just minishorts.

Of course life goes on.

Got myself a 256MB thumbdrive for a hundred bucks on Saturday.

My CD-RW broke down so I've to go shopping for a new one this Friday.

My second trip to HK has been postponed until Mum is freer… she doesn't feel too good about me travelling overseas in 'the state I'm in.' What state, Mum? What state?'

Apparently, my ba zi says its not right for me travel extensively this year, because I'll get into trouble somehow or the other, and now what's happened is sort of proof, so she's not going to allow it.

Because of that blank, I've got a six-day holiday to look forward to. And because it rains kucing dan anjing daily, I'm stuck in KL, because Mummy says, 'Cannot drive out of state. I'm not going to hear of you stuck in some flood with one or two of your devil-may-care colleagues.'

At work, I'm editing a terribly difficult to understand book of 8 SPM exam test papers (the author's English is veli-the-fantastic you know!!!). The level that these people use is so atrociously HIGH, that it takes me 2 hours to cut a 1500-word comprehension passage to the appropriate 650-word target.

I've been getting a lot of comments spam from the online-poker idiots. *grumble*

Been getting along pretty well with colleagues lately, so that's a plus sign in life!

Entering fourth semester of my Master's degree and the thesis has never seem so far out of reach until this week.

Been blogging a lot for a stupid reason of 'NEED TO'. But fortunately, its not damaging to health.

Had a talk with Nick the other night, which was amazingly enlightening. Coolest thing he told me was this, 'Girl, I kid you not. You wanted this to happen so badly. You wanted it, you wanted it.'

Liberation has never felt so good before. Now to implement it so that it lasts. And the Yo-yo fluctuations are lessening. Thank Heavens for that!!!

My second break-up with a friend was with my ex-bf. Before he became a boyfriend, that is. I was nearing 18.

We were classmates for the 4th year in a row. We were the only two students from the same class in Form 5, and hence we were rather compatible with each other. Now I can't be certain of the exact reason why I started to have a fallout with the guy, but I know it was somewhere around the end of my first year in Form 6. And it wasn't just me. It was an entire group of us that decided to ignore the guy in retribution for the things he was doing to us.

You see, we were elected to the Sixth Form Council, while my ex-bf wasn't. We had major projects lined-up for the entire year, and here was a non-committee member in , affecting the work we were trying to get done just because he was closer to the teachers. After a while the lot of us got fed up with the sight of him sitting in board-meetings we decided to boycott the dude. It was extra obvious on my part because I had previously been a close friend of his. (I was only a teenager, and yes, very petty.)

Again, this deliberate choice of not speaking to each other went on for ages. In a classroom of only 25-odd students, it was quite apparent. But somewhere along the way, after the passing on of duties to the next board, and the commencement of serious mugging for the STPM papers, we started talking to each other again. We would meet up during night study classes, and go out for breaks together. A few months after the STPM papers, we sort of 'fell in love' and the rest, as they say, is history, and we dated each other for three years before heading into a bigger fallout (now, we're not even in contact at all).

The purpose of all this? I'm not sure. Maybe I'm trying to check the kind of friendships I've been making with the opposite sex, especially the stranger, more significant ones that have happened in recent years. Call it a revision of past lessons.