.birthdays and EEGs.
the past couple of days have left me pretty much sleep-deprived. though comparing myself in the contexts of joel's definition of sleep-deprivation would be a crime... still... been pretty much exhausted this week. after my event-filled monday and tuesday... i apparently missed the memo regarding the party's extention till saturday night. not that i have any complaints! hell no! my birthday this year was nothing but spectacular and i have my amazing family and friends to thank for that ;)
realising that my intended movie marathon at hoyts on wednesday would burn a massive hole in my pocket, i decided to spend the day in bed watching alias re-runs with max. and to prove i have the coolest mom in the world... i called her when i got up... which was at about 1pm ;p instead of telling me to get out of bed... she said... and i quote... "order in some food... watch lots of alias... and DO NOT under any circumstances, get out of bed before 5pm!" yes ma'am! i have an awesome mom or what?! hehehe... but my sloth mode had to be switched off by 6pm when hizwan came over and hung out for a while...
it's strange how i never noticed it before. all this while, co-existing with my friends who've made it into melbourne uni, and being the only one fighting to get back in... i never realised how incapaciting it all can be. granted, i find myself terrified and doubtful 90% of the time, but i always believed that this matter wasn't even worth discussing. it's melbourne uni by february... and that's the end of it. hizwan's a great guy and an even more capable student (though he'd argue with me on that one ;p). but in the face of all the intimidation and expectations put upon us - mostly by ourselves - the possibility of failing again... of being disappointed again... becomes all to real. it was humanising sitting on the couch with him and just talking it out, with someone who actually gets it... something i haven't been able to do in a while. it's our harvard, right hizwan? and you owe me a hundred bucks if you're standing in melbourne uni 9 months from now with me! ;)
so after all that talk, we needed food ;p by 8pm we'd found a table at *drumroll*... ying thai! the infamous thai restaurant on lygon which had once become my usual hangout when i occupied the corner of grattan and cardigan street. it was so nice to be back in that part of town... almost poetic considering it was where i spent my birthday last year ;) thanks for the dinner hizwan... though you must know the only reason i didn't kick you was cause it was for my birthday! ;p deciding that we needed ice-cream too, we picked up our old friend safuraa (who is now joe's classmate! how cool is that?!), and went for some freddo's. we took some random pictures in the park before heading home at close to midnight.
thursday was a pretty slow day... classes as usual with one of my paper's being returned. though i scored above the average, it would have been SO much nicer to see a HD stamped on the front page instead of a C (which is a credit people... not the torturous mark the alphabet is usually associated with...). oh well... more trying required i suppose :(
friday was back to party mode! along with jack (kim fui), jacqueline, sam, her friends - raymond and jack chi - ken and mush, i managed to watch spiderman 3 THE DAY AFTER premiere! and how was the movie? worth the entire 2.5 hours and 11 dollars i put into it ;p plus, it was also the first time all year that i'd been in the city after midnight, thanks to a certain someone nice enough to drive me home at 2am. i've been left out of lots these past few months for living in south yarra, but for that one night i was allowed to be one of the other kids and cared less about when the trains and trams stopped running ;) talk about a perfect way to end my birthday week...
BUT WAIT!
2 hours after arriving home from the movies, jack tells me that i'm to have dinner with him and joel at 7pm the following night... their making it up to me for not being there on the night of the surprise visit. so on saturday night, me and the two boys had a great dinner at lemongrass on lygon ;) joe had to go back to work by 9, so jacqueline, sam and mark met up with me and jack at lygon park before walking to melbourne central and od-ed on more max brenner ;) jack was so interested with the sukaos that he ended up refilling the milk jar 3 times! good job jack ;) hehehe...
so yeah... my birthday ended up spanning almost a week. a week a longer than i had ever anticipated ;p and to cap it all off... my favourite lecturer was in attendence this morning... yay!
for over the past year, i've read about my best friend cammy's experiences at auckland university. in her posts, she often talks about a certain teacher by the name of colin quilter who has, even till now, influenced her and motivated her to take pride and truly love what she's doing. and in all honesty cam... i think you would've missed him if you'd gone to medical school with rory ;p hehehe. today... i realised that i have a 'colin quilter' of my own. and his name is alex mussap.
he's lectured in my introduction to psychology A lecture 3 times already, and each time he manages to get an entire theatre of close to 700 stading in applause upon conclusion. he makes topics like neuroanatomy and the study of concsiousness and brain activity so scintillating and even down-right hillarious at times, that it makes you want to just run home and pick up the textbook to start all over again! though i kicked myself for oversleeping and missing half his lecture today, i was really glad i made it for the remaining hour. it's through days like today, from classes like his, that i am made to forget about my obsession with melbourne uni.... but only for about 2 hours ;) and as always, i listened sadly as he told of all the things he plans to teach us as 2nd years. maybe i'll come back and sit in on his classes ;)
so yeah... that's my week in a REALLY LARGE nutshell ;p looking forward to mom and hafiz coming over next week and the pile of dishes i'll need to attack before then ;)
