Day 8

Bio report..still not done yet.

I hate myself for not being efficient.

So there's this one person, sleeping on the sofa hoping that 1 and a half hour of sleep would be enough after a few hours trying to finish the whole thing in one go.

Then suddenly there's this fellow, calling her phone and greeting her good morning in a cheerful voice.

Why do some people can be so active in the morning? 

So the adventure began. With my brain still half asleep, I spent my morning doing something that I would never forget in my entire life.

Came back in the afternoon and dropped dead back again, now not on the sofa.

Now I have to get back to Bio, or else I'll be in deep trouble. Tomorrow's Sunday. I just can't believe it.

Why oh why the break is too short?

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So errr, was trying to comment on my friend's blog yesterday and found out that..

...commenting is not easy especially for blogs that have comment moderation. You even have to prove you're not a robot. I never knew about that. So yeah, thanks for entertaining my lameness during this break.  *salute* Will miss the times when I can blog freely like this. Back to real life soon. Aaaaaa.

Day 7

Woohoo.

I just want to share about the day I found out the cure for flu. Err..which is, in fact, my second discovery for the cure of flu ever since I stepped into this land of ... err...

About one month ago I came to learn that flu and sore throat can magnificently be cured by just eating ice-cream at night.

Last night, I found another way of combating flu (or a nose that runs without feet).

Sleep with your sweater on.

Believe me, Akasia's been cold, very very cold these past few nights.

I woke up nine hours later feeling great. So it's whether because of 9 hours sleep, or sleep with sweater on. One day I shall try to get the other variable fixed.

Today has been totally unproductive.

So I don't have anything to share T_T

Day 6

If I were a Thai, today would be one of my happiest days.

Been sneezing uncontrollably ever since I came back from lunch with three people who should remain in anonymity. 

Sneezing equals to happiness?

No. But yes.

Thais believe that whenever you sneeze, someone, somewhere is thinking of you.

-source: A movie titled "Seasons Change".

I've never stopped sneezing for the whole evening. This must mean that there are a lot of people actually missing me. I am delighted indeed.

I am in fact typing this and sneezing in irregular intervals. My nose is running without feet. I am going to get sick in any minute from now, or maybe I had gotten sick. 

Congratulations, I should say to myself, for I am the cause of my own sickness.

Main reason must be sleeping during times that I am not supposed to sleep.

Second possible cause: I drank iced lemon tea, which is diuretic (I guess). I'm feeling thirsty every second. 

Third reason seems legit. Someone must be missing me! That's why I'm sneezing a lot.

Sorry for my perasan-ness. I just can't stop from giving self-motivation to myself.

Day 5

What? Day 5?

I am shocked. How can that be possible? It feels like yesterday when I saw luxurious cars entering Akasia, parents helping their children to carry their bags into the car and everyone around me exchanging the same annoying question, "You're not going back yet?"

Today's been better, I shall say. This is mainly because I studied half of Bio Topic 4 and I can still remember what I read hours ago. A pretty good sign for a forgetful person like me, I guess. Bio report remains untouched, what more to say Bio presentation. I plan to do everything at the eleventh hour. No, just kidding. I'll start everything...tomorrow.

Slept very late last night (I'm sure you don't want to know the details), at first I was doing my Bio notes, concentrating very well, but then I thought of going online for a while. And errrr..it's hard to stop. A while became quite a long while. First, headphones on, then...I slowly got away from the books.

Anyway I managed to stop when suddenly I felt like picking up my guitar to play a few songs which have been playing in my mind. At that moment I felt like strumming some random chords which I had in my mind since a few weeks ago - well I never had time to really sit and think of any fresh ideas for the lyrics. Last night I thought of some.

Continued scribbling my notebook and the whole song gradually appeared. It was a little bit tough, not knowing the true direction of the lyrics. And it turned out to be quite a depressing song.

I tried to write more this afternoon to complete the chorus, but I'm still looking for some things to say in my final two lines of the first chorus. I thought that the water might help me to give some inspiration, so I stopped working on it and bathed, hoping that somehow I'll be able to finish it today because I know if I don't, I'm just going to abandon it like a few others in the past.

I still can't complete it, and my fingers hurt.

Well let's move on to something else.

There was this awkward moment before I logged in here just now. Believe it or not, I've been having this thing on my blog since time immemorial, and only just now I noticed that..

Maybe this is the effect of honey? I remember myself googling about the benefits of honey as I enjoyed my mug of warm water with honey. The moment I saw the lengthy paragraph, I almost immediately closed the website. Maybe honey helps me to concentrate more? Maybe I'll be smarter after this. Aaaa I am happy. Thank you, lame chop friends for always mentioning honey in front of me. Now I can't live a single day without a dosage of honey :P

I feel like being syok sendiri.

And ah, just in case anybody misses Akasia, I would like to generously share this photo:

Come back quickly. Akasia is sad without you guys.

A picture of yesterday, before the heavy rain. I like it when there are dark clouds but sunshine at the same time. Vely beautiful indeed.

So yeah, will share the depressing song once I have the inspiration to complete it.

See you tomorrow.

..and err..this braodband is not bad at all. Exceeded quota but still quite fast lol.

Day 4

I studied Photosynthesis. (but I doubt I remember a thing).

Finished reading two books, and now I'm halfway with the third.

Yes I am happy.

....but...I'm having a very slow internet connection and now I'm freaking out that I haven't even started a single thing about my Bio report.

Habislah.

Been doing nothing much today. Not in the mood to go online because apparently this slow connection is a little bit annoying, and to be honest I find that reading is more beneficial. Haha. 

..and just now I've realised that it's not peculiar that I had a childhood crush with Inspector (or Superintendent) Jenks from the Five-Find Outers series. Reading one of the books once again reminded me on how I used to imagine him as one handsome, young and caring guy, judging from the way he talks to the kids. Heh.

It's currently raining in this place, and it's rather weird to say that these past few nights had been cold. Probably because there's less emission of greenhouse gases since almost all of the people are back in their respective hometowns. 

Nothing much to say. I wish to complete my notes on Light-Independent Reactions and test myself whether I truly understand what the heck am I studying. Yeah, sounding like a nerd and one troubled student in a single sentence.

Will continue with report on Day 5, hopefully. I just hope that this slow connection is not going to kill my spirit of surviving this break. 

I will survive.

Day 3

I've successfully reached the quota for my broadband.

So maybe I have to stop doing all of these daily reports and focus on the real report I need to finish, which is my Bio report.

I don't know why I seem to be exceeding the quota for every month this year. Haven't really been to YouTube recently. Hmm.

Managed to do some maths homework this evening, after some sleep in the afternoon. I don't really feel like doing maths anyway. All I want to do is to finish reading the books that I borrowed. But ah, I'm so bad in doing different things at one go. I'd rather focus with one first, and too bad I don't really know how to set my priorities right. 

I've also found out that the more I read, the more I have this feeling of writing and continuing my so-called novel project which has been left hanging ever since I landed in this place where people seem to value science and maths more than arts. Well I know it's rather inappropriate to say so because those are the things which we are supposed to study based on what we're taking now. I wasn't really sure of my true interest anyway. I'm still not even really sure now, because I love both of them, and back in a few months ago I knew that I had to eventually choose one which will determine where I'm heading to in the future.

Man, why did I explain everything so deeply?

This is supposed to be a daily report. Gah.

One fun thing about today is that I was stopped by the guard of our local supermarket for wearing my black sweater. I was annoyed at first, but soon it came to my mind that I should be happy because my appearance must have looked pretty much like a shoplifter, which means that I don't have an innocent school nerd look after all. Or maybe I looked like a street kid. Just kidding. Whatever the guard thought of me, it's quite shocking because I've walked in without any problem before this despite of having the sweater on me. So today I had to take it off and leave it outside.

...and I guess my mum won't be proud of me if she saw the things that I bought. 

I'm quite skinny, most of the people around me say so. (But to me I have a normal weight and I'm perfectly happy with the degree of my fatness. I'm not that skinny, ok. I have fats on both side of my cheeks). That refutes their statement. 

Not many know that I have a nafsu makan yang besar. I'm one of those people who can feel really hungry around 2am and walk into the kitchen to prepare something. Something oily, eggy and contains a lot of calories. I'm never satisfied with bread. Or oat. Or nestum. They do make me happy, sometimes, but nothing beats a meal which is fried. And I'm pretty much having some regrets that I can't fry a single thing at night during this whole break because of my own reluctance of booking a flight ticket months ago. Upgrade konon. Serves me right. Now I'm the one suffering, thinking of how good it would be if I'm at home with all the food and ingredients that I can transform into something awesome.

So to console myself, I did a massive shopping spree for food. 

When I say massive, I mean what I say and I say what I mean.

My mum likes to say don't try to be stingy when it comes to food. But now, thinking of Aristotle punya konsep of jalan tengah which we learnt early this sem in Ethics, I think this is the last time I'm doing so. 

Still it doesn't beat the fact that I can't cook here grrrr. I still have to depend on instant stuff whenever I'm hungry around 2am. I am sad.

..and staying in the hostel for the rest of the day pretty much encourages my mind to eat something every minute. 

There you have it, report on Day 3 is all about food, hunger, and still no proper moments of studying. 

Day 2

I just want to see the progress (if there is any) that I'm doing during this break.

Unusual day for me, as I woke up super early on a Sunday morning. Never have I seen the sunrise in Akasia on one Sunday morning, honestly. It was great, although I had to walk out of the gate with bloodshot eyes thanks to my own reluctance of going to bed early "because it's the weekend".

Felt like I was the daughter of my two seniors as I sat in the backseat of the car. We must have looked like one happy single-child family on their way to church. Just kidding.

Had an awkward moment sitting alone while waiting for the service to start, but it was fun anyway being able to  listen to and see the worship team practising. Time passed by quite fast. Well last week I was really hoping for a moment of being silent and alone, and yeah, there I got it.

..and for the first time in my entire life I attended two services in one day, I mean two continuous services. I am astonished of what I've gone through this morning. I didn't even waste a single hour since 6.10am :D

But yeah. I guess you know what I did for the whole evening. The rain made it a nice evening..just perfect for me to recharge my almost dying battery, still in my Sunday best. If my mum didn't call me, I would probably still be in charging state till now. 

I can see some deterioration. On Day 1, I said "ah..it's OK..it's still day 1..". Today I seem to be saying the same thing. Oh no I better wake up now. 

Maths is waiting. 

Bio is waiting.

Chemistry is waiting.

No, they're not waiting for me. 

Why oh why sleeping in the evening is just so goooood?

Day 1

Welcome to the mid sem break report series.

Gladly bringing to you the first report of the week.

What does revenge means to you? Revenge, to me, means sleeping at the oddest hours...and waking up proudly without the help of an alarm clock...after weeks of not being able to do so. I don't know why do I call it as revenge. Forget about it.

Did something useful, at least I didn't waste my afternoon. Well, judging from the way I arrange my books and the condition of my table and locker, you might think that I'm a not so tidy person, but I have this kind of cranky feeling whenever I see an untidy kitchen. Do I sound normal? Yes, I think. I like a clean kitchen. And it's sad to say that ours in Akasia isn't so clean. (I hope my housemates won't read this). So you go figure out of what I've done.

My fingers of my left hand still hurt after last night's awesome jam session. It was my first official acoustic jam in Akasia, so yeah, thank you, studio owner and jam friend. I'm seriously looking forward to more jam sessions in the future. Maybe on a rooftop before I grow older.  Jam friend, if you're reading this right now, do practise your B and G#m and F# chords. Just kidding :D And maybe we can upgrade into something like this before we leave this town:

Yeah, sometimes I'm being too ambitious. But it's something fun to imagine XD

Been doing nothing much today. Planning to finish reading Danny the Champion of the World by today so that I can start reading Enid Blyton's Five Found-Outers. Just want to bring back some old childhood memories during this holiday. Thank you, college library.

Mid Sem break plan: Room mate's books borrowed from college library. (I hope she's not a reader of my blog). XD

Mid Sem break plan: The books that I borrowed from college library.

The irony XD

By the way, college library is the coolest place to escape from everyone and the annoying things around you. I spent almost all of my whole afternoon/evening in the library this week, flipping through pages which made me feel happy of being alone with only books..and..guitar magazines! :D Found this awesome collection of guitar mags, full compilation of the 90's-2000. Old mags, but very fun to flip through.

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So yeah, I still have hours left to finish this day. I don't know how fun or bad this week is going to be before classes resume, but till then, I guess all I have to pretend is that...

I have this on my notice board. Some random ad from a mag. Just for self-motivation purposes and to avoid homesickenia.