I would walk
I would walk
I would walk
I would walk
Songs of the day:
Don't Leave Me Girl - Blackstreet
Return of the Mack - Mark Morisson
500 miles;1:00 am
lemme attempt to recall what happened over the past few days..hmm. tuesday was jam-packed with lectures. after that took a nice long walk with shan and shafa to the M&S at St Paul's Cathedral and then back to Bankside via the millenium bridge. had maggi mee for dinner! haha leeched it off huifang. I promise i will cook something nice for you next time! Tuesday was also the day of the Bhangra run! Consists of a procession walking through the campus dancing Bhangra at the same time.
wednesday was the first history class! Anyway the class discussion was dominated by an American, German and a Ukranian. They are quite pro. I must read more stuff so i not only offer points, but do it faster then them! Finally got my locker! On the 3rd floor of the Old Building. Tucked away in a corner where you have to squeeze into a small corner to open the door. Haha that's why no one in their right mind (except me) would want it! After that was netball tryouts but it rained, so we played in the rain. Played centre cos i thought it would be easier. Think the gamble payed off cos i made it into the 5th team. But they thought i was a basketball player though. Haha now i must sneakily try to convert back into a defender. anyway after that was Singsoc elections. Fortunately you only needed to vote once for each position unlike the Student Council elections that crazily stretch till midnight. Lingli was voted pres. Congrats Lingli! Haha didn't run for anything cos i thought i'd focus purely on sports and for once and stop and smell the flowers. The night was crazy. Stupid games, two bottles of baileys and vodka with sprite. Huifang had red patches all over her legs. Haha not very sexy ah? Fortunately I was still quite sober and could still send her back to her room (i think i did!) and come back and read my course texts. Anyway find it damn funny that fabian likes to use "Hip hop gansta shit" to refer to Hip hop music, among other things.
Thursday was spent in the library, reading. I took close to 3 hours just doing one reading! That shows how rustly my brain is. Anyway realised that bringing a laptop down will speed things up, although i will have to lug the whole thing down to the library. And, the LSE library can be used as a fitness centre, especially if you intend to go to and from the course collection via the gigantic spiral staircase. think of the new RJ library but 4 times wider and 5 storeys of it. After that went for netball. training was in Brixton, a rather dodgy part of London. Didn't think so until we witnessed a fight on a bus while waiting for a bus back to Bankside. The netballers are damn funny, they always have all these stories of the crazy things that happen to them when they're drunk. And for some wierd reason, training is on Thursday nights when AU night is on wednesday. So thursday is always spent getting over the hangovers and no one has much energy for training. haha. promised to meet two netball-banksiders for drinks after we got back to the hall. But when i went down, they were nowhere in sight! Either they didn't go down, or i can't recognize them! All the ang mohs look the same to me. Anyway ended up spending 2 pounds on a smirnoff. money is flying away.... }${
haha have discovered the wonders of i tunes! Can leech music off people in bankside with cool music while offering my paltry and sad music collection. haha so sneaky.
Song of the day:
Please Forgive Me - Bryan Adams
500 miles;11:04 pm
Its monday again! Ohno room cleaning is tomorrow so I have to pack my room to avoid the embarrasment of a messy room. lectures were okay, looked forward to the lecture at St Paul's Cathedral by Jeffery Sachs. The cathedral was beautiful but I wasn't very intellectually stimulated by the lecture at all. I'm going to believe Malcolm Gladwell and trust my gut feeling about Sachs. I shall not share my true thoughts on this blog so I won't be at risk of being sued by rich powerful people. Haha if you wanna know, ask me personally. (Sorry Gerald, if i'm pouring cold water on the takeaways of the lecture, you can call me a cynic i guess). The Student's Council has officially made me an apathetic cynic, much to the contrary of the original aims of the organisation. (but i have decided to still accord it some respect in my blog by giving it a captial S and C, only for old times' sake and nothing else)
Suddenly became very angry at night after I came back, cos I suddenly remembered what happened to my air ticket and the pains I have to go through to change the date back to what I originally wanted. Argh. Anyway, I realised my music collection has too many sad love songs or soft rock and lacks those really angry grundgy songs, the kind you blast over the speakers when you're really really mad. Hmm, I think I must have left the CDs in Singapore.
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Song of the day:
Me and You - Lifehouse
500 miles;11:03 pm
went jogging today! to chinatown for breakfast. Huifang's novel idea. Quite smart actually, cos the thought of dou jiang you tiao serves as adequate motivation to get up early in on a Sunday morning for a long run. Anyway, got there in about 25 minutes. Sadly, there was no you tiao in the morning. The you tiao is only available at 12pm. Anyway the boss of the place was this fierce lady who squawks in cantonese (though not as terrible as the ghim moh market johnson duck auntie). Settled for nai cha and buns instead. After that we took a little tour of the Chinese supermarket since all the shops had opened. Went back to the same restaurant again to ask if we could have porridge this time, but da-pao the you tiao from another shop. Sadly, the answer was no. After we left the waitress came running out of the restaurant to tell us (behind her boss' back of course!) that the you tiao at that restaurant was lousy anyway. How cute. That led me to the conclusion that the girl had a fancy for either Gerald or Adrian. Hahaha.
We ate at loong tao instead (adrian was very happy about that) and on the way back, passed covent garden market to see some performances. Some guy was trying to wrap himself in 18 metres of tesco clingwrap. And he would say "At the end of the performance, I am going to die!" and everyone would clap and cheer at that moment. Quite amusing. On the other end of covent garden market a busker was singing with guitar accompaniment. He was good, I shall come back another weekend to sit down and listen.
The rest of the day was spent studying... sad but true.
Have started the habit of tuning in to Power 98 over the internet, cos its one of the few with good reception and actually plays music I like. So i listen to night-time chill out songs in the day and perky, wake-up music late in the night cos of the time difference. Ha. Will get me a DAB radio when I get back to Singapore. The DAB radios here are fugly.
Nice and old songs rediscovered today:
High and Dry - Radiohead
Summer of 69 - Bryan Adams
From the Heart - Another Level
500 miles;11:13 pm
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