essays Friday, Nov 28 2008

Instead of sitting in front of my laptop thinking of something intelligent to write about, maybe I should begin work on my PIL essay, due Week 10. Or perhaps my second History essay of the term, due in the same week — just three days beforehand. Or there’s that moot to think about, where I’m going to (attempt to) debate UCTA against counterparts from the same region. Or maybe begin some Medical Law reading. Or Administrative Law reading.

But no, I’m quite content sitting here, clicking away on my laptop. The rhythmic sound of keys clacking is quite therapeutic; it has a soothing effect.

And I’m also waiting for Tim to get back from the gym so we can attack House of Fraser together today. There was 30% discount at Ted Baker between the insane hours of 7.00am and 9.30am today, but after a few muffled, unintelligible, grumpy phone calls, we realised there was no point trooping down to Regent Street so early and fight the crowds at the store.

Right, going to get ready!

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rush rush Thursday, Nov 27 2008

Don’t you love the feeling of being busy — but at the same time, don’t you hate it when you start being double-booked?

I have two further essays due before the end of term. I know they’re due in, but being Natasha Chan, I know I’m not going to be begin working on them until next weekend, and perhaps not even stressing about them till the night before they’re due. I have so much catch-up work for PIL to do, it’s so not funny. Other than the normal essay woes, school is going very very well indeed. (: Jas and I are mooting again next week, and then I have Retrophilia later that night to attend.

Tash + retro clothes + cheesy music = thumbs up but + Mambo = NOOO.

Jiang Yue and I are also seeing Josh Hartnett in Rain Man on the West End tomorrow night. The people I talked to scoffed at me blatantly propounding the fact that the only reason I’m catching the play is because of Josh Hartnett <3 but I really don’t care. Jiang Yue and I haven’t done the whole dinner-play-supper thing in a while (the last one was – shock – The Phantom of the Opera, so I’m looking forward to having her for myself for one whole night, mwahaha.)

The last netball match we played, against King’s 4ths, was pretty crap. My GA was about a foot taller than me, with the most ridiculous arm span alive, so we were trashed 45-5. Not the most fun match, especially when it was so cold out that one of us succumbed to the pains of early-onset athritis. It also took us 45 minutes to find the netball courts from Canada Water because of a faulty map provided by the opposition, and it started raining at the very beginning. I’m looking forward to netball with the Pandas this Sunday though!

And if you’re reading and want to come for ice skating next week with my society, please tell me! The more, the merrier!

P.S. This post has been re-edited following a terrifying string of typos and grammatical errors. I was writing during PIL lecture yesterday, and had to stop every so often to take down notes about pirates! Arrr.

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snow! Sunday, Nov 23 2008

It’s snowing outside now; the grass in our mini communal garden, and the lawn furniture in our little courtyard (the only entrance to is from my room, HAHA) is peppered  with a thin layer of frost. Being caught in a freak snowstorm while out of the house this morning was cold, but it was also quite cool to see little bits of ice flaking down out of nowhere — only to turn into monster balls of slush which adhered to my hair, my puffie, and my hot cup of tea. So I dashed back home and realised to my surprise that Kooyeon had actually hoovered the carpet, and that the towering pile of dishes in the sink had disappeared.

So while it is disappointing that I have to sit at home and work on my essay rather than run around outside playing netball, at least I get to do it in a clean, warm house. YAY.

I caught up with Shazzles yesterday over udon (hers) and a huge plate of steaming rice and katsu curry at Misato yesterday. We both had wonderful things to tell each other — and it was just like the old times, when we’d run far far away from Bankside and hole ourselves up in a restaurant somewhere and eat and talk … and eat and talk. And then, horror of horrors, I managed to persuade her to have Ben & Jerry’s with me (which she didn’t talk me out of, HAHA take that Tim!) and we sat around Leicester Square reminiscing about our weekly eating sessions, heehee.

And then after, I cooped myself up in the Library and attempted to finish reading for my essay — like a hundred like-minded people who were doing similar things on a Saturday afternoon. (No, my essay’s still currently at 0 words, thank you for asking, haha!) And then I went over to Tim’s, guzzled a whole stack of Celebrations and tried to finish Medical Law reading for class next week. Except then I got distracted by YouTube and by Tim’s collection of really random, really old, really great songs from the 1990s and 2000s, and ended up dancing around like a fool and singing my heart out to Britney Spears for a good few hours.

Life is good.

Except now it’s snowing/raining and I can’t play netball. :c

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money Saturday, Nov 22 2008

I may be 80 pounds poorer…

… but I am one pair of (gorgeous Asics) netball shoes happier. (:

Cross your fingers that my persistent arch-of-foot pain disappears now that i have proper shoes. I can’t wait to play in them on Sunday!

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wonky Thursday, Nov 20 2008

My wonky right foot is even more wonky now because of netball — I can’t put any weight on the left side of my right foot without feeling sharp pain shoot up it — but I couldn’t have asked for a better match this afternoon. We weren’t bad compared to the 5ths; our only problem was our conversion rate, because way too many balls hit the rim of the net and were seized for rebound. Defence was tight today, something which makes me especially happy. I think my game’s actually getting better, and I’m benefiting from playing with the 7ths. Yay. (:

I guess playing for the Crazy Pandas for a while now has made me forget that communication is vital when playing with new people in netball though. I grew so used to playing with Shinling, working as a GD/GK pair, that I’ve forgotten that my fellow GK is not yet in tune with my playing style – and gesticulating wildly after some afterthought doesn’t really help matters much.

I’m so busy over the next few days: dinner with the Indo-Brunei Society tomorrow night in Bayswater, followed by some UCLU clubbing event at the Strand somewhere which I will pop over for a while only, meeting on Friday morning, appointment at 1 pm, and perhaps a bit of rest and relaxation before netball training with the Pandas on Sunday. And somehow, I got roped into the SingSoc clubbing event in Week 9 – along with AU Christmas carolling and team dinners in the last two weeks of term. Argh.

The fireworks at Berrylands tonight was well-worth the wait though. Shinling, Dee and I waited for a good few hours, playing drinking games with the netball squads which were there, eating not so great BBQ, sat through Women’s Rugby karaoke, and generally chatting and messing around before the lovely explosions at just before 9. (: I haven’t seen such great fireworks in a while, and I think the AU must have gone all out to make sure that we all had a good time. No one expected it to be so great, and I think everyone was glad that they stayed.

Off to bed!

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chapter Wednesday, Nov 19 2008

I’d forgotten what true, pure, unadulterated happiness felt like.

I’d forgotten the feeling of security, of reassurance, of commitment, of not having to think or plan, of deciphering schemes and uncracking plots and finding out secrets and lies (although I don’t miss that at all) — of living in the moment and rejoicing in every second.

Until now.

1 Corinthians 13:4-7
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

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netball Sunday, Nov 9 2008

I freaking love this game.

P.S. On an unrelated note, in any given relationship — be it friendship or otherwise — an element of trust is necessary. I wish you would stop lying to me. I’m not stupid.

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uh oh Thursday, Nov 6 2008

Everyone has their own favourite computer lab in school. I have mine too — except I’m not in it now, since everyone (and their mothers!) have decided that they love my computer lab too and have decided to plonk themselves in front of all available terminals after I popped out for half an hour to grab brunch. So now, I’m stuck in the bigger adjacent computer lab: less comfortable, more exposed (I feel like I’m sitting in a fishbowl) and well, just not right. Pfft.

Well, I have a History essay due on Monday, which is one of those “WTF?!?!?” kind of moments because I only realised this after having been told on a quick water-run to Wright’s Bar. I had absolutely no idea that the essay was due next week, even though I suspected the deadline was pretty soon. I don’t know the way the History department works, but I’m used to being reminded on a weekly basis that essay deadlines are looming nearer and nearer… Maybe Law students are just bad at remembering dates and deadlines or something! So, YEAH, WTF MAN, MONDAY. My days are packed and I need to use this two-hour break (I’ve already spent two of it lolling around and doing jack-all) profitably. There’s a Medical Law essay due in a week and a half’s time, and I’m mooting on Wednesday — after Espionage, after netball training, after a netball game… OMG. I’m going to die.

Mooting is also giving me a headache. Jasmine and I are partnering each other this year, and I’m relieved so far because the first qualification round’s moot is a Criminal Law case on the Offences Against the Person Act and nothing to do (yet) with Property II or any other compulsory module I’m not taking this year. I’ve sold my 3rd edition copy of Herring with that chapter on the Fraud Act though, so now I have to find some ingenious way of monopolising a Library copy of that book before everyone decides to too. Guh.

I’ve taken to writing down a list of to-dos for every task I find challenging, because the act of ticking off completed tasks (however mundane or petty or small they are) makes me feel accomplished. So far, I’ve ticked off ‘email Language Centre’ and ‘email classmate about seminar notes’ off my list. The ‘read x for History essay’ remains scrawled down, untouched, in small robotic handwriting.

It’s insanely good to feel busy though.

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netball Thursday, Nov 6 2008

My left quad muscle hurts like a biatch. It’s an old sports injury from this summer that hasn’t seemed to have healed properly. It’s constantly tight, and whenever I strain it through sport (and in particular my weekly, sometimes twice-weekly netball sessions) it begins to ache and needs to be stretched out. There’s also some sort of strain on a muscle within my right foot, which also acts up when I play too much netball. I don’t know what I did to my body, but it isn’t very pleasant.

We played netball against the 6ths today, and it wasn’t such a bad game. I REALLY love this game — it’s so addictive. I’ll be playing with the Malaysian Club in Nottingham on Saturday, and the Winter Games are coming up as well. More netball = Happy Tash!

There are fireworks going off in the square outside my house, most probably put into place by kids from the surrounding blocks, to celebrate Guy Fawkes’ Night. I should be out watching the fireworks, but my entire house is actually in studying and after next to no sleep last night, the netball game this afternoon and my first ever official event as the President of the Indo-Brunei Society tomorrow, I think I need this night in.

Back to treaties!

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underground Wednesday, Nov 5 2008

Leonard, Kooyeon and I just got back from the Underground, from the massive Presidential Election party that is probably in full swing now. It was a fun night — we managed to get seats at the sofa with Aqil at the beginning of the night, and cheered as the CNN broadcast that was being aired showed fantastic projections for Obama. (: The atmosphere in the Underground was practically electric, and everyone was having such a great time — mingling, talking, taking advantage of the bar, and celebrating the Democrat win with every announcement of the projected votes. I have a 10 am seminar tomorrow and my attendance at that seems bleak at most (haha) but I wouldn’t have traded this night for anything. I’ll be playing netball tomorrow on like five hours of sleep, but this is history in the making. From the looks of it on Facebook, everyone is up celebrating Obama’s win!

I’m going to park myself in front of Leonard’s laptop and wait for Obama to take the podium.

Good night/morning everyone!

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