he wasn’t kidding when he said the RA work was tough. sitting three hours in prof Y’s office, staring at that bigass database was not exactly my idea of funnage. BUT, at least i got to pick his brains and see how he does research. which is quite a fortunate thing! but sigh, two bigass databases for the next six months is…SCARY. zorrrrrk.

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whilst waiting for the data to generate, we discussed career options. which makes me feel like I am living on borrowed time now. all these decisions to be made are like slender reeds that twist around your wrists, knotting themselves as you move along. and one day, you find yourself immoblised.

decisions. SUCH a terrible grown-up poncy word. slender ties that immobilise.

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and snowpatrol speaketh.

Do the things that you always wanted to
Without me there to hold you back don't think just do
More than anything I want to see you girl
Take a glorious bite out of the whole world

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and God speaketh (somewhat!)

And we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, and joyfully giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light. For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. Col 1: 10-14.

*thinks not-so-fluffy thoughts*

HELLO MY SHINY BLOG. i’ve not seen you in a bit, dear one. and know i should be filling you up with ALL THE FANTABULOUS things we did in italy and greece. *squee*

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but meanwhile in reality. today i had a sinking feeling. getting the email about choosing modules for masters is bad. not because the modules are boring (well, some are). but for the even more banal reason that i don’t even understand the instructions on how to register for a module.

hello, woman, speaketh engrish pwease. i read that long email THREE times, and the documents twice and I. STILL. DON’T. UNDERSTAND. non capisco, mai khao zhai, buzhidao. Absolutely Miserable. but then again, i rather stare (and stare. and stare and stare and stare) at those pixels then hyperventilate over the idiot thingamajig that is CORS. evil guffaws.

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and in the alternate reality that is the job front, things are looking shiny. i love that my job pays me cpf and at just a SLIGHLTY lower wage than what the other REAL job would have paid. if i had accepted that offer, i would have begun yesterday, wearing my spiffy pinstripe suit and squeezed into heels and prancing to shenton way. but no, yesterday, i woke up at 845am. and begun work at 9, in my room. with a cup of coffee and wearing a vcf-camp teeshirt. and did things i actually love. (ok i hated reading those long boring abstracts in chinese, but those were only a few). RA-ing is my dream job.

well, kinda, dreamjobish. i dunno. i ish confused over my whole job prospect thing. like, seriously majorly befuddled. i is lacking the garang gene. and the dreambig gene. and the eat rainbows and poop butterflies gene. sigh.

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in other news, le scab from le terrible fall in Thessaloniki has transformed into something really kewl. my skin cells display a wonderful spectrum of the colour brown and yellow. i look like i’ve a slice of Mars on my knee. or the moon.

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in other interplanetary news, my mother just asked what happened to the football that was on the parapet outside my window. i told her the aliens abducted it. and then she smelt someone cooking curry (at 12.30am. DUDE. not fun), and concluded that the neighbours must be cooking the aliens who abducted the football. my mum is funny.

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dear neighbour, stop burning joss paper at 1am. YOU ARE GIVING ME A FLU. *hurls silent abuse* roar. you are not protecting yourself from vampires this way. they see the smoke and know it is you. and the vampires will jump into your house and eat your alien curry and take away your alien football. and do other random vampire things like kungfu kicks. *kick*