G is for Gone

Well, Jon my roommate's out for the weekend, it's his turn to go to Charleston, which means that i've the room to myself and my nonsense till Sunday. Was intending to spend a good portion of this time relaxing, since i don't have much work to do. A good portion of that relaxing would have been spent on the guitar - as you know a friend David from IV here loaned me his guitar till i leave the Hill - during my time-wasting yesterday i managed to learn how to play 關懷方式 [btw i just cut-n-pasted that from the page i learnt how to play it from - you think i actually know how to use special software to type that - some more it's in whatchacallit - fan(2) ti(3) zi(4) rite...] [and for those who like me would otherwise be unable to read that it's guan(1) huai(2) fang(1) shi(4), the Chen Hanwei/Cai Lilian getai show song] [and just as a disclaimer - i learnt how to play it, full stop. Not how to play it well...] [just to note that this is the first time that chinese characters have appeared here - go buy 4D!] [and this is just plain boliao, but i've never used so many square brackets in quick succession before either] - well, as i was saying, i was playing something just now - ironically think it was supposed to be a quiet worship song, the exact song i've forgotten - when the G string snapped *boing*. Hmm so well that was the end of that - feel bad about snapping it especially when it wasn't mine (and i don't know how to restring a guitar), but David said it wasn't a problem. Sigh...

Well, maybe that was God's way of telling me that i should be finishing my work and starting on revision for finals which begin in exactly eight days' time instead - so i'll try and garner enough motivation to do that really soon - and if i'm really hard up to play - can still do so without the wayward string... And in any case, it's great that God has provided me with the guit in the first place - yeah thankfulness in all circumstances...

I thought that birthday surprises had come to an end for me but yesterday night Clement, Jeremy, SJ and Weichang got a cake for me from Cold Stone - a whole bunch of us were there to say farewells to one another - yeah that was really nice of them, and the fact that my throat was then still somewhat not 100% yet did not deter me from finishing a big slice of Chocolate Mint Ice-Cream Cake...

And speaking of farewells, yuppers it's not long before i'll be gone from here and probably won't see many of the people i've encountered here again - but well, at least there's other ways to keep in touch rite... And that also provides a perfect excuse for a return visit sometime soon as well =p

Tomorrow i'm going for my first UNC basketball game - it's the Tar Heels v. UK (U of Kentucky, not United Kingdom) - should be a good game, which we should win =) - this year's the first year they're trying out a lottery system for bball tickets - people register online and then they either get tickets or they don't based on the tickets available and how many people register. Demand eternally outstrips supply, btw. And for once i've been rather successful in these sort of things - of the four games i've bidded for so far, i got tickets to three of them - while there are others who haven't gotten a single one... Normally i never win anything... But anyways, previously they had some kind of bracelet/first-come-first-served system where people would line up outside the Dean Dome (the bball arena here) from 6am in the morning - kinda like how S'poreans like it best methinks - but they've done away with that - and a lot of die hards have protested - reminds me a bit of what they did with ndp tickets a couple of years back - well i must say that at least for me the draw of UNC bball is greater for me than is the draw for ndp by far...

Btw pics from b'day/Thanksgiving/Charleston are all up over there =======>

Looks like i ought to get started on work then,,,