yay i figured out why shutterfly and my computer were having a problem - ever since i updated my norton internet security the pop-up slideshow window was refusing to appear, so i figured out how to turn off the popup blocker yay!!! so kitson if you're reading this please give me the link to your photos again cos i wanna seeee.

anyway so i was looking at pictures of my friend from england recently, and i felt so NOSTALGIC for june! mannn and my pictures have st james park in full green summer splendour, and her pictures are all dead-leaved and grey-skied, and the carousel at covent garden's still there (ok of course i didn't expect them to just put a carousel there for a couple of days and take it away, but you know...) so basically i have been struck with wanderlust again. every once in a while i get depressed about being stuck in singapore for basically the next... year. my mom's probably going to go around with my dad again a few times next year, and i think next year there might be a thing in portugal!!! like there was in mexico this year. daymmmn. and i'll be supposedly mugging my ass off. atleast there's the prospect of my favourite cousins visiting. the ones who are the offspring of my favourite un-dvd-sending uncle. i shall not harbour any hopes that he might bring dvds when he comes, for fear they might be crushed yet again. but still he's my favourite uncle and i loooooveee my cousins to pieces. they're the most adorable kids in the universe. although the older one is like ten now and in a sort of grunge phase - all baggy tshirts and jeans. but the younger one is so precocious and her accent makes her sound so cute! haha i could go on forever. i just hope they come in feb. i'll be nice, right between my sat2s and march common tests. hurhurhur.

sooo this afternoon i went washbasin-shopping with the parents. my mom's refurbishing my bathroom and hers. well, just the washbasins and vanities i think. i doubt she's retiling cos that's a pain in the ass and the tiles are fine anyway. so i'm (hopefully) getting a really cool thing which is like this wooden trellis with glass on top and the bowl is literally like a bowl on top. big and glass. we didn't order it there, cos my mom didn't find a suitable thing for her. but they dropped me home and went to some other place which has the same line of washbasins we saw at the first place and more, and i think they're ordering me that one and have found something for their room as well. except my mom just called to say that the bowl is a bit shaky and it will be shaky no matter how tight they fix it. but it -is- attached to the base so i don't figure on having a washbasin disaster like the mirror disaster last time. oh and i'm finally getting a new mirror. my parents are so inefficient with these things. but i'm going to make sure i get a huge mirror now.

i've been spending inordinate amounts of time with my family and actually enjoying it. last week i went to pizza hut with them and had quite a good time, and a day later to borders and nydc and also had a good time. and yesterday when they picked me up a tad early from kitson's i didn't really feel terribly unhappy about it. i think when you're younger you're always trying to run away from home and parents and annoying siblings and stuff, but you grow to appreciate them a lot. my mom and i have actually begun to understand each other a bit. i mean, besides our common love for shopping which i totally appreciate and that sometimes i don't know what i'd do without her to shop with. hm.

and i've begun to enjoy talking to my brother. we spent innumberable nights in bangalore talking and laughing our heads off. and it was much fun sharing the bangalore gossip, because he's also friends with Freaky Bangalore Guy and we'd share details of all the weirdass entanglements there, romantic or otherwise. and my brother actually helped me spot cute guys. like the saudi arabian guy ajoy - my brother knew i thought he was cute, and would tell me whenever he saw him out cos he also knew i was peeved that i didn't talk to him even once this time. he even came to call me when he saw ajoy, but figured quite smartly that it would be damndamndamn weird to go "hey wait a sec, let me go get my sister". and he told me that ajoy talks like saif ali khan! i have a weird deja vu feeling like i've said all this before. maybe i told someone on the phone. sometimes i feel like i'm losing my mind.

and i've begun to enjoy doing math! this is the best one. i mean, sort of enjoying. i guess i always enjoyed the satisfaction of solving a math problem successfully. and that satisfaction has come a little more often lately, so math has become more enjoyable. i've finished my math homework!!! i'm so fucking proud of myself. every single question - done.

so kitson's last night was really fun. it was fab catching up with the class. besides the requisite absentees, it was a good turnout. soph and kelly and vaish up to their usual pervy antics. and it seems that every time i'm at kitson's, soph wants to look at my bra. (ok maybe a blog isn't the best place to reveal such things, but she was looking down my shirt which is shameless enough anyway. hahaha but i truly love the christmas present. especially the box: its soooo pretty, it will be a fantastic addition to my Box Collection.)
shoojee and vaish and me in a corner looking at kiddy pictures, immersed in the music, acting drunk as usual although there was only beer to drink and i hatehatehate beer. going up to kitson's house again and subtly asking if there were any drinks still left there, in an attempt to wrangle some wine. failing badly because all the drinks had gone down already and wine wasn't among them. bringing popiah(sp?) down instead. the turkey - which is a dead BIRD, for all you cruel nonvegetarians out there. vaish, who doesn't even eat egg, thinking it actually looked good. kitson menacing the two of us with a turkey limb, waving it in my face causing me to scream at an embarrassingly loud volume. screaming at an embarrassingly loud volume outside at the pool when shoojee took a fancy to kicking water at me all of a sudden, thus causing me to be almost entirely drenched. and then he himself being a spoilsport and rushing off to change into a dry shirt before we could get a photo of him/me/vaish looking like drowned rats. getting "those people" to take a class photo. choon eeking grace out with her flirtatious stomach-hugging ways. Claudia's Sordid Love Story. shocking secrets on the way to the toilet. oh and the best part: kitson's beatles-era hair. i LOVE it! it was the first photo of the day. on my camera, anyway. so i have a nice new haul of photos.

i should go print some photos soon.