eh somehow i found the yearbook quite unexciting leh. and i hate our softball photo. it was weird-coloured, all round ugly and you can't even see some people in the photo. see my photo is nicer righttt.

yesterday as bird mentioned, we hung out. but there's nothing ESPECIALLY interesting to talk abt. except that we got good bargains. and muah cheeeeee! haha sorry bird.

ooh today for tuition, we were discussing this really (in my opinion) funny poem about the gorgeous and large concubine, 杨贵妃 (yang2 gui4 fei1) and the obsessed emperor, 唐玄宗 (tang2 xuan2 zong1). it's called 长恨歌 (chang2 hen4 ge1) by 白居易(bai2 ju1 yi4). it's a really really really long poem. spans 3 pages in my book. haha some of the phrases written by mr 白 are pure genius! aye i shan't bother quoting cos it's really quite a drag typing in chinese on the computer. but ooh interesting tidbit. did you know (cos i didn't) that yang gui fei was originally betrothed to tang xuan zong's son?? but he fell so horribly in love with her that he devised a cunning plot to steal her. he sent her to a nunnery and after a long absence from the palace, he eventually took her back to be his wife. mannn talk about incest! haha and apparently yang gui fei had SERIOUS body odour so the dedicated emperor gave her her own hot spring to bathe in as much as possible :D hahahahah and the servants had to put fragrant flowers etc (like jasmine) in her clothes so she wouldn't stink so bad. luckily for her, she eventually started smelling of flowers, which only increased her allure. ahhh i must sound like such a freak but i'm really quite amused by this poem. i think this is only the third 唐诗 that has really interested me! but don't ask me to recite any to you. cos i can't remember the lines.