yesterday was a pretty good day. it started off bad with a phone call from chit at 7am, about the front page of the newspaper: an article about downloading being now illegal under singapore law, and therefore a huge blow to all my favourite american tv obsessions. so i was pretty depressed for a while, but the day got better and i figured maybe a download-ban would be good for me, so i got over it. well, sort of. last night i suddenly felt very sad when i thought about the sudden pangs of yearning that i have for alias between seasons, and how i was going to stand that for 4 shows for a whole 2 year span. but this morning's paper offers hope, because it seems to be ok as long as you don't download on a scale that causes huge financial loss to a copyright owner - that's what they meant by commercial scale. generally, in these things, news that comes along is pretty much good news because it's technology. pirates will find a way around it, and i'm not really a pirate anyway since i don't think the amount of downloading i do causes much financial loss; it's tv anyway. the only thing, i suppose, is that when the shows syndicates and comes along to channel 5 i don't really end up watching it. i will ponder more upon that. but basically there is hope. maybe i'll stop watching Lost before i get too emotionally invested in it, and just wait for it to come to singapore, which it should soon considering the success of alias and the fact that Lost is such a great show. the critics are loving it, yay.

anyway, back to yesterday: as usual, useless in terms of lessons. morning was the s paper talk, mr chin was rather nice when vaish and i spoke to him afterwards, and there might be hope for econs next year. teacher-meeting thing: hopefully purvis and batchelor can temper the inevitably horrible feedback of mrs seah and ms salina. ah well. and then there's the humanz booth. and pw. not too bad overall. history lecture: i'm hoping against hope that i do ok for my essays.

then skipped math lec, hung around the canteen and then the geog room. went and borrowed casablanca and jerry maguire. i've only watched a little bit of casablanca a long time ago when my mom was watching it on tape. i was really small. and jerry maguire i keep meaning to watch, and everytime it comes on tv i miss most of it. although i know it's not a very good movie, it's renee zellweger, so i'll watch that. then there didn't seem to be econs, so went to ruth's house to watch dirty dancing. i love that movie. makes me happy. i can watch it forever. especially the dance at the end, completely wonderful.

then we were walking back to go for math, although i really didn't feel like going back for math. and who do we encounter on the way but the rest of the class! and they just ponned math. so we're like "wow, you just left?" and kelly says, in this straightfaced semi-indignant hilarious way, "well we left a note!" and vaish and i almost fell off the pavement laughing. our class seriously rocks. as i told mike, which other class in the world just leaves a note for a teacher and coolly walks out of school after the other half has already ponned half the classes to go watch a movie that's as old as we are? kelly was in top form, humour-wise. vaish smsed herself a whole bunch of hilarious things that were said, which i will post as soon as vaish refreshes my memory. i do remember tsz san wondering about rgs girls having a sex blog and kelly, once again with that hilarious straight face, said "it's not supposed to be official.."

anyway, some of us went to jelita where i spent 16.50 on vanity fair (the magazine, not the movie or the book because i have the book and have to see the movie soon) because it had johnny depp on the cover and had actually just arrived from overseas in a package, and i got the guy to open it so i could look and my jaw dropped at the price but i'd made the guy open it so i felt bad and bought it. then pizza hut, where we sat for more than 2 hours and laughed our stomachs sore, talking about everything from moving clams that weren't clams, to weird chinese cuisine to sex and well basically everything. oh they ordered some really smelly pizza, and there were pieces of things that were moving cos they were really thin and moved in the wind, and kelly (again, with a straight face) told me that they were live clams, and i obviously jumped and everyone laughed at me because i didn't have the presence of mind to remember that clams are like shells. i was an infinite source of trivia, informing them about november sweeps in the american tv season, and the fact that peope who're allergic to shellfish are also allergic to cockroaches. it's good to know these things.
anyway, it was a good time.

after that went to whsmith, they have a rather cool illustrated da vinci code. it's disgusting how commercial that book's become, it's like a franchise or a brand all by itself. although it definitely is very interesting. i wanted to buy the diary that will change your life thing, but i resisted. it was 41 bucks, although highly entertaining. i think i might buy it at the end of the week.

gah ok i started this post at 10 in the morning and now it's 4 in the afternoon, cos in between viv came to do pw and choon came and i just saved as draft, and i have another o to keep my math o company. econs. i can't believe i did so badly - i thought my stuff was not too bad. i actually studied for econs. i hope i can wrangle another mark tomorrow and get it up to e. another o is just awful. and i hope my hist and lit don't screw up. this is fucking horrible. anyway i don't feel like blogging anymore. i'm going to go do pw or math or something.