Gratisfaction

You get tired when the days are too long

You get lonely when the days are gone

I really love Julian Casablancas because of how unpretentious and careless he seems. He makes for a very charming frontman when he is drunk but somehow manages to look like a sorry man and not a rebellious youth, and when he is sober and dressed in leather but yet projects wisdom and emotional sensitivity, and doesn't look like a douche or a wannabe new-to-the-scene indie pop kid.

Maybe it's the big, sad brown eyes or the generally hungover look he adorns. Either way, it's working for me.

The modern age

andddd in a flash, the semester is over.

last day of school yesterday and it was kind of a wake-up call, realizing how fast time flies by and that after a short two weeks, i will no longer be a year 2. Saw some posts from year 4s about how depressed they felt to be leaving NUS, and was like :(( i don't wannaaaa.

but anyways, it has been a generally okay semester. not my favourite in NUS for sure. i regret staying in hostel cos i never spent much time there, but it's been a nice time listening to the strokes the whole sem, buying overpriced coffee and hanging out with my best friend more than we did last sem (hi wums)

didn't get to gig much this sem- only gig was cactus, but it's kay, hopefully there will be more next sem. (LOL just remembered i blogged before about having a one-gig-per-sem quota, and it really happened)

thanks for reading my short and pointless blog post.

and now i will rewrite it in german, cos i feel a lil sad now that german 4 is over (decided against taking german 5 cos it's 5 mcs and the workload is no fun) and idw to forget how to speak and write german entirely.

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und jetzt ist das semester vorbei.

gestern war es der letzte schultag, und ich habe gefunden, wie schnell die zeit geht. nach zwei wochen werde ich nicht mehr eine studentin im zweiten jahr sein. ich habe gesehen, einige kommentare von den studenten, die in ihrem letzten semester sind. sie haben beschrieben, wie traurig sie fühlen, nus zu belassen.

aber trotzdem war das semester insgesamt ok, obwohl das nicht mein lieblingssemester war. ich habe gewünscht, dass ich nicht im studentenwohnheim gelebt habe, denn ich habe nicht viel zeit da verbracht. aber während das semester hatte ich eine schöne zeit, die musik der strokes zuhören, kaffee kaufen, die zu teuer war, und mich mit meinem besten freundin treffen.

ich habe in diesem semester nur eine gig gespielt, und die war cactus. aber es geht, und hoffentlich gibt es mehr in dem nächsten semester.

naja, ich würde mehr schreiben, aber jetzt muss ich für meine prüfungen lernen.

herzlichen dank für eure aufmerksamkeit. bis dann, und viel glück für eure prüfungen!

A spaceman came travelling

kinda realized that for some weird reason, i have a hard time remembering what 'infinity' means. i keep seeing the words 'infinite' and 'finite' in my lecture notes and i have to think for a bit to remember which is which.

but i've figured a way. now whenever i see a question that starts with 'imagine an economy with an infinite number of time periods...' i just picture buzz lightyear declaring, "to infinity... and beyond!" (blog post title is a song and has no link to this)

and i'll be like ah ok infinite means neverending, got it.

speaking of which, time has been kind to me this sem and for some reason i feel like i've been quite free this sem? i guess excluding german which i intended to s/u right from the start, my mods this sem are all relatively light.

it is the start of week 13 tomorrow, the last week of school, and instead of being swamped with deadlines, i am here blogging after a nice spaghetti dinner with the fam and after re-watching the movie 'the proposal.' (oh my, ryan reynolds)

another 23 days to my last paper and the end of this sem, which has been quite an eventful one. i am still amazed at how fast time flies. back in secondary school and jc, the days always seemed to crawl by. maybe cos we were forced to start school so early every day? idk.

excluding my sem on exchange, i only have three semesters left in nus omg. whyyyy

kinda feels like one sem in nus goes like this:

week 1: a celebration
week 2: still a celebration
week 3: i love school
week 4: my mods look fun
week 5: oh wow that was fast
week 6: omg recess week is next week?
week 7: my mods are not fun
week 8: ugh
week 9: omg my midterm results...
week 10: i am so tired
week 11: oh yay more assignments
week 12: i think i am finally settling into the new semester
week 13: wait what
no