These few days, between trying to get started on studying for my Language Disorders as well as my Augmentative Alternative Communication classes, watching 4 movies/plays and comparing it to the readings of the plays for my English Literature class and composing 2 papers from that... my mind is also filled with preparing for my GRE exam, trying to get started on my graduate school applications, and also trying to choreograph a Chinese dance for Fusion... This semester really is crazy. Honestly think that I made the wrong judgment in taking too many Speech Path classes. Ah, I really have so much on my plate right now it's kind of overwhelming.
If not for the most random happy moments, I think I might just go into a slight bout of depression. I've been spending at least 3 hours every day this week at the Architecture Library to finish up the movies: Agamemnon, Eumenides and two versions of Oedipus... sounds deep and literature-y huh. It's old European literature, that's why. Spending that time in the library just gets me slightly brain dead. If you know me well, you will know that ever since forever, I have found it difficult to sit at a table and study. So forcing myself to sit at a table in front of the computer for 3 hours to watch a movie while taking notes, really is an energy-draining feat for me. At least in the end, I come back home to two very crazy housemates. When the three of us are at home together, we just end up 'playing' (I use that word because I can't describe what we do with any other word) the whole time. Bridget and her antics of running around the house acting like me. Annie with her online shopping fetish. Me... just staring at the two of them rolling my eyes. Then Bridget turns on her Ipod and sings at the top of her lungs, repeating the same few lines over and over again. Annie runs into the room and puts on some of her clothes showing us the 'type of style' that she wants to have. "Does this match? I want to be fashionable when I go to class, okay!!!" Bridget and I look at each other, we roll our eyes. Throughout all this, usually I'm the mellow one. Attempting to not pay attention to the crazy housemates. But in the end, they still drag me into their silly circle. "Open your eyes as wide as you can, SuLing!" they say.. (because they know I can't open my eyes any wider than they already are) and they burst out laughing. "This is how Hui opens her eyes," Bridget says and makes a Hui face. We crack up. Bridget came up with a lame one yesterday and said, "Girls! Whenever we stir anything now we have to do a little dance." (shakes her butt in a circular motion while saying something like "chike chike, chike chike") Annie indulges her and goes with the dance. Me? I just look at them, make a -__- face, and say "NO!!" Damn, I'm a pooper. haha.
Bridget's mum came over this past weekend just to look after us girls (more Bridget, really!). She cooked, cleaned and was just basically a mum to us for the weekend. It was nice and comforting. She made meatballs (they're delicious!) and gnocchi (I think that's how it's spelled - a kind of Italian potato pasta), mango and pineapple salsa for us to eat with chips, Turtle cake (chocolate and caramel cake), fried cauliflowers... it was so nice to have her around giving us random advice and laughing at the three of us when we're acting nuts together.
Then there's Hui's ever so often phonecalls with some crazy thing to tell me. Or needing me to say, "Stop thinking about him!" and then laughing at her silliness... Either that or she calls to brainstorm some brilliant idea that she has in her head... or, or she needs someone to express her frustration to. Then we end up talking about a whole bunch of random stuff for a long time..
And then there's my random hangouts with other people, like last night. Yeah, I try to branch out from my core group of friends every so often. Funny, I would not have done that in Freshman year. But I'm a Senior now! Managing to shoot every so often with Megan as my partner during 3 rounds of beer pong was so awesome that we won 2 out of 3 times.Bopping around to country music and club music. Listening to inappropriate talk (and rolling my eyes) by Alan about who's on top when a couple's having sex and looking at his pictures of him in a dress with makeup on... Then heading out to Skipper's and just chilling outside of it by the windows with the slight rain falling... The boys smoked cigars, I stayed away coz I hate the smoke. Megan and I danced to the music that was playing, just the two of us.
Ah, it's these moments that keep me sane and alive.
Here's another 15 Malaysia short movie called 'Meter'. It cracked me up.
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