oooook i'm so bored i'm going to blog.
weird - about two months ago, say during the exams, i'd blog at every opportunity. i'm glad to say it has become a last resort. this is the NEW me.
hopefully the blog-freeness sticks. nowadays when i go online i can't find enough to do. the things india does to you...

hm. and i can't even think of anything to blog about! possibly because i have done nothing the past few days. i went to school a bunch of times for some moving ceremony nonsense basically carrying a flagpole around and learning how to walk around the netball court and hall in the proper fashion. any councillors who read this will excuse me please, when i say that with a few exceptions, councillors are NUTS. they never seem to get tired or lose interest in crazy things like flagpole ceremonies or anything! wow. actually i don't quite admire it.. i'm just. awed?

and then i spent some alone time walking around borders and soaking up the bordersness. i loooooovvveeee borders. it's so happy! and TEMPTING. i almost spent about 70 bucks on various things, but i took out the book the calendar the notebook and the cd and it was down to one photo album for 24 bucks, yay. i've developed an amazing (for me atleast, for some people it'd be normal) amount of self-reserve. is that the word? self control. self discipline. anyway the photo album's very nice imo. and i've put it to good use - i spent all of yesterday making a photo album of my life. i found another nice album at home and filled it with pictures from when i was a baby until i was 12 and then the new album with important pictures from 12 onwards such as performances, china, new york, vegas, england, birthdays, friends. nice things. secondary school and jc. and i only have like 50 places left despite having more pictures to put in! how easily albums get filled up. but i think it's a nice thing to keep, and this way if my house is ever on fire i'll know what to grab first. because otherwise we have this cupboard full of photos, and the only ones that seem to be in order are US 2001 and china 2002. actually there are two albums with the same US photos. one day when i'm feeling charitable i might decide to organise the rest of the family photos. and one thing about digital cameras: they make you super lazy. i have millions of photos still on my computer, waiting to be printed. before going to india i printed a bunch, but that was just like newzealand, england, lysis, my birthday this year, navratri, halloween. i think after printing the china photos in 2002, we never printed anything until now. except my mom printed her US/mexico photos from april this year, but i think that was in the hotel in sanfran or cancun or wherever itself because hp set up hp photo printers for the guests to use for free so my mum being my mum made full use of the free printing facility.

what else. i've been reading the picture of dorian gray. or rereading, i suppose, since i read it many years ago but it hardly counts because i don't think i even understood it then and i certainly don't remember anything i read. it's strange, because when we did to kill a mockingbird in sec 2, i had read it before but then i reread it for the class and realised i'd forgotten most of it. my memory's really screwed up that way. i remember the craziest things and forget the craziest things.

random thought: i want a holiday. like a proper holiday, in some place i haven't been before. with lots of snow. i half-feel jealous of my brother and parents for having been to newzealand in june when it was freezing and snowing and therefore ultra-fun for anybody who's as annoyed with singapore weather as i am. but then i wouldn't replace the england trip for anything. my family's crazy, it seems, we always go to countries with temperate climates in winter. and i've never seen a proper fall. except when i was 4 or 5 or something but all i remember is walking down a typical san francisco hilly street, and the golden gate bridge being covered with fog or mist or something, and sitting inside a gigantic redwood tree trunk. actually i think the redwood memory is only because yesterday i found a picture of myself sitting inside the trunk. but i think i remember the redwood forest, although i could just as easily have seen that in a picture recently or something. all i know is that we did go to some redwoody place, and i was fascinated by the trees and it was really.. red. i suppose that's a good fall memory. memory is a weird thing.

i want to jump in a pile of red dead leaves. i want a temperate climate, dammit. singapore gets so BORING after a while. hm. i'm not sure if i'm looking forward to school starting or not. the new campus is exhaustingly large. and the whole rumour or whatever about humanz getting aircon classrooms because the teachers demanded it, is... amusing, to say the least. i can't say i'm not glad if it is true, but it will definitely be fodder for some more humanz-hatred. ah well, as i told kelly, who cares? we'll just barricade ourselves in our aircon rooms and mock them. no that's just mean, and there are non-humans people possibly reading this so pretend i didn't say anything. but aircon would be real nice, because the building is pretty damn hot inside when it's not windy. and i have a new levi's pullover i bought especially to go with the uniform, and it would be wasted if there's no aircon to make it useful. the things we do.

i shall go now and hope that i can find something constructive to do with myself. i guess i can blog if i want, but of course it's been the most inane post ever. gahh. gimme christmas presents!

merry christmas, by the way.