so with the birthday season finally blowing over - for atleast another week or two - things have started to settle back down. classes have approached relative normalcy and days have proceeded to pass without specific intineraries or social schedules. basically... things are starting to quiet down... often to the point when i can actually hear the neurons firing impulses in my brain ;). with jacq, ai-lynn, mark and kevin studying for tests on thursday and friday, i've been 'instructed' to stay away at all costs. apparently, none of them can concentrate when i'm in the room! ;D even if i sit quietly in a rocking stupor by some isolated corner... they can't study with me around! how sad is that? not to their credit... but to mine, being such a distraction (more like noisy court-jester ;p) that information can't register in their brains by my mere presence. i feel like the haitian guy from heroes all of a sudden... hehehe...
but hey... if me keeping to myself helps them ace their exams... then it's all good by me. those kids have bailed me out plenty a time when work got too intimidating for me (i still call mark for chemistry advice!), and since a BSc curriculum doesn't happen to entail biochemistry, pharmacology, embryology and the like... it's the least i could do. but you guys know who to call when you need help with neuroanatomy and cognition... or when the chocolate fix comes knocking! ;p
so in the mean time... been spending lots of time watching alias re-runs on my laptop, tucked in bed with scruffy and max curled into a corner, and milk and cookies within reach. call it solitary bliss ;) for 15 months i'd been dependent on the presence of others to make me happy. granted, we were all living within walking distance of each other then, but still... company was a commodity i'd gotten accustomed to having. since moving to south yarra, a day out with my friends requires extensively advanced planning.... and money in the pocket :( therefore, as a new resolution following my 19th birthday, i'm trying to be happy on my own. ;) once upon a time i used to be content sitting in a corner with a book and my ipod, caring less about the ways of the world and attempting to inflict as little emotional distress to the people around me as possible. though that reality seems like a lifetime ago, i'm gravitating back to it. mom thinks i should start reading again... so i will... and i need to start
stop biting my nails again (that promise went out the door with confidence when my essays got submitted ;p).
but today is undoubtedly a celebrated one!
mom, hafiz, maktok and kak nur are arriving in approximately 6 hours!!! wooohooo! for three weeks i get to hang with my family and stock up on hugs! ;) no more running up to jacq asking for one! hehehe.... i am so excited there aren't even enough words to describe it. and since i missed mothers' day yesterday with mom being in kl and me over here, i got lots to make up for. and it all starts today...
what mom doesn't know is that i'm meeting her at the airport ;) she called last night to ask whether i was and i confidently said no ;p i know how restless she gets knowing i take a cab from wherever i am to tullamarine on my own. the few times i've picked her up have been in attendance of either ridwan or mark and kevin. but tonight's a school night, and with everyone living in or close to the city, i was prepared to make the journey alone this time. to make sure mom didn't make any transportation plans without me, i called hafiz to tell him i'd be at the airport when they arrived. so eventhough mom thinks i'll be waiting for her at chapel street, i can trust hafiz to ensure she doesn't board a maxicab and leave without me... i hope... ;p
with my chemistry lecture concluding at 4pm, i'll be stopping by the first available florist to get my standard order of a dozen yellow roses to bring for mom from me and fiz. estimating that i'll be home by no later than 5.30, i've got precisely 1 hour to finish cleaning the house before hizwan picks me up to go to the airport.
now i know what you're thinking. heck, when joe found out hizwan was driving me... he said the exact same thing. "
DON'T USE THE BOY!" as flattered as i am that you consider me 'cohones-ed' enough to manipulate someone in such a manner, no... i'm not
intentionally exploiting hiz's driving privelages. geographically, his house is closest to mine. so when hafiz suggested i call a friend to pacify mom in the event she finds out, i figured calling hizwan would be the most practical decision. amazingly, he agreed to come! better yet, when i told him he didn't have to drive, he argued that the cab fare i'd be paying is equivalent to a 2-week full tank of gas in his car... so he offered to drive me too! see! i am
completely innocent in the matter... truly a victim of circumstance! hehehehe.... but seriously, i know you hate it when i incessantly thank you... but you're awesome hizwan... thanks for helping me out the past few weeks ;) and i'm still buying you dinner... live with it!
so yeah... as usual i have a few hours to kill until my lecture at 3pm. now on to the most pressing question... WHAT DO I EAT FOR LUNCH?! so many choices... so little time... yum yum yum ;)
