spring (cleaning) chicken!
ooooh, ooooh. just as i lifted my porcelain hands to type something in this box, my senior logged onto MSN. and i'm quite sure you know that when someone logs onto MSN you see their picture. and her picture's just grinned winsomely at me 5 seconds ago with her head stuck firmly next to her bf's neck. heh.
ah, the world's getting quite scandalous, innit? more and more of my MSN pals are popping up in my screen with their lovely counterparts! Congratulations, congratulations, people! :) love is indeed in the air. but beware, too much gaseous love can make you asphyxiate from "tou bu guo qi"-ing, or make your un-attached friends convulse in disgust or hatred or jealousy, or all of the above. as KN said this afternoon: "love, love, love. when there is love, nothing else matters. *swoons*" haha. this just proves my point - excessive love can blind and eventually, kill. not just the intellect but perhaps even the core structure of the person's initial persona, or psyche. I shall be watchful of my very inane character and guard it jealously away from the lethal arrows of Nasty Lil Cupid. haha :D ah of course the cynical would pooh-pooh my very lofty stand and declare that i haven't sunk deep enough into the perfumed hallucination to realise how stupid my statement is, but then i must insist that i would prove impervious to character sucking. Yes. in case of compelling pressure, i'd much rather ditch the guy, who obviously doesn't deserve me, than my unique self.
actually the most important reason for guarding my psyche is to provide a continuous supply of lame jokes for all my kakis! heh ^_^ see, i'm so noble. someone please whack me off the pedestal with a split-ended broom :)
today i uncovered many many dustballs worth of memories :) some were good ole nostalgic ones that made me smile, some simply made me sigh in regret. like the thick stack of "kingdom animalia - case study of the Homo Sapiens" notes for Bio Olympiad training. i noted wryly to my mum that i managed to qualify for the training squad for both the Bio Olympiad and Biomed Quiz, it's just a series of unfavourable events that led to my eventual no-show in the representing teams. i found the Judo Graduation Night Invitations 2004, which made me smile as i recalled how panicked we were when Sir threw a tantrum in the dojo and refused to attend the ball simply because we were 24hrs late in preparing his card. haha. the 4 of us huddled in a sweaty heap after training to discuss who should be the scapegoat to plead with the fuming Sir :) eventually i think we all went together, and he grudgingly took the card. and this made me think of the numerous gelling randori sessions (where all the seniors would sound like pasar malam hawkers yelling when they stretched out their calls to GUARD and JIAYOU), the great matwork sparring sessions when i specially tekan-ed this bratty, snobbish, utterly haughty and spoilt sec 1 shrimp who actually WHINED when i broke her defence and pinned her down (every single time). and her other sec 1 batchmates would cheer me on secretly by rolling close to our mini scuffle and winking at me. then Sir would pretend not to see me crushing the pancake filling out of the nasty brat- i believe that he disliked her attitude, too. haha :) and of course the time when i sparred with jacq for a place in team, where i tried my best to imagine her as my mum's mother (the one that i want to kill), but just simply couldn't muster enough courage to really throw her. in fact i even wanted to just give up when she pinned me down twice, but both times Sir called mate. then miraculously she lost her balance when i tried my n-th ippon-seonage so i got the only score in the spar, a yuko. i couldn't quite look her in the eye after the session ended, just pretended to concentrate on dabbing the trickling blood off my various fingers (where the skin tore from the grasping). made a very bloody mess out of my gi that day, haha :)
i also found quite a few notepads, and realised my intrinsic calling to be a karung-guni man :) heh. really. i even found a white pad that went yellow - even though it was still in the plastic wrapping. haha. i shall use them slowly in uni - quite sure i'll find occasions to stick ears out of reference books or thick notes :)
ah! i wish i could repeat my years at random :) just try to leave out the blighted ttrr and those 8 operations :) ah. but i would argue: without them, i probably wouldn't realise just how much better off i already am, and how far my potential can be. regardless of my future career, i guess i'll still stick to being good old me :) and you guys are going to be my psyche police - once you detect imminent threats to my character, tell me straightaway before it actually happens! :D
by the way, i'll be expecting a reply from the HR manager from TTSH on monday regarding my application for an attachment, so LL if you're interested in poking around for a taste of medicine for 2 months, pls let me know by sms so i can arrange for you, k? :)