i need comfort food

think Haato yuzu sorbet and chocolate fudge cake.

i’m so exhausted again, i’m almost dead on my feet. my fingers are half-numb from rapid text messaging over what felt like a spectrum of topics. i reckon i messaged more people than i spoke to for the entire day, how screwed up is that? i have kind of lost track of who i haven’t replied to, i was so disoriented by all the different conversations.

and a single day brings over a hundred emails. what the fuck? not too oddly, my quietest day must be the Sat/Sun crossover. weekends are usually tamest, because people are not stuck to their computers and sending multiple emails about work and deadlines. technology woes reminds me of an old entry where i lamented about the chains of modern conveniences.

today was one big hectic circus of activity for me. from rushing to the bank early in the morning to get the direct credit form stamped for student job payments, to a hurried brunch, to a tutorial class, and then a mad dash to lecture. not to mention the fiasco at Macs when i popped by for quick pick-up that turned into a Maths 101 explanatory exchange between me and the crew leader and her counter staff about why $10.25 for a $2.25 bag of twister fries should give me $8 in change. i got that the guy behind the counter was new. i can only say that’s probably what inspired his last flippant comment that was quite incredulous.

the conversation was simple miscommunication at first when he doubled my order and charged me $4.50 for two bags. then i was given the wrong change by his crew leader, and when i asked why i only got back $7.25 instead (after a careful check of the menu), i was told, “oh the prices have gone up”. i remember thinking, “oh really? like in the last 5 minutes?”.

after class, i traveled all the way to NUS to check out The Deck, the new Arts canteen that has people raving (and less ranting). i navigated my way there based on remembrance back from my days there during the Advanced Placement Program stint in my J2 year. i got minutely lost initially because i didn’t know Clementi bus interchange moved. and i forgot i could take bus service 96 from a stop somewhere in Clementi Central. still, the trip there brought back memories, definitely. and when i got to NUS, it felt like some things didn’t change that drastically after all. i just hopped my way through all the Arts blocks and ended up where i wanted to. (:

bumped into Kexin there and we had a nice chat. i also caught up with Wei Ling over the phone while she was out shopping. they were good enough to help me out by answering some of my nosy questions which i badly need for one of my most pressing assignments this week. the deadline is so tight, i feel like my neck’s in the noose. plus, the percentage of grade it stands for scares the crap out of me, but there’s nothing i can do because i feel so lost when it comes to media writing, and i feel like i’m not cut out with the required edge to be a good journalist/churn out decent news stories. which dashes all confidence of me writing anything for the school paper, honestly. i know they say the skills are learnt and practice makes perfect. but somehow this particular challenge stumps me real bad.

i didn’t know Dils was still around or i would have loved to meet her while i was there. but we only got in touch when i was about to leave, so we could only chat a bit over the phone. so after that, i was lucky to hitch a ride with my cousin’s boyfriend who came by to pick her up from NUS. we got stuck in one bitch of a gridlock all the way until we got back home, and the trip took almost half as long as usual. we were all feeling distinctly dizzy and close to puking by the time we got out of the car.

today was also pretty surreal in the sense that i talked to a hell of a lot more people than i usually do in a single day. be it face-to-face, or through text/phone calls. and it threw my communication/speech functions into overdrive.

my classes today were pretty intensive in terms of content and work reminders. which reminds me i still have to email my Communication Research tutor my interview questions for approval by tonight. technically it was by 7pm, but i only managed to log online just now. panic!

still, Dad came home today! bringing back some new movie DVDs including Sweeney Todd, My Blueberry Nights (apparently Norah Jones can’t act?) and Juno. hopefully they come with decent subtitles. (:

i really want to watch Katherine Heigl in 27 Dresses because i need some romance and some comedy in my life desperately. talking to Madeleine past Monday when we were doing our shift for the survey administration student job, made me realize how many new movies i haven’t got to watch. zomg, my last movie i caught at the theaters was Enchanted. o_O … at least Aur and i made a pact to go watch the third Death Note movie, Change The WorLd; the long-awaited L spin-off prequel, together! it’s apparently hitting the local big screen 12 Feb. and USAToday lists 8 movies to watch out for this year.

the trailer for the local movie, The Leap Years, looks interesting. the opening music in the trailer reminds me amazingly strongly of Ryuichi Sakamoto’s ‘Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence’. and the subsequent melodies are really pretty, though they sound suspiciously like an amalgamated arrangement of familiar background songs. though i can’t really describe what happened visually because i am typing as i listen to the trailer, rather than watching it on television. it did made me realize that this year is a leap year, with a 29th of February.

Apple’s new iPod Nano in pink for Valentine’s Day amuses me.

omg, crackdown on Rapidshare by German court. looks like it might shut down soon. which reminds me that i should go grab the last episode of season four of Grey’s Anatomy before it’s too late or something.

Starbucks is closing down more stores in the USA? not that i care, since i’m not a coffee drinker nor am i in the USA. it’s funny, because today i was staring at the entire row of vending machines at the NUS Central Lending Library forum, and was actually toying with the idea of getting a coffee. how very very odd. if only i could decide which type/brand to get before i had to run. lol.

there are some interesting online start ups lately. like Control-C, Moli and Instapaper. … and this pulling of a segment about Heath Ledger’s (alleged or not) involvement with drugs after his death is quite an interesting take on media and selection of material.

i thought the boyfriend shirts fad would have died out by now. some of the shopping journals have updated again lately, like Indiesin. i like their newest collection, especially the tops. and Oh, Goodness Golly has pretty vintage bags! … and gloves are apparently popular in Japan right now.

got to hit the sheets soon. it’s past 1am, and i need to get up early to make it for my morning shift at Suntec City for my university’s student recruitment event for poly students. meeting Zijie to get there together. hopefully i’ll meet Nates and Bez when they drop by. reminder to self to bring direct credit authorization form! :3