Well that's it. All my work is done!

I am checking in to say that we are having trouble being motivated. I've just finished a 2000 word film essay, and it took longer than it should have, and it wasn't as good as it should have been. I haven't handed it in yet, but I have no energy to resurrect the patient. Which really shouldn't be the case. Housemate Dave hasn't even reached the halfway point yet.

Easter break ends this weekend, then it's back to work. You know that feeling you get after the June holidays, and you have to go back to school, and it's bloody depressing, and you wish you could just stay home. Well in University I finally have the freedom to not go, and I feel like exercising it. The next 4 weeks is going to be pretty harsh, I'm hoping to get all my work done by early May, instead of late May where the deadlines are. There are several reasons for this.

1) I love being ahead.
2) I've done it before, end of last term, and it was hell, but I got good grades, and I love being ahead.
3) I love being guailan to other people who are not as ahead as I am.
4) I'm a worst-case scenario kinda guy. I always fear falling ill before a deadline, where the work hasn't been done yet. Then I'd be fucked. And so not ahead.
5) I want time to spend with someone when she's in the neighborhood around May.

Reasons not to do it:
1) Tired.
2) Nintendo DS.
3) Not feasible.

About the last one... I have more work to do this time than I did last term, which makes it really scary. I think it would take 2 weeks of intensive everyday writing to get it all done. And I'm not even half-ready to start one of the big essays yet, which means reading time. Which means I'd have to start like now. Sigh.

Here is my guailan timetable:

Mon - Free
Tue - Free
Wed - 10 to 1 is Modern British Fiction, 1 to 3 is Film screening.
Thu - 1 to 4 is Film class.
Fri - Free

Okay I'm going back to the UK for the last time as far as I know! Hope the work doesn't kill me. Lets keep up blogging, flends!

Farewell Cher!

Have fun, don't play games (I think Bryan will start sooner), and come online lah. What's this off the grid for 9 months nonsense. It's cheap if you just chat and surf. I've been told to tell you not to smoke too much weed. Joking hor!

Bye! Blog here more! I'm gonna start again. We need to get Bryan into the habit. What kinda student is reluctant to write on a daily basis?

it really has been ages since i blogged here. i've kinda forgotten what we were trying to achieve in the first place! maybe it will be clearer after cher (and bryan) leave. i think it was chronicling our lives in different cities, as students? maybe we were supposed to see how different we'd become. or compare how life was different in all our places, outside of singapore. i think that's really simple.

essential truths:
1) it's friggin' cold.
2) we eat crap.

optional:
in my case, the city is flat and dirty. there are no places to do anything fun, and if there are, they are inaccessible. you are left to drink, and see movies (if you can find anyone who will stop drinking). nothing stays open past the early evening. some cities are luckier than others in this respect. i was just reading about an awesome 24 hour peking duck restaurant in tokyo.

This from ting's blog shows that IKEA US is really slow, unreliable, and all those negative things. Alex, can you get a refund on the stuff you've ordered? Or else you might need to think about contingency plans for the next 3 weeks until stuff gets delivered.