Wednesday, May 25

Finally plucked up the courage to choose NTU - Chem and Bio Engine. Crap. Took me weeks to go through with it. Lol. Anyway, now that I've confirmed my place in NTU, I need a roomie! Argh!

*goes through list of possible people*

Merry and Yani are out, they are going NUS. Sigh.

Waychin arh Waychin, where are you going? NUS? NTU? Overseas? Not confirmed also.

There's Aileen from Iras, I wonder if she'll go NTU... Hope so.

There's Mei from Iras too, and she's really torn between a life of arts she likes so much at NUS, or a life of science she has been always going through at NTU. Hmm...

Then... there's Linda. I seriously don't mind, but I know the rest will object la. Sigh.

Roomies! *tears hair*

Posted by Isabelle at 9:26 pm

Saturday, May 21

I have a renewed interest in carrying on working. Lol. I'm shallow, but my new aim is to get that shiny new PSP. Woot. Haha. So, that means another extra working month to get the money for it. Cool huh? Yep. Plus, my expenses and stuff, those will be another incentive to get going. I'm not even taking half day offs. =D

Posted by Isabelle at 8:34 pm

Thursday, May 19

So us IRAS freaks were feeling a little bored. Keiko got really bored, so she wrote a letter to Mei. Lol.

My dear HAIRY friend,
I'm writing to you from the worst days of my life. Being a prisoner of war (POW) is never easy. Sitting down for hours at a time, trying to decipher the weird handwritings on green paper, rewriting useless information and sending letters to the citizens of this wretched country is driving me to my grave.

Oh my beloved friend! Save me from this wretchedness if you can! Send your armies of termites to finish this filthy green stuff! If need be, send the cockroaches and all other paper-eating pests to this office! Burn it to ashes! Be gone filthy mouldy paper!

Alas, this cry of my heart is one which falls on deaf ears. The two prison wardens (office perm staff) are watching me closely, even as I write this letter. How much worse can my wretched life get? The brutes are forcing me into silence. Clouding my brain with numbers which cannot be revealed.

Can I just walk away from all these? Walk out into the open skies and still be fed? Can I become a POW in another country? Oh, USA, here I come! Yellowstone National Park! Will thou wait for me before you blow up?

Hold your fire! You evil volcano!

I'm going to be reunited with my call of nature.

Philippines, Laos, Vietnam! Here I come!

This is the ONLY voice I got.

Your dying friend, 'the one in dirty green shirt'

LOLOLOLOL. I'm utterly lamed by the letter. Driven to madness. Wrote another letter back to her.

My dear friend in dirty green shirt,
My heart goes out to you comrade, but you must realise that we are too in the same boat. My comrade, though we are separated by the thin but impenetrable wall of our prisons, we can weep together, for I too have sore butt syndrome.

Oh my comrade! Let us fight against the treacherous armies of green paper! Stand up for your rights my friend! We are but only POWs, we have rights too! Let us march out of this lifeless office, and into the room named 'Ladies'! Even if that only gives us momentary ease from our eternal condemnation.

Yes, my friend, you can walk away from all these! There is no law if those prison wardens think they can trap us in this green hell, to be condemned forever. No! We cannot allow ourselves to be manipulated by lifeless zombies. Never. Come my friend, follow your heart and search for the haven you want to go. (But please remember to return bearing gifts.)

I wish you best of luck in your endeavour towards being reunited with your call of nature.

Your comrade-in-black-pen

PS: Why you call me HAIRY friend?

I think we've got nothing better to do. Lol... Read on. Here comes the next reply.

Oh my dear friend,
Being hairy is not just in the literal sense. Think 'hairy' as in tangly, deep, dark forests. Where monsters and scavengers dwell. (By the way, I'm appalled that you say that you have a lack of hair! I mean, there's hair on your head, pubic hair down south, east and west are pretty crowded too, not to mention nostril hair!) Anyway, remember that we're supposed to be POWs, so therefore, no shaver to shave armpits, no scissors to cut hair.

Back to being metaphorical, 'hairy' can also mean brainy, since the brain is made up of proteins, the same substance hair is made up of! Also, think of the skin -- it's made up of proteins too!

Conclusion is, Meilinda Tan, you're indeed a FANTABULOUSLY HAIRY person! (At least you don't have a balding spot, unlike the author of this letter... you are definitely 'HAIRIER' than her!

Anyway. Continuing...

Oh! (a shout of anguish!)

To know that you're suffering just as bad as me breaks my heart tremendously! What has the world become? Fancy HIGHLY educated people such as us becoming POWs!

But let your heart not become heavy, for the end is close. The war on evil taxpayers who're highly illiterate is ending! The piles of tax forms are getting lower and the supply pool will cease one day!

Oh! A plague over Herbert's (a fellow co-worker) house (his desk)! Why the devil does he keep supplying us with the green paper! However, I'll excuse his sins as long as he keeps supplying my with a constant view of his sexy butt (-.-)! (Oops, sorry for digressing!)

Be strong my friend! Find solace in your plumbing system. Flush away your problems! My spy from over the wall tells me that you've been doing a lot to quench the supply of evil green forms! Oh! Your courage strengthens me my friend!

Don't lose heart! $6.50 an hour is a lot to lose! Think of your P2P (which is actually PSP), or 2P2 or whatever, and find strength and courage from within!

With courage, your walking christmas tree for a comrade

Wonder what we do in IRAS anyway. Lol. Too bored for words.

Posted by Isabelle at 7:11 pm

Wednesday, May 18

Okay, so it's official. Got both my letters from both unis I applied to:

NUS - Faculty of Science
NTU - Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Fine. So I did look down on NTU at first, but I guess I oughta change my mind. *snubs NUS for not wanting me* Pui. Lol. I've gotta admit, NUS Chem Eng is very competitive. Too competitive for the laid-back me. Nah. I'm not the mugger type. Will never be. But I'm still interested in that course, and I hope that my interest will spur me to go on with my decision la. Now that I think over, FOS is so out of the question for me. I wonder what I'd been thinking when I said I'll go to NUS even if they give me that. Pui. Hahaha. Damn la. I'm just left with one choice.

Where else?

And I thought after 2 years of different colleges with Xin, I'd finally have the chance to go to school with her. Lol. Oh well.

Posted by Isabelle at 6:42 pm

Monday, May 16

Bought a watch today~! Lol... Finally, after 4 years of being watch-less, I've finally gotten myself a watch! Hahaa. Ok la, I a cheapo, bought it at the place Peiyu's working, so $10, I got myself a $2 discount. Cheapo rite? Lol. Hahaha. I love being a cheapo. LOL. Not bad leh, I like the interface. It's analogue, but not with the usual hour and minute hands. Looks cool.

Gonna try out a week of having a watch before I plan on getting a really good one. Hmm.

Posted by Isabelle at 12:11 am

Thursday, May 12

Yep. New layout. Nothing much different from my previous one, but hey, at least it's a change of background. Hehe. Added Avril's song, don't know why, but when I saw this picture, I was like like, 'Nobody's Home'. Cool eh? Lol.

I got my pay! Whee. Felt so good looking at my slightly fatter bank account. Now you know what's working for your money like. Woot. Gonna work harder, get more money, then spend more. Wahaha.

Posted by Isabelle at 10:32 pm

Sunday, May 8

What's the big fat deal of scoring double As and double Bs if I can't get in Chem engine and got in Science instead? What's the big fucking deal? I might as well just go get some mediocre results and gone straight for the faculty of science. Shit. I hate this. I'm trapped between going either NTU for chem engine, or doing Science at NUS. ARGH.

Stupid.

I'm seriously fucked up. I know I should have been expecting this, but I just can't accept it la. Sometimes I just gotta let it all out.

Posted by Isabelle at 6:52 pm

Wa so stupid. I didn't get in my NUS Chem engine. Got offered Science instead. SO SADED. The life of a teacher. *cries* Actually I've been prepared for this to happened, but just didn't expect myself to be really saddened by the news. So crushing. Sigh. Am I really going to NTU? Crap. ARGH. Really don't feel like going NTU... I wanna be an NUS Engine Graduate.

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING GRADUATE. ARGH.

Now I'm regretting I didn't study hard enough during A levels. ZZZ.

Posted by Isabelle at 6:45 pm

Thursday, May 5

Haha. This song is just a tester. Gonna do major renovations on it soon, just need to find the right stuff for it. Swear I'm gonna change this. Wahaha.

I wanna get my MS frontpage back... Anyone has the program I can lend from?

Posted by Isabelle at 7:22 am

Tuesday, May 3

Same old, same old. Lol. But I got my tuition pay~! So happy, but it's not gonna last me long. I'm still owing people treats, so unless my IRAS pay comes in on the 10th this month, I'm still quite penniless. Haha. Oh well, gonna hold onto my job for another month. Make money... Woot.