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Mood: fine Inspiration of the day: I want to buy some french CDs. event of the week Swing dancing tonight
We're on tornado watch today. Man, it was so weird: during the tornado warning today at about 11am, every 10 minutes or so, the reports on the PA system will say where the tornado is (ie whether it's coming nearer), the announcer will very grimly remind us to stay in the basement and blah blah. My dance class happened to be in the basement anyway, so we carried on like nothing was going on. In fact, the teacher had a slightly amused irritated look everytime the announcements came on, and once, she commented quite sarcastically, "Ooh, looks like it's getting nearer." By the end of the class, the tornado warning was already over. When I finally came out of the building, the ground was wet, the air was cold and the streets were littered with leaves. Other than that, there was no sign of there being anything being amiss at all. And I went about doing my usual stuff. Hmm, my first tornado warning, and nothing happened at all. Such a boring life here. Sigh.
In other news, really, there's no news at all. This week has been rather relaxed for me, somehow. I just go about my classes as usual, no major pieces of homework due, no major sources of stress, nothing especially distressing. I have so much more time to read those books I said I wanted to read, listen to those CDs that I've been wanting to listen to for a long time, check out websites that I've always wanted to check out..and so on. Basically, I'm bumming around again. And it feels kinda good. And during times like this, I would be thinking too much. Fortunately, this time, I'm sort of just trying to visualise what my future will be like. And this is what I've come up with: for my very near future, ie the next 2 weeks, I'll be busy and stressed up over my exams. Then after that for summer, I'll be semi-busy, with both summer school and enjoying summer. Heh. Poach will be visiting me here while I'm taking summer school, so maybe I can show her around the cornfields. Hah. After summer school, touring Europe with my friends should be fun. But what I'm really looking forward to now is going home. To nice warm Singapore, where there's good food, where my family is, where I can hang out with my old friends. Man...out of all the UIUC friends here, I've been away from Singapore for the longest period of time. Most of them have already been home during the winter break. Even those who toured California with me are going home right away without doing summer school. One of them asked me how come I can take it, being so far away from home, for such a long time. Fact is, I'm quite homesick. Sigh. The coming fall semester is actually gonna be kinda tough for me, because I'll be taking several rather heavy engineering classes. Sigh. Retribution for having such a relaxed timetable this semester. Plus, I should probably be quite busy with SSA activities, Krannert activities and perhaps doing up this website too. Man, the more I think about it, the more I realise I've got too many great plans for next semester. Meaning, I'm going to suffer. Exciting plans, but I shall not think about them now. Heh.
Now to happier things, I'm just so glad that spring is finally here. The little pretty yellow flowers are popping up all over the place here..wherever there's grass, these flowers are there. I didn't used to believe my eyes when I saw pictures of meadows where there're flowers on the ground, cos all the flowers I've seen before, grow in bushes. Now I see these cute little flowers and I'm so worried about stepping on them. Anyway, I'm going off now for my nice little dinner with Angel. She agreed to help me translate the lyrics for those Japanese songs I've been listening to. Yes, I'm in a very good mood now. | |