an hour to kill. I ended up at Starbucks, with a Caramel Macchiato, reading PoA. Heh.

We had dinner at Seoul Garden and man, I stuffed myself. It was my first time eating there so it was fun. Heehee. The whole DIY cooking is a little tiresome though. But it was gooood.

* * *I’m tired. Need sleep.

Sigh.

In an attempt to distract myself from my mom’s nagging (seriously, she’s going on about how I need to clean my room, blahblahblah), I’m doing the Friday Five.

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In the last week, I’ve tried to blog a few times but my browser always froze before I was finished. IE can be such a bitch sometimes.

* * *I’m actually feeling apprehensive about school. I’m like dreading it, which is slightly surprising. I’ve never before been overly excited about going back to school, but neither have I felt this impending sense of doom. Okay, maybe I’m being dramatic; not doom per se, but there’s uneasy feeling in the pit of my stomach. It doesn’t quite make sense though; it would have been understandable had I felt this way lasy year when I was a freshman.

I think all this nervousness is because of the classes I’m taking. I have no idea what I’m in for, and I guess the fear of the unknown is kicking in. I’m especially worried about my Civil Society module: the workload seems pretty big, there’s an attachment involved and the subject matter seems pretty overwhelming right now. To make it worse, it’s my first class on Monday and I don’t wanna look like an idiot at the first lesson. On the other hand, I’ve heard some pretty good things about the professor -about how brilliant he is and how he makes classes interesting and challenges you to think.

And I think my self-inflicted pressure to do really well this semester is rearing its ugly head. It’s not the end of the world if I don’t bring my CAP up; but I really want to.

This queasy feeling will probably pass soon enough, but as of now, I’m feeling distinctly worried.

* * *It’s difficult to believe that 3 months of holidays have passed. I hardly did anything! A part of me is glad to have something to do with my time, once school starts, but I’ll miss sleeping in the wee hours of the morn and waking up late and catchign my daily dose of Oprah. No more spending hours online (Well, okay… there’ll be less online time, but I’m not gonna cut myself off completely. That would be madness).

* * *I got my hair cut on Tuesday. I now have bangs. Heh. I have mixed feelings about them: sometimes I like them and other times, I wish my hair would grow faster. Tsk. But for the most part, I’m happy with it. I’ll be happier when they grow out a little. ;)

* * *There’s a bunch of things I need to do before Monday, but naturally, I haven’t gotten round to doing most of them. Sigh.

I was planning to write this weekend, but it seems like that’s not gonna happen. I was also planning on putting up my new William layout, but I don’t feel like dealing wth HTML. I haven’t felt like doing anything constructive today, so I ended up doing nothing more than napping and reading. Damn, I’m such a bum. Heh.

* * *There’s a new layout at Ad Astra. It features my favourite HP character- Draco Malfoy. Heehee. So hot, he is. :)

* * *My mom bought a digital camera sometime last week. It’s the Canon I-XUS 400, which is a lovely little thing. :D So once I’ve gotten around to transferring them to my computer, I’ll put some of them up. And I show off my cute little niece!

* * *I still can’t get over the Clowns’ Philimination. Sniff. Damnit, all it took was some Korean fog to derail them! They were the most competent racers and they deserved a top three spot. They should have won it all, negating whiny!undeserving!Flo’s win last year and proving that good guys can win the Race. Grrrr.

They ran a good Race; they were just bit in the ass by their one and only major mistake. Sigh. Their final words on the Mat made me all weepy-ish. Sniff. Oh, the injustice!

Now, I have no one to root for. I can’t decide which of the three left I’d like to win.

* * *ETA: Happy belated birthday to Hani, who turns the big 21! :)

Fuck.

The damned 4th-place-curse lives on.

Sob. It was nice knowing you, Clowns.