Gerri is going to be damn evil now.

Please look away from the screen if you're not feeling particularly forgiving; I shall not be held responsible for any irritation which you may experience hereafter.



I'VE FINISHED MY EXAMS!!!!

Wahaha. XD

I understand now the meaning of hell and the "year 3 crisis".

SC4215D at 9 am tomorrow and SC2204 at 5 pm. Thank God their subject material is relatively similar and thank goodness I have Pam and Wilson to stick both papers out with me.

SC2210 on Thursday at 1 pm and then it'll be over.

And all I can do after that is cross my fingers and toes and hope and pray really really hard that the two A+ grades which I've received this semester haven't gone to waste.


Dear, I'm sorry to have worried you; I get these bouts of pessimism sometimes, so don't let it bother you, ok? But thank you for loving me and being here anyway. :)

There've been lots of changes in my life recently after one um.. major change. Lol.

My hall room is suddenly getting really packed, and I've somehow managed to accumulate a LOT of new stuff in what must be record time.

A new pillow.

A new pet.

A new sound system.

All in the space of... five days? 0_o

Bizarre. But I'm thankful anyway, dear. :)


Anyway, the new pet: a hamster. My first hamster, really. Before this, the only pets I had were three mice. And I'm constantly finding out in rather shocking ways that hamsters' daring apparently has no limits.

Previously, with my three mice, if they were in a high position and the ground was too far away, they would just stay where they were.

This hamster, by contrast, not only attempts to plunge headlong to certain death (if he hits his head), but even does it backwards-- yes, he even motors *backwards* till he falls off.

It's really quite disturbing. *shakes head*

But, here: everyone, meet Nuzzle.


A small male hamster of Winter White breed. Judging from his size and how often he eats and sleeps, it's likely that he isn't anywhere over a year old, the little munchkin. ^_^



It's also good to know that he utilises the wheel quite often. Although half the time, he's not actually running in it. He sleeps and eats in it too. :P


And, the new sound system, which was acquired only today:


Creative's I-Trigue L3500. This is a shot of the speakers alongside my laptop; yes, don't mind my wallpaper now. I've been told that it's the furthest thing from what you'd expect to find on a girl's desktop. :P

There's a subwoofer as well, which isn't in the shot since it's under my table.

And the whole system cost just $79 at the Creative Warehouse Sale!!

I swear, Creative gives "daylight robbery" a completely new meaning-- it reverses it; it's as if it's enticing customers to come rob the store by buying all these products at dirt-cheap prices. :P

9.30 am.

The view from my hall room's windows is better than that of my own room at home, in some ways.

At home, the only things that my windows look out on are the windows and backyards of all the neighbouring houses.

In my hall room, my windows are subtly obscured by a tree.

This morning I realised how soothing the view could be.

With the blinds down and half open, swaying in the breeze generated by my ceiling fan, and the leaves and branches of the tree itself swaying in the wind and dappled sunbeams playing upon the green and brown.

I wish every day of my life was like this.

Mornings with the sound of birds and rustling leaves, of trees filled with sunlight, and all the time in the world to sit and stare. And listen to you tell me that you love me. :)

But the books are calling.

Life... is good right now. ^_^

Coz Gerri actually got an A+ for her SC4215D term paper.

Got the shock of my life when I saw the grade staring up at me from the cover page of my paper: "Excellent. A+"

I wanna frame up the paper man. Lol.

The very first level 4000 module I've ever done, and my term paper turned out so much better than I expected. XD


And there was a second kind of shock waiting for me when I got back to hall; *that* question got asked a lot sooner than I expected. :P

Since it's already 2.32 am... I was shooting last night since our range will be closing for upgrading work on Thursday.

And I got a new top score for the 50m distance. :D

Previously, my highest score at 50m was 277/360; I think I achieved that during the NJ shoot, I can't really remember when.

And last night it hit 281.

Gerri is very very happy. XD

In the small hours of the morning, breathing in the cold pre-dawn air--
i m always quite worried
With quiet piano music playing and the sound of a keyboard tap, tap, tapping--
always feel like i shd be doing sth to mk u feel beta
A book open to pages of blue and green highlights and red lines and scribbles--
care for u ma
And a tiresome two weeks that loom ahead.
tt y i say i hv a soft spot for u

But at 2.02 am in the morning, Gerri felt loved. ^_^

Today is a good day and Gerri is dosed up to her eyeballs on happiness. ^_^

Got my Social Inequalities mid-term back today; when I went to collect it from my tutor Swu Yi's office, she told me that I'd done very well, but never in my wildest dreams did I think I'd find what I did when I flipped to the second page of my answer script to find my grade.

I got an A+.

FINALLY, after 4 semesters in NUS, an A+!!!

And I've even been asked to make a copy of my "excellent paper" for my tutor.

*cue wide eyes and dropped jaw and tiny squeal of disbelief* XD

After that, my presentation for SC4215D went pretty well too, I think. Prof Schmidt was talking most of the time about other arguments which weren't in the reading, and I didn't get much of a chance to present what I'd stayed up till 5 am this morning to finish, but I still think it went pretty well. :)

If nothing else, I've learned that economists have a very strange, twisted kind of reasoning. :P

So tonight, after a whole week of not sleeping enough, I finally have no pressing deadlines. Although I will make a trip down to the library tomorrow to get all the readings which I don't already have for SC4215D and SN2234. And I should probably start watching some course videos too.... there were some I wanted to watch but never got around to really doing so.

It's right about that time of year where it's the time to embrace muggerdom. :P

Insufficient sleep makes Gerri high. Odd, but true, I assure you.

Prolonged insufficient sleep makes Gerri slightly cranky in the mornings.

Especially when I'm functioning on 2 hours of sleep and have an early morning lecture in which I can't (and have never been able to) make sense of any-f***ing-thing the lecturer is saying.

11 hours of sleep in the last 80 hours.

I so should've picked a different module.


On the bright side though, today was a lovely, cool, clear (read: NON-HAZY) morning.

And one of the first things that I saw on the way to the Dining Hall for breakfast this morning was this very pretty sight:




I never really noticed that the trees near E Block had flowered, but it looks like a lot of the pretty little things fell off in the night. But they still look lovely, painting the ground around the trees with their light touches of pink so early in the morning. :)

And my poor little VGA phone camera really doesn't do it any justice. Sigh.

I suppose here it starts all over again.

And it's kind of difficult to see things ending differently.


I half-wish that I'd listened when you told me that I was only getting myself into trouble again.


So.

Now all that's left--

Is to count the days.

Until it's over.

Essays are finally all over.

All that's left right now is the presentation for SC4215D that I have to make next week, and the MIDI composition for Science of Music.

So I guess now it's time to start doing all that reading that I've been putting off for the second half of the semester to do research for papers.

Gerri has learned that enough stress and not nearly enough sleep only make things worse. Well, okay, I don't think I've learned that only now-- maybe it's more like someone's trying to drive a point home. Like, into my thick skull.

Halloween celebrations on Monday night this week were fun stuff; it wasn't much since it was a school night and everything, but the function hall was divided into half: the back half was a haunted maze and the front half was used to screen the movie "Saw", and lightsticks were strewn all over the floor and hung from the ceiling.

I'd never seen "Saw" before when it was first released in theatres, but after what I saw on Monday night, it's damn sick gross shit. Although when we started watching in the beginning, what struck me first was that the cinematography was amazing. The way everything kind of comes together in the end is also very telling of a well-thought-out storyline.

Doesn't change the fact that it's some seriously gross shit, though. :P

Missed about 15 minutes of it somewhere in the middle, coz that's when the maze was ready for play and two girls and myself went in.

As usual, I'm probably no fun to try and scare. Sorry. :P But the two girls with me, Mai Anh and Giang Thanh, were um.. pretty freaked, I'd say. I thought that the video clip which the Drama folks put together in the beginning was pretty good; it might've been better if the voiceover was slightly louder and not so muffled.


Just occurred to me just now that it's kinda weird; my room seems to be accumulating two people's stuff recently.