Tuesday, October 23, 2007
I'm writing this because I'm feeling very desperate and miserable now.
My promos results wasn't up to my expectations, and I'm finally back to the era of failing every humanities subject there is. Really, economics is no better than history.
After many days of amnesia I finally emailed my mentor, and the reply I got might be the worst one there is. I think he's a bit angry at me for disappearing for so long (I regret it too now); his reply was short and straightforward. He simply told me that I could only go and continue with my project after 15th November.
The deadline for the submission of first draft of the report is on the 16th. November, not December.
I think if I tell him that he'll just be more angry. But I shall tell him that because I'm gonna beg with him to let me go and do the experiments.
I feel so miserable now I can just cry.
Nini @ 9:22 PM
Tuesday, October 09, 2007
Actually this happened few days ago but I decided to blog about it anyways.
Amazingly my xiao qiang didn't die, even though it was held captive in a cup for 3 days without food. And no, I didn't drown it. How could I do such a thing? I'm such a kind person. It would prolly be scurrying through rubbish bins looking for food at this very moment.
It's now free, not because of me but because of my mum. She had wanted me to get rid of xiao qiang. She had been nagging for days (actually it's only one day, but it feels like a month). Then at last, I decided to get rid of it because I could tolerate her nags any longer. Picking it up with the cup and some old magazine, I was going to dump it into the rubbish chute. Coincidentally my mum was also going to throw away rubbish, so she told me to throw xiao qiang into the rubbish bag instead. I told her it would crawl out, but since she insisted I wouldn't say no.
Then everything happened so fast. Mum shrieked, dropped the rubbish bag, and xiao qiang took flight. It ran away so quickly that I wasn't able to catch it. In a blink of an eye it was gone. My mum was in a state of panic. I didn't know whether to laugh or to be angry. I had told her multiple times that it could crawl out if she throws it into the rubbish bag.
Off-topic : PW is making me feel like a cockroach.
Nini @ 8:57 PM
Wednesday, October 03, 2007
Yesterday night I saw it in my bathroom. It scared me because when I was peeing it suddenly scrambled out from behind the toilet bowl. Alarmed, I threw a book at it. It crawled out from beneath the book and ran amok in my bathroom. It ran nearer to the bathroom door and I stared at it, daring it to go into my bedroom. And it did. I was pissed, so I threw another book at it. It crawled out from beneath the book again and ran amok in my bedroom. I chased it around my bedroom and finally back into the bathroom. I closed the door to trap it inside. After an hour I went back and saw it lying on the floor 四脚朝天. I decided that I will deal with its corpse tomorrow morning.
This morning I opened the toilet door and saw it dancing around in my bathroom. I was quite awed but decided to get rid of it once and for all anyways. Because I didn't want to touch it with my hands (usually I will just pick any bug up with tissue and throw it down the building; I live on the 28th storey), I placed a cup over it. Just when I was thinking how I'm supposed to pick it up without touching it and without it escaping, I was reminded of an experiment I've learnt in primary school. The experiment was about teaching you that plants take in carbon dioxide and give out oxygen. It included 2 belljars; one containing a single insect, one containing an insect and a plant. The result of the experiment was that after a few days the insect in the first belljar died while the second one is still alive. I thought it would be fun to see how long it could stay alive in the cup without any plants, hoho. Then I went to bathe. When I came out, it was still alive (I might have bathed for at least 45 minutes). I shook the cup and it scrambled hysterically in the cup. Amused, I went out to eat lunch.
Just a minute ago I decided to visit it again. It was still alive. I shook the cup again, but this time it merely twitched its feelers. Looks like it won't last for another hour or two, hohoho.
Now I'm torn between just suffocating it like this or drowning it in my toilet bowl. Either seems really fun.
Nini @ 2:58 PM
Monday, October 01, 2007
I had a partially happy birthday. Partially, because I didn't really have the birthday kind of feeling, and we finished the cake in one day, haix. And the other box of mooncakes (that hasn't even been opened) got all mouldy and my mum dumped it all. I was heartbroken, of course. Maybe that's why I slacked alot throughout the weekend, now I only have today to study for bio properly.
It's kinda weird because after chem it really feels as if the promos is over. That's why I slacked alot. Prolly it's because chem was too traumatising. Well, I guess I can't bet on bio to be any easier than chem.
I really wanted to make a new layout, I've already chosen the picture I wanna use and am really inspired. The only thing I need now is time. Nevertheless, I would have loads of time after the promos, yay. And I'm gonna make lots of icons and such, oh I just can't wait!
I'm writing this post because I don't want to study bio. I guess I better get back to studying bio now.
Nini @ 12:50 PM