omg check this out!

super fantastic gym clothes - adidas and stella mccartney, they showed in europe in late april but i'm a little slow and JUST found the press release. anyway it only releases in stores mid-august which is now! the odasha running shoe looks very cute! and the fleece jackets, so gorgeousss maybe i can convince my mom that if i end up in a coldish region for university and i want to go running somewhere other than a gym i'll need fleecey things to run in hmm. they also have very nice jackets and parkas which would work even when you're not actually doing sports. if i were less lazy i would print screen etc, save the pictures and post them here but i'm very lazy and i have a gp essay to finish. i hopehopehope this line's available in singapore, would be fab as i'm on the lookout for a new pair of running shoes and the odasha would be ideal =]

ohh speaking of running, the last time i went to the gym, which was sunday, i manufactured myself a fantastic flu. ok well i was stupid because i already had a little bit of a sniffle and was sneezing off and on but i'm really really weird and i sort of -like- sneezing because it gives me a high (yeah i know i sound like a freak but there you go). so i thought nothing of it and hit the gym and had a really fantastic workout.

only, two hours later my throat's starting to hurt and sneezes actually start to bug me. and the next morning my throat's in full agony. and that's just the beginning of the flu. by about 10 am i fell deeply asleep on the classroom table instead of doing the gp essay that i intended to do before the US universities talk - and that may seem fairly normal but the truth is that i haven't really fallen asleep in school for a while, particularly not as deeply asleep as i was on monday: i could barely keep my eyes open when kelly woke me and tried to tell me something she was reading in Newsweek about... nazis, i think it was. usually she thinks nothing of waking me because my school naps are hardly serious ones, but i think she herself realised that i was really quite dead to the world. and it was quite funny because finally i got woken by a call from mrs perry and i was really groggy but you can't really mumble while on the phone with a teacher so i had to wake myself up. despite that my voice must've sounded pretty bad because it was already on its way to Ultimate Hoarseness.

and then while studying at Toast soph and i were sitting across from each other sniffing away like... really sick people. kel was the healthy one, the odd one out. oh Toast is also a great bag-watching place. a very pretty copper balenciaga motorcycle, a screaming red luella giselle which was cute but a bit on the big side, an ugly tan birkin, a navy blue louis vuitton epi mabillon backpacky thing. and a pair of chanel ballet flats. yeah, my eyes were still wide open while my nose was blocked and killing me. i don't quite enjoy the automatic bag-spotting that my brain does. but that doesn't mean i'll give up reading fashion mags and websites. that part's fun.

my mother's convinced that sitting in Toast for 4 hours was what did me in, because monday night i had a bit of a fever and went to bed with RJ sweatshirt on, plus a fleece blanket plus the duvet. ok well i refused to sleep without aircon and i normally have the fleece and the duvet anyway because my aircon's wonderfully cold, and i like it that way. so the sweatshirt was the only addition. fever was gone by tuesday morning but i could barely talk, extremely phlegmmy throat, cough, headache etc. even the last time i had a fever back in februaryish and that was a much higher fever although it also lasted only one night, i didn't feel so ill! but it was really two days before dramafest which was really annoying, and it resulted in a lost voice for almost a week. but anyway this bout of flu is the most irritating in recent history.

it's still not fully gone away - this morning i was woken by a phone call and it was Ultimate Hoarseness: I croaked. but it's getting better, very slowly. my maid keeps trying to feed me warm water but i really hate the taste of warm water. so i'm just downing a lot of Redoxon.

and i'm skipping school tomorrow, yay! i'm still up now trying to finish that damn gp essay and get it printed by someone who'll hand it in on my behalf tomorrow.

so uh yeah i just came online to post about the exciting adidas+stellamccartney thing. i digressed a lot as usual.

so next time i go running i must make sure i don't have a sniffle or anything.

also, i can't post on my tagboard! or any tagboard for that matter. i don't know why. help! but right now i can't remember what i wanted to post besides that i mostly agreed with daph's reaction to charlie and the chocolate factory, which i wanted to post on -her- tagboard but i hope she reads it here! well actually the tag i wanted to post had a more detailed response to her post, but i can't remember. i think it was stuff like needing to rewatch movie (though i said in my earlier post that i didn't think it was worth watching twice, but it's depp and burton so i might have to give it a second chance when i get a bit of time, plus some stuff i read has led me to believe it might be the second-time-lucky type of movie). and that maybe if they hadn't made it so hallmark-cheesy i might've enjoyed it more because the first half like daph said was really good, and the oompa loompas (well, actually one oompa loompa multiplied a few million times which is scary/cool) were actually quite amazing in a heady, crazy way, and the sets were technicolour fabulous. maybe it was the focus on Family instead of Chocolate, and the writers-on-crack take on the original. but, thinking about it, the melting plastic dolls part was one of the best in the movie. in terms of style and all that. so i think i would've liked the movie a whole lot more if a) the family love-love cheese was sort of not there and b) i'd been less sleepy when i watched it.

OH i just remembered daph said something about suspending her disbelief for johnny depp any day. and i wanted to say ditto. which is why i will rewatch the movie at some point. which won't be in the near future considering i don't have the time now to even watch Bewitched (and movies i haven't seen yet are usually given higher priority than slightly-disappointing movies that i've watched already.)

well ok that's far more than i intended to post on her tagboard.