For those like me, applying for NUS after the A's:

For the moment, relax because "Instructions for completing the Online Application Form Type I will be posted by February 2007."

"Admission exercise for AY2007-2008 will open three working days after the release of 2006 Singapore-Cambridge GCE ‘A’ Level results in March 2007" is what I got off the site, after at least half an hour of trawling through it. Interestingly, it is easier to find (ie, with one click) that "Singapore is a vibrant cosmopolitan city with a population of 3.5 million. Find out more about Singapore from the following external websites", than the actual application procedure.

Excuse me, this is a university. Are we catering for tourists or the student population?

Yes, my A's are done. No, I've not been free. Here's the breakdown-

Friday: sushi genocide with Khayce, Ed, Rich and Tor. Coffee after, saw Mich. Vivo city with Cass and Nadia after. Went ice creaming when Nadia abandoned us.

Saturday: Nick and Dawn's wedding banquet. Got a bit drunk. Har har, yesh.

Sunday: RK outing in afternoon, evening barbecue at Sentosa with MI people for Terence's birthday. Came home and cleaned barbie dolls to give nieces.

Monday: University application research. Dinner with Eldred.

Tuesday: Christmas shopping, D&D in evening.

So whoever says there's nothing to be done after the exams is obviously an idiot. On the other hand, I'll be much more free next week. So I'll be able to see assorted people and not to mention, get back on WoW too.

How far we have come. If at this time last year, you'd asked me to do a full exam I'd have though you were mad. Now I've had an intensive week of various combinations of papers from all my A level subjects. 2 sets of MCQ (of which one was a colouring session, being CLB), CSQ, 6 DRQ and 7 assorted essays. Thank god for the prelims that trained us for this mess. Yet, every hour or so, especially during my 3 hour papers I need to stop and stretch, or I'll get cramps after the thing.

It's a wonder I've lasted though the week. At the last entry I was dreading the start of this mountain of papers. I just hope that I haven't dreamed this moment of having got to Saturday. 2 papers left, it's too good to be true!

There used to be seven posters in my room. Now there is one. It's not LotR, WoW or even anime, but something given to me by someone I'm not even in contact with these days. Our paths crossed very briefly, I regret to say. She was a source of comfort, at the time. Someone I'll remember for the rest of my life, though we were together for only a handful of days. I hope she is doing well. She reminds me of the mermaid at the edge of the world of Narnia. If we meet again in the years to come, on the streets or train, I will surely greet her with an embrace.

Oh quick mayfly before-

Two weeks more. Twelve damn days. Eternity! But freedom is close, I can feel it. Yet I dare not look for if I falter-
Forver is nothing. Forever is twelve days. Twelve days to cry, dream, bleed. My pen flows. My life is ruled by pieces of paper.

There is time yet for Living

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So that was my share of teenage angst. I put this here because I want something to look at in the decades to come. Written in bed with indian ink. Yeah, at the ungodly hours of the morning that put you in strange moods.

Yes I have a long list of people to meet up with after this is done. Amanda, Mavis, the MI people (so that we can whine about the exams or assignments for poly bunch) and various IJ people. RK meetings go without saying. And the boyfriend too, of course.

I am writting this under the assumption that I'll be awake after the 24th. I'll be clearing out my room (including cleaning the walls) right after my last paper. Very unhappening, I know. What to do, the last time I cleared the place out was after my last major exam. That was two years ago, dammit. I think the resident dust bunnies have their own political systems by now.

Then I'll probably WoW for as long as I can before Gee kicks me off for MC or something. Calien needs some lovin'!