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the above is a photo of all the stuff i have in new york city, sitting sadly on the morning sidewalk waiting to be placed in summer storage for several months. all this stuff was accumulated over the past two years that i’ve been in college, and has quadrupled in spread since the last time i moved out for summer, which was exactly a year ago. it’s amazing how much junk i’ve amassed in the span of one year, and then two years. all these cases of unused stationery, baking tins and carefully pressed class notes seemed to appear out of nowhere as i was frantically packing. try as i did to grasp at straws, some things simply had no genealogy. but now suddenly they all have to be wrapped and put away in boxes, rolling up an old year and nestling away to await the new one.
so much has changed from a year ago. i’m currently in the foreign eternal city of Rome, where people smoke way too much, as well as make out way too much, sometimes simultaneously. i’ve been sleeping a lot. and skipping across sheer lakes of indescribable certainty. everything is perfect. i’m getting just a little sick of eating pasta, but besides that, yes, everything is wonderful. plus i’ve been having for breakfast some delicious yau char kwai from the chinese restaurant just up the street from the inn i’m staying at – and that’s always a good reason to rejoice.
i’m glad sophomore year is over. it’s been good in so many ways, and so busy, and so full of life, but i’m very ready for it to be gone. in four months i will return to college as a junior. half of my college career will have been over. it seems to me like just yesterday i was writing about how i’d procrastinated over studying for the SATs and surely i must be so screwed! but here i am. in some school, in some city, this many years later, doing way too much math than is necessary for happiness. pah. if i close my eyes i can sometimes bring myself back to that time. but two months ago i found this fork in the road and i picked it up. i’m not sure what’s going to happen but i want to keep staying tuned. i have so many stories but i dont know where to start. maybe i wont cos i’m lazy, and it’s 7am here now, which means it’s time for me to go to bed :) i’m so sleepy. so, goodnight! tanti baci da roma.
May 14th, 2010
my last final paper of the semester is due in two hours, and i’m something like 4 pages short of the minimum page requirement and about 20 pages short of a kick ass paper. so i’ve kind of given up. no wonder at all that my grade point average will never converge to a 4.0. but you know, sometimes i think it could, if i would just stop procrastinating, start getting on my shit a little earlier, and learn how to focus during crunch times like these. but what have i been doing in the past two hours? scrolling through facebook photos of people i miss. watching snippets of my favourite movies on netflix (for inspiration, konon). listening to the elephant love medley over and over again, and howling “WE COULD BE HEROES! just for one day…!” on my friends’ walls. logging into FRIENDSTER and curiously looking at old photos of old friends. reading about the Official Monster Raving Loony Party of the UK. researching places to visit in Rome (i’m leaving tomorrow!). dissolving into fits of giggles at arthur’s facebook status asking quite seriously how to say seal in Malay — the funniest answer being “encik heidi klum”. trying to figure out which HK star it is that martian’s friend adrian looks like. resuming my lifelong quest to find a “right song” for each of my best friends; so far only joe has a song, and it’s obviously the sound of silence by S&G. trying to finish my letter of polished sarcasm to our beloved Home Minister, about the exact shade of pink i got my toenails done in when my bag was snatched outside my house and the bounce in my mom’s freshly pressed curls when the cops told her to ‘balik tongsan’ when she went to lodge a report about her own mugging. walking one too many times over to starbucks for coffee refills. trying to get my desktop background image of a very sexy brigitte bardot to just the right shade of black and white… and all sorts of other frivolous things. life is so much more fun this way! omg will this paper just write itself already?
… WE COULD BE HEROES! forever and EVER!
PS: this is the funniest list ever: Truths for Mature People
May 9th, 2010
perhaps my most consequential handicap is my inability to make choices and never look back. such certainty and self-confidence in my own decision-making seems almost fictional to me sometimes, and i always watch with marked admiration people who know immediately what they want and how to get it. democracy is valuable to me and so i like to get everyone’s input, but most of the time i’m convinced that there is already a best solution somewhere out there that i am simply uneducated about; a median answer of sorts that i can arrive at only if i can find it in a large enough sample of opinions. and so i waffle and i ask and i table and i discuss, and after long last i finally arrive at that predestined best solution. it’s a long and redundant process, but at least at the end of the day there is an answer. yet, i don’t feel a sense of closeness to the outcome, because i didn’t recognize it from the outset. if something were meant to be, you would know it immediately the moment it presents itself to you, right? or maybe not, but most best solutions in the world seem to me to be that way: you come across something and you instantly know. sometimes if i’m lucky this does happen, and then i don’t look back when i make that decision. but like i said before, this happens so rarely that it feels almost fictional. and then of course sometimes i am wrong. i think i knew, but i didnt really. but nevertheless, i still follow my instincts when i encounter something that calls out to me. things that require some deliberation are not, then, the best outcome. by gradation, the more deliberation something requires, the less good it must be. but maybe sometimes our process of deliberation adds some kind of value in the sub-optimal outcome, and after some time, with all that imbued additional value, that outcome eventually emerges to be better than all the others.
May 4th, 2010
… from Miami, where THIS is happening:
raves in the US are like NO OTHER. we think we party hard back in msia, but this… damn.
tiesto, kaskade, dirty south, david guetta last night.
from main stage- pic taken from main site
tonight – benassi, deadmau5, SHM, armin! and oakenfold hahaha.
okay bye
March 27th, 2010
i found more!!! sorry, huge philosophy midterm coming up in four hours, and my brain needed some happiness. these are cordial exchanges with everybody’s favourite alien, Martian:
11 May 2008
Subject: (No subject)
Dear Mr Ng
Could you please buy this for me? Would appreciate quick revert
http://www.thedog-clubs.com/pupography/jr1.jpg
Warmest regards,
Su Ann Lim
//
Dear Su Ann
could you pls enumerate the cost-benefit analysis of owning this little beast.
Warmest regards and hugs
Martian’s Earth Name
Martian’s Earthly Job Title
Martian’s Earthly Firm
(haha his email signature from work cracks me up every single time)
——-
22 October 2007
Subject: Notification
Dear Mr Ng,
I think you are extremely good looking
Best regards,
Su Ann
//
Dear Su Ann,
Why thank you for your balanced judgement. I would most appreciate it if you take note of the symmetry between us.
Rgds,
Martian’s Earth Name
Martian’s Earthly Job Title
Martian’s Earthly Firm
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31 March 2008
Subject: Phone
Dear Mr Ng,
I write you this email to inform you that my phone batt has once again died. The new twist to this age old story is that the battery charger i bought at KLIA a week ago, is actually the wrong charger for my phone’s model. Needless to say I am very exasperated because I am now not contactable by the outside world.
I would really appreciate it if you would pick up a phone charger for me on your way back from work? The phone model is the Sony Ericsson W880i. I would be eternally grateful if you could do me this favour. As you know, my decision letters will be in today and there will be many phone calls to make. PLEASEEEE. :(
I even bought you that toilet paper!!
Best,
Su Ann
//
that guy at klia- he shd be murdered. cos you did say w880i.
hey why don’t we go together?
Earth Name
Earth Job Title
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11 April 2007
Subject: Greetings and Salutations
Dear Mr Ng,
It is with great pleasure that I inform you of the soon-to-be arrival of a totally cute pink egg shaped muffin on your doorstep. Estimated time of arrival is 2130 hours at the Hong Kong International Airport and 2230 hours at the IFC Airport Express station on the 11th of April 2007. We trust you will handle the delivered goods with the utmost care. In the event that you do not, we would like to pre-empt you that the aforementioned egg shaped muffin can and will be prone to bouts of sulkiness. Should such a situation arise, the solution is simple: you have to give it lots of lovin’. Either that or a Krispy Kreme donut. Or the Grey’s Anatomy Season 2 boxed set. Or a Fendi Spy. Or maybe just a lot of lovin’.
We hope that everything is to your satisfaction. Should you require further assistance, do not hesitate to contact us.
With best regards,
The Pink Egg Shaped Muffins Dispensary
//
haha it is with utmost cuteness that this is sent out. you can certainly expect great non-hesitation in contacting your good self.
Please note my new email: (Martian’s new work email)
Best regards
Earth name
Earth job title
<3
okay okay back to work. i’m this close to being done with midterms!!!
March 10th, 2010
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