--i'm a Survivor freak. the first episode airs next week and besides eagerly anticipating its debut (read: i think about the show every day), i'm already thinking about how to revolve my (imagined) social calendar around the show. meaning, no more going out on fri nights. yet, in an unprecedented move, i asked to transfer my sign lang class from this Sun to next Fri. so i will actually miss most of the debut, darn it! this is exactly how highly i think of the instructor's teaching for the fri class

--watched Turn Left, Turn Right FOC! a show that i like and that i hope other people will like as well. you know, critically acclaimed, high ratings splash, widespread social commentary yadda yadda. hence, the slight disappointment when i read the not-so-flattering reviews in 8 days, I-weekly and Straits Times. though i can understand where the reviewers are coming from now that i read the critiques. anyway, it may not be a good thing to be knowledgeable in movies after all since you can't derive simplistic pleasure from watching a movie anymore. you can't help but think about the larger issues contained within it and obsess about genre analysis

it's nice to watch a movie before the rest of S'pore though. since i'm a trend-conformist. THANKS Fang!

--Ee Wun, my sign lang instructor agreed to meet me at 7.45am every Wed, thurs and fri so that we can take bus 74 together and help me with my signing. i will have to wake up one hour earlier every thurs and fri from now on (sigh sigh) but it's something i'm very thrilled to be doing at the same time. thing is, i don't know whether i'm genuinely interested in Ee Wun as a friend and as an individual or whether i'm just making use of her so that i can improve my signing. and i guess i will never know. but if Ee Wun were hearing, i surely won't bother to initate such a gesture, right? so am i at fault?

but going to school is no longer a drag liao! and i think that's cool--that i actually look forward to the loooong bus rides...

--i may have an affinity in business. i loved HRM (yes, not too pai say to admit that) and i love my marketing module now

--Sept 11. healing thoughts to the Americans