I went to sleep pretty late last night because Jia Ying, Ruici and I were having a mass conversation, though Ruici and I spent most of it discussing about playlists and what we should do on Friday. Jia Ying and I suggested scrabble because we had such an awesome game at Li Zhi's house back in June. With Ruici's large vocabulary bank, it's bound to get more exciting.

Was talking to Li Zhi over MSN too. He's been lamenting about his vegetarian host the past few days and how he desperately needs KFC. I told him that Rebecca and I were going to donate blood today and this conversation ensued:

YT: i'm donating blood tmrrrrrrr
LZ: DANG
LZ: why u always frigging go without me!
LZ: do it next week
LZ: i dont care
YT: can't
YT: i'm doing with a classmate
LZ: ask your classmate to screw off
YT: and next week's th camp shit LOL
YT: ):
LZ: i know you longer
LZ: hence
YT: she bought me a cup with a finnish flag
YT: my loyalty lays there.
LZ: i > classmate
LZ: LOL
YT: LOL
LZ: LOL

不愧是我的好朋友!

Anyhow, I'd met up with Rebecca at HSA today. It was kind of funny really. They took our temperatures and I was barred from getting in because mine was at 37.5. The lady who'd taken our temperatures told me to take a seat and take a rest before getting my temperature taken again. And so I did. When I went back. Lo and behold, my temperature was 37.7. Rebecca and I went to down a few cups of water before taking my temperature again.. Which wasn't exactly much of a difference but 37.4 was enough to get me inside. The medical screening and what-not went fine, until we headed off to the much dreaded blood test. I hate the prick of the needle on the finger and how they squeeze each droplet of your blood into this Yakult-straw-looking tube. I watched as my droplet of blood floated in the copper(II)sulphate-look-alike solution. Right at that moment, I felt that something wasn't right. Rebecca went after me and the lady told me that my iron level was too low, so I couldn't donate blood): She'd sent me back for medical screening and the doctor said something along the lines of "not eating enough meat" (which is kind of impossible because I'm nearly carnivorous). Jeez. Maybe it's because I've been missing dinners over the weekends.

Maybe I really do have to go next week to donate blood. Eesh. On a sidenote, I've earned myself 20 bright-red iron pills.

After Rebecca was done donating blood (and totally not looking at the needle attached to her arm), we went to Serene Centre for lunch. She was furiously copying from all the Biology and Chemistry lecture notes which she'd missed out upon her German trip while I attempted to complete the camera which I'd drawn on a postcard to USA. We shifted from McDonalds to Island Creamery where we bought a mini baked alaska and a mudpie. Awesomeness. I tried to finish some of the GP assignments while she attempted a few Math questions. It wasn't unproductive but we were a bit slow in our work. After all it's the holidays. It didn't help with the tall Christmas Trees decked in bright, flashing lights and decor and the pop/jazz covers of Chrismas carols playing in the background.

Oh well. I'm thinking of visiting 313@Somerset tomorrow. Had Jing Li not talked about it on Sunday, I would still think that it's still under construction. And come on, they have another HMV there! I'd better get started on the SIMUN resolution too.

Out of the blue, here's a playlist that I've come up with out of randomness:

I'll sum the past two days up with these:
If a picture truly speaks a thousand words, I would have already written an essay in this post.

And perhaps by a rare stroke of luck, I would be getting out of Singapore for a while over the holidays(: I'm looking at my dad's Absolut Vodka collection. There's a new addition to it and it seems like we have run out of space to place this new rebel.
On a random sidenote, I wish I had a Canon compact camera.

I get extremely irritable when I get rudely awakened from my sleep. My mom came into the room screaming, "GET OUT, GET OUT OF THE ROOM NOW" because some air-conditioning repairmen were here and needed to check on the air-conditioners. AT LIKE. NINE IN THE MORNING.

Emotions all tied up in an uncomfortable knot, pent-up angst waiting to burst forth and attack innocent victims. Diplomacy and societal norms often put people in a state of contradiction with what they're really thinking of doing.

The last day of school felt nothing like the last day of school. It didn't feel as liberating as it should be. Anyhow, I went off to meet Deborah at Orchard after the Biology lecture to buy tickets for Big Night Out 2010. So other than Muse, Saosin and Rise Against are playing too. I was quite into Saosin's stuff a few years back but they're pretty good nonetheless and am pretty much neutral towards Rise Against.

We'd spent pretty much of the afternoon catching up. The last time we'd met was.. for Nine Inch Nails' concert in August I think. Gosh. Many things can happen in a short period of time. We actually went back to SC after lunch in attempt to rescue Jorge from the art room. Unfortunately, the art teacher wasn't in school so we could only peep through the door to see Jorge stuck at the back of the art room, rotting away in the heat in a leather jacket.

I went over to Debo's house after that and went straight to the room with the drums and the keyboards. With Debo on the drums and me at the keyboards, we improvised Daniel, Undisclosed Desires, Map of the Problematique and some other stuff. I did try out the drums after having not played in.. forever. I can't say that I'm rusty at drumming because I've not drummed enough to say that I'm well-oiled enough. Old rhythms and simple stuff. Tried out a page of rhythms for snares and spent half the time trying to figure out the note-values. Another example of failed sight-reading.

I'd scooted over back to my comfort zone at the keyboards and played with its preset functions, such as the instrument. There were altogether more than 200 different sounds but I managed to get through 100+. It was so hilarious. With every new "instrument", I tried to play something appropriate for the sound. I'd call it creating atmosphere, more like. It's as if the feel of the room changes as with sound. Eerie cinematic soundscapes, long-forgotten rock riffs, analogue passages and experimental techno/industrial. Gosh, I have not had so much fun in a long time.

The start of the holidays indeed. I need to start living a life worthy of my restlessness.