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ying says:
bird. reality check

ying says:
no such thing as cute sporean guys

now that is quite true.

perhaps the best weekend yet!

amazing stuff! we won clare novices regatta! queens' b rocks! daisy (cox) nikki (stroke) lucy (7) louise (6) amy (5) emma (4) constance (3) charlotte (2) me! (bow) and kate our coach.but in chronological order....
friday night watched bring it on with weevien (erin don't you love it? i'm sexy i'm cute i'm popular to boot!) then my sister finally arrived at like 11! happily went to get burger and chips... almost got accosted by two scary guys but made it back safely. happiness all around! cos i love my sister :) :)

saturday had second round of clare novices. left at 9 to buy a sneaky cake cos it was amy and charlotte's bday... met at the boat house for warm upss! our first race against selwyn c (the letters represent the boat rank... like we're queens' b meaning we're the second boat in queens') which we won quite easily. i think they had some trouble at the start so we ended up racing on our own. excited cos we made the semis! but... that meant i'd have to be out the entire day and not spend time with my sister! on the row home, it started pouring!!!!!!! like really pouring!!! splash top is fantastic but it doesn't protect your legs, your bum, your head, your fingers. reached the boat house completely soaked. we had a radiator party. basically a whole bunch of us sticking our bums against the radiator trying to get dry.wet minging hair!! heh but like our team tops with queens' down the arm?? the fit is a bit dodgy but otherwise it's COOL! also had cake and happy times with the team! erging to dry off.... walking around in tights. mine were not quite opaque... heh but all the boys were upstairs so that was ok. then running out (with trousers all put back on) to get hot chocolate...

then at 3+ pushed off for the semis against christs b (saraho's boat!). possibly the funniest race cos everything went wrong on our part! our 4's gate came undone and her blade flew out. she somehow managed to screw it back on but we were rowing for the greater part with just 7 rowers! our cox box died so we couldn't hear a word daisy was saying... and our stroke's seat came out. i have no idea how she managed to row... but yess we beat christs by a good 3feet according to my coach. hah i dunno i thought it was a really hard race. i really must have died right there and then. my legs just wouldn't move. but we won. thank goodness.

then finals was IMMEDIATELY after. against selwyn a! an A boat lehhhh! it was a super duper exciting race. after attention go, we were in the lead by about a third of a boat... then they did an amazing legs10 and got ahead of us by half a boat. i tell you...when i saw them gaining (i know i shouldn't be looking) i really wanted to give up already. haha yes i know i'm an awful sportsman. then we rounded the corner fantastically (amazing daisy!!) and drew level with them... and for the last 100m it was REALLY neck and neck. omg i've never rowed SOO hard. it was actually so close that 2 of the 3 marshals didn't know who won. and the third said queens'. SO WE WONNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! omg i've never come in first my whole life! hahahha. so we got a medal for our win! omg i'm one of 36 people (boys have upper lower division girls have upper lower division. 9 people in a boat. we're lower division) in cambridge who have that. is that cool or whatttt!! haha i'm sorry i'm gushing but we were really so psyched! like it was just AMAZING. and at least being out rowing the entire day, soaked for the most part, was worth it!the winners :D haha we had birthday balloons!

queens' domination so far! m1 (men's A boat) won queens' ergs, w1 won emma sprints. now w2 won clare regatta! haha it was quite funny how the hope of queens' rested on our shoulders cos none of the other boats made it to their finals. w1, w3, m3, m4 all got knocked out after the first race. m5, m2 didn't make it to semis. m1 lost semis didn't make finals. so yahhh we are quite good ahh!

got back really late. think my sister was a bit annoyed cos i abandoned her for the entire day. felt quite horrid cos after all, i dragged her down to spend the weekend with me. oh well. dinner with the anatomy prof and his wife. OHHHHH homecooked food! simple roasted chicken, vegetables and potatoes. but so yummy! i had 3 helpings :D haha and 2 helpings of pudding (amazing lemon tart). i think they were a bit scared by how much i ate. but hey i didn't have a proper lunch and i was rowing the whole day. felt so happy after that. well fed indeed. then came back and just talked to my sister the rest of the night. oh and got her onto facebook. haha!

this morning we went for full english breakfast at the copper kettle. ooooooh yummy! then went shopping for hats. then i had to go for rowing outing (yes rowing AGAIN! i was quite annoyed. i really didn't want to go. but it was our last outing for the term) we rowed 10km. i wanted to die. was already exhausted from yesterday. now even more exhausted. novice fairbairns (massive race of the term) on thursday is 1800m. HOWWWWW??? aye but we've won clare regatta already so never mind. heh. then cycled back really really quickly and ran back to my room to maximise my time with my sister. haha... we went for a yummy lunch at the rat and parrot. and my sister is so nice and generous. she insisted on buying me a nice pudding. but no. must. save. money. and i was ok-full anyway. sat there for like an hour just talking. then sent her off at the bus station. cried cos i will miss her :( felt miserable. and this man at the bus station tried to cheer me up, it was quite funny. but i still felt miserable.

came back, forgot all about amy's party (oopssss. i hope ppl went. but i was feeling really rubbishy i would have made crap company) then went for some christmas carol service. that was ok i guess. like the choir was really cool. and the organ player is my friend. but i don't know all these christian songs. and i should have spent that time sleeping. it ended really late and i only had like 10min to get ready for charlotte's bday formal. formal was quite fun! medics vets and some random ppl. it was good to talk to different ppl for a change. and the food was really good! then we all went to the bar to chat. ayeee good times! yes so this was possibly the best weekend :)

haven't read tmr's dissection notes. haven't had enough sleep. am dead.

sunday 26/11/06 2358

dont mug too hard!

hahahahhaha this thing totally cracks me up!

so there's army talk, med talk, law talk... now there's boatie talk! seriously... put 2 novice boaties in a group and you'll end up with very annoyed non-boaties wanting to leave the conversation.

anyway i'm psyched cos we had the first round of clare novices regatta on thursday and our boat won both our races! wooooot! for our races we got special tshirts with our crew names and stuff... so it's like got the names of our cox, coach and the VIII of us at our positions. cool no? everyone was very impressed. BUT. we paid 20quid for it. haha so clare novices is an 800m race. scary stuff since emma sprints was 500m long and i very nearly died.

our first race was against clare b. which we won easily cos i think they crashed into the bank. advanced to the next round... which we had to wait in the boat for like 2 hours for. and it was FREEZING!! i could hardly feel my fingers. second race against jesus b! (jesus is traditionally v strong at rowing. so is queens' though. haha) everyone was quite nervous cos we have this sort of rivalry with jesus (or at least they annoy us a bit) cos we got our ass kicked by jesus a during emma sprints. so we desperately wanted to beat them. after "ATTENTION, GO!" we had an amazing start! and then jesus caught a crab (which is when like you don't square your blade properly before putting it into the water so it kind of gets sucked under by the water. and this basically screws up the entire boat) so we got a massive headstart. then we caught a crab (not as massive luckily) and jesus managed to get within a boat's length of us. omg it was sooo scary and exciting! like "we're fricking winning if jesus overtake us it'd be damn lau kui" kept going through my head. and i swear they kept inching closer and closer. and i love our cox! she's amazing.

typical cox talk in a race:
"and drive 1! drive 2! drive 3! and WIND 1! WIND 2! etc etc. AND LEGS 1! LEEHHHGS2!!! LEEHHHHGS 3!!! etc... COME ON GIRLS EYES IN THE BOAT YOU GUYS ARE AWESOME AND I WANT A POWER 4... IN 2... IN 1... AND PUSHING WITH THE LEGS! SIT BAHHHCCKKK! SIT BAHHHCCCKK! AND LENGTHEN THAT STROKE! LENGTHEN IT! SQUARE EARLIER! SQUARE! I WANT TO SEE THAT PRETTY ROWING! CATCHING WITH STROKE! PUSHING WITH THE LEGS!"
funny right? haha but it's damn motivating!

haha so yeahh we rowed like mad and 800m wasn't all that tiring with all that adrenaline. but heh i reckon if you took a snapshot of us rowing it would have the funniest expressions! i'm sure i had a look of utter pain on my face. HAHA! and so we WON! by a boat's length. we were damn psyched after that!! haha gotta love it man! tmr morning racing selwyn c. if we win that we're in semis. and if we win that we're in finals. and if we win that we'll be champs! haha er... i dunno whether that would happen. and it's annoying me a bit cos my sister is coming tonight for the weekend and i could very well end up spending my entire day tmr rowing! :(

today's dissection was hilarious! emma: so if you want to kill someone, is that where you cut? hahahahaha the look on the demonstrator's face was priceless!

i only just realised how off my time is from blogger's. so i'll try to sign off with the time on my side in the future.

friday 24/11/06 1743

random pictures from random events

heh heh cos i finished an essay yesterday i'm feeling a bit overconfident about work. supposed to be reading some stuff for supervision but. well never mind.this was from oxbridge games a long time ago! when it was warm enough to wear t shirt and shorts around. it's really cold nowadays :(

notts games! i'm for queens'!haha it was really cold that weekend.and our netball team that was actually quite zai. HAHA!

emma sprints. third boat!yess i know we were missing a G. the girl with the G had really long hair and the letter kept getting stuck to her hair. i was S. and the cox had the coolest costume lar! polar bear... they even made him gloves with pipette tips sticking out to make claws.

last night clare formal with the netball girls! i was feeling really sleepy and unfriendly though. my first formal without wine. the food was not too bad. the dessert was AWESOME!

love this song!! madworld by gary jules. first heard it on csi.. haha then heard it yesterday on an advert at the cinema. and you're not supposed to see anything on the screen i think. crap didn't do any work!!!!!

had a really good weekend again with no work done!

fri was a crummy day because it was raining! dissection in the afternoon was quite sian cos it was pretty much stuff we'd done before. and our demonstrator was horrid. she didn't know anything. like she'd avoid answering our questions or answer with another question -_- but i was still quite happy (maybe cos the weekend was coming) and like everyone seemed to be really friendly that day. i don't know why. we'd just wander around tables and ppl would happily show us all the structures they'd identified and then we'd continue talking about random things. got out of the dissection room and it was POURING. luckily i had my splash top (worth every penny) on and it kept me and my handouts dry. but my hair and my shoes were completely soaked. had a really nice hot shower and hot cup of honey. then tom came over to pass me his spangly gold shirt! hahaha it is such a hideous shirt. and he was so nice to run through the rain to bring it to me :D heh actually cos he wanted to see the legendary dokett b rooms! haha he is really one of the funniest people i know! almost missed our train to london that night! but had the most splendid dinner at four seasons. omg. i was sooooo happy. we had roast duck and char siew and siew yoke and aubergine and ma po tou fu and calamari (like that yummy one at crystal jade) and chinese green vegetables. seriously the british have no idea what vegetables really are! yup it was a super duper dinner! i even out-ate all the boys at the table! wasn't quite full enough after that though... :S then went to laura's room and just chilled out for the rest of the night (and morning) having girly chat! yayyy!

sat met cheryl and the 3 of us just went shoppingggg!! the weather was so nice... warm enough to just wear a long sleeved top! returned my h&m skirt which was looking uglier and uglier each time i looked at it so i was 15quid richer! but then spent it all and more. 2 tops, a pair of shoes, a scarf, 2 pairs of tights. had wanton mee in chinatown and bought egg tarts!! haha now looking back i think maybe i should not have bought anything at all cos sales are coming and things in spore are wayyy cheaper. i think. heh but yeah i had a really fun time with both of them anyway :D :D :D :D i was actually quite sad when i was leaving. i miss my singaporean friends!!!! got back really late and felt slightly depressed. good weekends always make me feel depressed.

next day had to get up early for emma sprints!! my boat's race was only at about 1 but the 3rd boat's bow was injured so i had to sub for their race at 10. twice the agony. hardcore!! 3rd boat dressed up as penguins so i got a penguin mask and a big white belly. we lost both our races. felt quite crummy rowing with them and suddenly felt very thankful for my crew. rushed back and immediately had to head out with my boat. we were a rainbow!!don't think you can see me right at the end - pot of gold. our cox (the person who essentially controls the whole boat) was a leprechaun and she was doing her best irish accent.. it was hilarious! we'd have like rousing choruses of "i'm a leprechaun and i'm ok" all with that quaint irish twang. and she'd keep going: where's my pot of gold!? and i'd have to wave my arms around madly! haha we were all laughing so hard it was so much funnn!!bow pair! charlotte our 2 and me at bow. was that gold shirt embarrassing or what? haha she's wearing our very cool splash top! nice right??? heh in case you were wondering, her violet top was under the splash top. it was cold waiting in the shade.... but at least it was sunny. might even have got a tan! haha our 2nd boat won our first race, the other boat basically crashed into the bank immediately after: ATTENTION, GO! love race starts! but i was really dying halfway through the race. i am so unfit. like our cox would call for a power10 and i would just think: i can't even move my fricking legs anymore!!!! :( we lost our second race so couldn't advance. we were leading at the start (we have really good race starts! haha) but then couldn't keep it up and got beaten. damn it. oh well, but we had a really good time as a boat i think. and the row home was so nice. heh i might upload the video onto youtube and show you all... but it's my friend's video so have to see first. got back at 430 x_x (almost 9-5 day!!! seriously hardcore) and just slept.

watched casino royale at night which was actually really good considering i hate james bond and daniel craig is ugly and has a bad body. but yeah it was a pretty good film!

today richard finally showed me who the borat guy was. haha cos i kept bugging him to tell me. haha he was trying to tell me the borat guy was some archibald dunno-who from trinity. but now i know! haha seriously crazy people! and erg training today that was really good. george our coach today knows how to push people. and in a way that we don't collapse at the end of training. i survived 20min!!!! yayyyyyy and now have to get ready for dinner with the dean. free food! haha that's all i can think of after spending in london.

rowing on the cam.... ayeeee i'm really so glad i've taken it up. it's quite crazy but impossibly cool! like i can totally understand how people can go completely mental about it!

i was bored, so i went to check out the calendar. (VERY bored.) and next year there's a
FRIDAY THE THIRTEENTH!!!!
in july.











ARGHHH!! bad sign!!!

so sat was notts. then sundayyyy... hmmm. oh we had a REALLY REALLY good rowing outing! we did race starts- draw3 drive5 legs10! wahhhh it is seriously damn cool when everyone does it together! unfortunately i was completely silent during that outing cos i didn't have my voice :( haha charlotte had to number off for me at the start. went to watch borat at night with ben and ian. DON"T WATCH IT IT SUCKS BIG TIME. completely unfunny compared to the tv show. we were all damn disappointed. but all the brits i've spoken to love it! ????????

monday we dissected the gluteal region. may i remind you that our body was FATTTTTT?? so we cut and cut and cut and cut and cut and cut and cut and cut and cut and cut and cut. and finally!! gluteus maximus! haha and oh yeah i thought after steeplechase was over we would all be happy and relaxed for the rest of term. but the minute monday came.... omg i was overwhelmed AGAIN. this is seriously unhealthy. supervision at night was horrible. i didn't know what was going on. then i realised it was because i read through the wrong notes. stupidity at its best. but i was happy cos my supervisor said my essay was very good!!! :D

tuesday completely clueless in lectures. haha i gave up completely and hannah and i were just gossipping during the whole lecture. quietly i think. but then the girl in front of us turned around and said very sternly: can you please not talk??!!!!! oops. i don't know why i can never pay attention :( ahhh and i <3 style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/801/188/320/n36920764_31792562_7721.jpg" border="0">jasmineho!
then went to chill in meng's room. milo milkshake that actually made me feel ill. we tried to surprise alex and have a tesco party but the noob went to cindies. (more happening than us!) wv and ben came to my cardboard box of a room (i love it really) and talked til like 2am. slightly depressing chat but ayeee i'm glad we all get along and are willing to talk about stuff. heh we keep saying to one another: i'm so glad you're at queens'. and i really am cos otherwise i would have died from loneliness and homesickness. like really really.

wed rubbishy day anatomy procedures (biggest waste of time) and histology (hate microscopes). haha but histology is funn cos i'm with tom rob charlotte and omg they are soo funny! we always talk about stupid things (ooh gigantic fat cell! cardiac muscle dance!) laugh so much and end up finishing wayyyyy later than everyone else in class. then met chrees and went shopping at sains for dinner. showed her my room, went to her room and finally had a good long chat with her! <3 then went over to pembroke to cook with jasho. ok food lar.... haha but we had fun! ohhhh and then late at night right i suddenly got a call from this guy pretending to be borat. his impression was damn good lar. i kept asking who it was but he wouldn't tell me. i still can't figure out who it was!!

yesterday we had preparing for patients! our first clinical experience which i lovedddd!! i was damn scared before that cos i didn't want to screw things up and say the wrong things to the patient but it turned out really good cos our gp was soooo lovely. except he kept getting my name wrong. halfway through the session it evolved into meiling. good grief! haha but he was really trying. sorry chinese name too hard lar! it was at mill road and natalie and i had to walk for fricking 40min in the cold rain!! that area damn dodgy... nat and i were waiting at the lights and this guy in the car next to us was like "hey girlssss....." 0_0 scaryyy! but yeah pfp was really quite good. for dinner ben and i were grossed out by the buttery choices so we went to gardy's! ohhhhhhhhhhhh cheeseburger and chipssssssssssss!!! <3 <3 <3 <3 damn good. made me feel happy. then we went to look for alex and watched family guy american dad and southpark. the 2 of them are seriously very bad influences. didn't do any work last night!! actually i think i'm quite a slacker here. i'm dead i'm dead i'm dead. have to mug damn hard during holidays.

this morning had a completely shitty rowing outing. got up at 615 reached the boathouse at 7 and we couldn't do anything cos this one girl was fricking late (half an hour!!). so our outing was really short. oh and we have out first race on sunday! emma sprints fancy dress! our boat is going as a rainbow and since there are 7 colours, 8 of us and i'm bow i have to be a pot of gold. haha! i've bought my chocolate gold coins now i'm gonna try to borrow tom's 80s gold jacket. ooh and our cox is a leprechaun. coollllll! london after dissection today. see no work done again!!! i'm dead.

was looking at mak's london/nottingham/scotland pictures and i really liked this one! there's nothing to lie on in singapore, except my bed.

family guy!

ok this clip was from one of the episodes i watched on friday. it made me laugh so hard. that doctor is hilarious!

right so wednesday night my brain became completely saturated and suddenly everything was illuminated! i get anatomy!! woooooooooo!!! i think alex was quite scared by how much i ate when i was studying :S

thursday was really when i realised i wasn't stupid. hence the starting line of previous entry. theo gave us a mini test during supervision and i actually got 16/20!! woooooooooo!! haha considering the highest mark was 18 (duh alex!) i was quite pleased with myself. like i could remember stuff!! so that night i tried to study out of mcminn's to identify structures on prosections and stuff and it was just a big brown mass to me. i hate that atlas. i don't think anything went into my head that night. it didn't help that i was feeling mildly confident after the test. it also didn't help that i was feeling excited after Some Kind Of gossip. heh heh hehhhhhh

friday morning we had anatomy mcq test! technically not a test but i took it like one. anddddddd i wasn't too stupid! i got 94/102 which i think is quite respectable :) nehhh but i felt quite bad cos then all the other medics were like: we don't want to be your friend anymore!!! :( then steeplechase in the afternoon which was such a draining experience. i was sooooo happy because
1. i could identify most structures
2. i could actually remember details regarding those structures!!
i got 133/160 which i was EXTREMELY happy with because i beat my sister's first steeplechase by a point! wooooooo!! yes i'm a competitive arse. i can't help it. yup then everyone else was going on about how impossible my mark was and making me feel quite paiseh. but i was really so happy and thankful because i worked my ass off. while the rest of them were still having fun watching borat and partying at cindies. so. welcome geek life and goodbye social life. haha but you have no idea how relieved i was to discover that my brain is still functioning!

so to celebrate post-anatomy-intensive week, we had a massive cookout! prima deli hainanese chicken rice mix. it was sooooooo good. yummyyyyyy! we are all getting to be quite good cooks! then watched tv the whole night! i <3 style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/801/188/320/me%20yingmei%20weevien.0.jpg" border="0">

i think i'm finally proving i deserve to be here :)

monday we had physiology expt with frog legs. yuckkkkk. they showed us this very retro video with a guy with big glasses and wearing suspenders explaining the theory of the expt and getting all excited about stripping the skin off the frog. ooh science! it just makes me shiver with delight. hmm. anyway it was a rather rubbishy practical. our frog leg was going absolutely mental! twitching all over the place. haha then biked over for erg training. i somehow survived 20min.

tuesday was my 'stupid' day. we had MIMS prac and omg hannah and i knew nothing. we were lab partners and couldn't help each other at all. charlotte and emma were sitting across from us and they had made friends with the (horrible) german demonstrator. tom and rob (whom i think a genius) were our bench partners. so anyway we had to ask the german demonstrator for help cos our machine wasn't working. tom and rob came over to listen in on whatever he was saying right. and THEN the horrible man started asking me and hannah questions and i didn't know what the hell he was talking about! so he would ask a question and then look at me (why me!!!) for the answer and there would be this terrible terrible silence. and the whole time i was thinking: save me robbbbbb!!! and no one said anything. it was actually quite funny if i weren't feeling so stupid. but anw emma answered the question and the german man was happy. you could obviously tell he thought hannah and i were complete idiots and that he adored charlotte and emma. haha actually now that i think about it it was seriously damn funny. after that i demanded an explanation from rob why he didn't save us all and he said he had no clue either. haha! but well we've decided the german man hates us so we then kept asking this other nice geeky man for help. then HOM supervision in the evening which thankfully didn't turn out badly considering i couldn't follow the lecture series at all. i actually think my supervisor doesn't hate me anymore. yayy!

wed night alex came over to revise for steeplechase. i think more like helping me revise though. he's damn smart and i just ended up guessing and looking to him for the answer.

benefits of working under stress-
alex: what is the upper border of the femoral triangle?
me: huhhhh...... shit bloody hell i don't know!
alex: no.. you know! you answered this during supervision!
me: i did? but i really don't know.
alex: inguinal ligament. you told theo that! you know it!
me: i definitely didn't know that.

me: what forms the base of the anatomical snuff box?
alex: errrr... i don't know.
me: yes you do! you answered that in theo's supervision!
alex: huh really?
after a very long pause: oh is it the scaphoid?

mannn theo must be one scary man.

haha anyway chicken rice beckons. i hope it turns out ok!

thanks a lot jon... i just spent half an hour watching this instead of mugging -_- but omg it is fricking hilarious!!! i never thought i'd find ali g funny but yeahh.... oh if you see the rowing bit at about 3min that's what we do at cambridge! hahaha the pig in the boat!

i know i should be studying. i really do. but i figured if i don't blog i will forget about my entire uni experience. so this is pretty much for me. although because it's public i'll have to leave out quite a few details. bird shall we password protect!?

ok anyway the last i talked about was queens' ergs. i have more photos! this is my crew... see our queens' t shirts? but all the colleges got one -_-

and this is the picture of me in pain that didn't come up the last time. i hope it does this time. i think it's hilarious. unglam but hilarious.
thursday night got invited by hannah to watch rocky horror. since fri's bop theme was rocky horror. when i was going over to kirsten's room, i just kept thinking, ym you're so brave ym you're so brave. because i was going to crash some movie watching in which i probably wouldn't know anybody except hannah. and kirsten 0_0 turned out alright. but the movie in my opinion is completely crap. very cheesy 1970s. everyone running around in underwear, feeling up each other. and the final scene: everyone (guys girls whatnots) in platforms fishnets underwear corset. hmmmm not my kind of show. but the angmohs love it!

so friday wv and i went shopping. but it was so late the shops were closing we couldn't find any suitable costume so we just got mini skirts and tights. then went for formal at pembroke. which has so much more qi fen than queens'. got pennied so many times i was drunk before my starter arrived. but the food was good. i loved the dessert <3.

bop! gunshot photoben was damn out of point. my outfit totally didn't fit. i only got my rocky horror eyes which you might not even be able to see from the photo. i think i'll return the skirt cos i doubt i'll wear it again. and my stupid tights were supposed to be herring bone patterned but you can't even tell. waste moneyyyy. after that went to pick up burger and chips. yummyyyyyy! freezing my knees off again. and got involved in a certain scary incident that bird and shuching know about! yesterday tried to study. i had a whole freaking day! but ended up going shopping (sains, beanie for rowing and cycling, jumper, socks and a cute tank top) and talking to people. i hardly did any work at all. night time was bonfire night!fireworksssss.
ok lar like ndp. just went there stood on the field. ooh and ahhhhhhhhh. and that was it. mac's for dinner. is it just me or is the quarter pounder tiny? then came back and tried to do some work. ended up falling asleep. but i had to wake up for my 1145 bop shift. worked front door with charlotte. we were both so tired we were just giggling like mad laughing at nothing in particular. and i taught her how to draw the brachial plexus. people were giving us weird looks. but seriously some people are crazy. ours was the last shift cos the bop ends at 1245. but during that hour at least 10 people came and paid 4pounds for a ticket. wth! rowing later. i hope i don't freeze....

i think. that i'd have studied music if i had enough talent. or just enough guts. today i went to church at 825 am and found out that there was NO PIANIST (!!!) -insert open-mouthed face from msn- and even after screwing up most of the songs, i realized that i really miss playing the piano. maybe i'll redo that diploma some day.

but for now, i think i'd better START STUDYING.

oh good grief i must be the biggest idiot alive. guess what i did just now? i locked myself out of my room. TWICE. first i forgot to bring my key out for dinner. never mind that's ok.... i went to the porter's lodge to pick up the spare key. so i let myself in and happily grabbed my towel and shower stuff and walked out. leaving BOTH my room key and the spare key in my room. 0_0 just great. luckily alex was around so i could borrow his coat and went to look for the porter again. luckily the porter was the nice one as well. oh god i felt so stupid.

me: erm hi, i think i just did the dumbest thing possible.
porter: (pause) no... you didn't. (looks at me with great disbelief) you didn't.... you didn't.... did you?? ohhhh now what on earth shall we do.
-at which point i really wanted to kill myself-
porter: now this could be a bit of a problem. it's cold out tonight.

haha he had a master key lar that man. but really he was so nice. now i'm going to be even more conscious of my keys when i leave the room.

tuesday we had queens' ergs!!! relay race on the rowing machines. my boat was the second fastest second novice boat! yayyyy! i bettered my pb by 3sec. but i very nearly died. seriously the competition was maddd. they had our bop sound system on and people were screaming and shouting everywhere. we met in our cox's room and our coach fed us like bananas, lucozade and haribo sweets. then warm ups: running around in (according to my friend) -3degrees temperature in t shirts and shorts and stretching out in the cold!! brrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. we were damn psyched up but they were running behind schedule and our race only started like 40min later. by which time we had unpsyched by quite a bit.amy our starter! damn zai.pulling power!! i didn't know my ponytail was so seng-ehk. and that's my sometimes-overzealous coach.look at my boat cheer!

anyway the temperature has dropped significantly over the past few days. damn colddddddddddddddddddddd. and i've got rowing tmr morn x_x