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Archive for November 2006

exams will be over soon…

Posted by: sophiasophie on: November 30, 2006

yes, a few more hours and its going to be all over.
plans for a ‘berlin’ weekend are set. by that i mean a weekend (i.e Friday, Saturday and Sunday) of no school, no work, no studying, no nothing. sounds dreadfully boring I know, but I’ll think of something to do. Decided to try new stuff, Flaming Lamborghini [...]

Engineers are cool.

Posted by: sophiasophie on: November 28, 2006

An engineer was crossing the road one day, when a frog called out to him and said, “If you kiss me I’ll turn back into a beautiful princess”He bent over, picked up the frog and put it in his pocket.The frog spoke up again and said “If you kiss me I’ll turn back into a beautiful [...]

i feel the christmas

Posted by: sophiasophie on: November 24, 2006

yes. its that time of the year again. the streets are decked, mickey is telling you to join him and his friend’s at disneyland hongkong and christmas ads are on all the channels and the parents start telling you the dates to be kept free for various christmas and end-of-year family things. My extended family is [...]

enough is enough

Posted by: sophiasophie on: November 23, 2006

ok. i’m stupid and i deleted a post which i did not mean to delete. oh well. 
ok. yesterday. studied for a bit. then went over to the grandma’s place to be regaled with paris adventures. well, not adventures per se, I mean how wild can you get if you are 80+ years old. but she did [...]

once in a while…

Posted by: sophiasophie on: November 20, 2006

a song like this comes around and touches you. haha. ok i’m being melodramatic here. i’m in a sappy mood. the weather is totally to blame. all rainy and windy and so december-ry.
Presenting Meat Loaf and Marion Raven.

Yes. Its a Celine Dion remake of a Pandora’s Box’s song. (i think)

exams & fun

Posted by: sophiasophie on: November 19, 2006

ok, the excit-o-meter reading in my life is slightly higher than usual these couple of days. besides the usual studying for exams and finishing with the end-of-term reports and presentations (last week), I have been doing little (ok, maybe much much) more than school related boringness.
there is the starting of my thesis (my prof was [...]

pig-headedness is not good in excess

Posted by: sophiasophie on: November 15, 2006

you know, attending german classes outside school are really tiring. however interestingly, its not the late hours that are making me exhausted. an eclectic mix of people make up my class – spouses of german expatraites (the ladies are always all glitter, make-up and ornaments), working adults (most of whom really clueless in class and have german interaction once [...]

oh, begone with thee, flu!

Posted by: sophiasophie on: November 8, 2006

gah. i am sick. like world-spinning, slip-in-and-out-of sleep sick. but am feeling slightly better today. have shit due at the library and am chocking up fines, but who cares. and i have a presentation in 4hours which i shall just go and get it over and done with, later this afternoon.
on another note, when you look [...]

its over!!!

Posted by: sophiasophie on: November 4, 2006

yes. it is finally over. even though we didn’t win. but we are happy-ish with our results.
Ryan did good.
Now onward to the rest of the things that I have to complete.

i (heart) FYP

Posted by: sophiasophie on: November 1, 2006

have started german lessons after all this time. spent like ALL my money on it but i’m sure it will work out for the best. more and more are entering the world of the employed and its kind of scary, somewhat. and i feel like i shouldn’t like work-work yet, you know. afterall, i am just 21, and too young [...]