phew

After agonising for the longest time over my very abstract Thailand essay, on top of tackling yet another of those darned el quizzes and handling loads of other school and other stuff, i can now breathe a semblance of a sigh of relief.

As of today, the only ca stuff that i have left to do is show face and open mouth for one more tutorial, attempt to spoil the market again for my forum participation, write a journal entry or two and to smoke my way through for two minutes or so for my part of a group presentation.

Yup, no more essays and no more tests (apart from that of the individual physical proficiency variety, which is, horror of horrors, in all of eight days time... *looks around in vain for a pull up bar*) for this sem, now it is the season of catching up on the ever-growing stockpile of readings and scrambling to recall and revise content from lectures of long ago. Yup, 'tis the season to be mugging aiyayayayayayayaya...

Today was particularly taxing for me, having finally finished the aforementioned essay at twelvish in the morning, then revising for the quiz thingy, taking a brief five-hour repose, then heading for school to attend a lecture, take the quiz, then prepare for and subsequently attend two consecutive tutorials ,before rushing off again to the library to watch "The Year of Living Dangerously" for a history module (supposedly set in Indonesia, but lots of the 'bahasa' dialogue was in fact in tagalog), then to a refreshing time at cg, then to fong seng, where managed to eat with the dinos Kevin and Ade Wan, then getting on the 10 and finally arriving home at 2340 hrs, more than 16 hours since leaving it.

I am very thankful to God for my schedule, which was never too much for me, and which, by His grace, was rather tahan-able. After cg just now where we talked about complaining, i realised that i really have precious little to complain about... Thank God!

One unfortunate side-effect of this recent piah-ing phase: i've been eating far too much. Of course, it's hard not to when i had chosen to plop myself in the arts canteen, where readily-accessible food abounds. Spending $5 a day on food has not been an uncommon occurence over much of this time period. Today, after already eating fried rice at fong seng for dinner, i went back home and polished off one six-inch pizza, generous helpings of potato salad, and half the frontquarters of a chicken, with cereal and milk to end the meal (my parents bought this funky french cereal from Carrefour qui s'appelle "Stylesse Choco" - its basically rice flakes with a generous helping of dark chocolate shavings ... yum - post honey bunches of oats has a serious rival for my serial cereal affections now...) (i never eat cereal for breakfast since i don't eat breakfast - hence eating it at such odd hours in the day...)

I suppose that i really ought to be exercising, of not for the upcoming (and much dreaded) ippt then at least to burn off all this excess food and its residual effects. Hopefully tomorrow, if weather permits, and in celebration of my temporal liberation from schoolwork, i shall go for a swim/ run / both =)