offloading mental impairments

It's been a good while. Once again, the assignments have come and gone

*sits back, relax* (right, add that sigh of relief right there~~~)

If anything was a really bad weekend, it was last weekend. The one that just passed 4 days ago. Check this: database assignment on friday, programming assignment on sunday, netdatacomms assignment on monday.

At the same time, my brit cousins Livi, Josh and El came by for about 10 days(?) from Monday (my bro's birthday) to the following Wednesday (2 days before I handed in my database assignment), which would probably explain most of the absenteeism during those 2 weeks. X3 having cousins whom you've never seen in the flesh for the first time warrants alot of lax ruling. XDXDXDXD

During the last week(end, to be specific) I've been pretty depressed over the sudden mountainload of work I've had to finish within an impossible 3 days, like trying to avoid 3 silver bullets one after the other in a row. Every morning, the dread spread over me like the plague; I would have nothing else on my mind, despite being happy that I've gotten a chance to hang out and have fun with them, it will stick to the back of my mind. Every day, I try to allocate some emergency time in my mind to try and scrape up bits and pieces of my assignments and polish 'em up abit more. Brainwork under extreme stress is not something I enjoy.

In addition to the assignments I got into a spot of trouble with Jinny since I was supposed to finish up 4 layouts which were handed out on Tuesday and due Friday, but ended up only doing 2 (well 1 actually, even that was with ai-chan's help - she did the other one, I'm eternally grateful for this) ane even then I handed it in a day late. Teetering on the brink of desperation (not suicide, don't worry, I'm far too much of a coward for that) I considered spending some quality time with my loveable piece of junk computer (hey, tell me which part of a 128MB RAM while running at least 6 RAM-consuming programs @ the same time isn't sad) for a few full days in a row, but that was in vain. Always at about 1am either parent would come up and say, "Go to sleep now!" and that was the end of it.

6 RAM-consuming programs?
-Adobe Photoshop CS2
-Apple iTunes
-Windows Live Messenger
-Firefox will crash on me for no apparent reason, mostly due to lack of virtual memory.
-even the goddamn Microsoft Word didn't spare me any mercy.

okay, so I lied. 5, not 6.

Their trip to KL was enjoyable for the sole fact that their accent was pretty much strong it was a challenge alone to comprehend it. Once we got over that, though, it was pretty much easy. Josh had some pretty interesting things to say, which was pretty, no very amusing from a Malaysian point of view.

"Is it normal to have curry in the morning where you live? Cause granny will wake us up to eat some kind of dish with curry on it and I'll go 'eghhhh.....no way I'm eating that...' "

guess the dish, why don't you? =D

me: "So what time did you guys wake up today?"
josh: "God, early alright. There was this dude singing at about 5am and he wouldn't shut up!"
el: "He must've gone on for about 2 hours and by the time he's done we couldn't get back to sleep..."

Not to mention that guama's apartment being pretty near the mosque didn't help things along much.

At first they were pretty much reserved, talking to themselves, not really adventurous about the food (*the horror!*) except for maybe Livi, she just popped everything into her mouth. And it's so damn fun watching her use a chopstick, she's utterly hopeless at it! hahaha I know I'm cruel, but it's true! The most significant part of their trip has to be the food, I bet this trip exposed them to more food than the types of weather they can get back @ home.

If anything, Livi is very pretty. I mean really pretty, even @ this accesory shop you get the female shop assistants going "She's really pretty, really really pretty.." which not only freaks me out, freaks her out! But she takes it in good humor, I suppose she's used to it or something. Heads turn, wolf-whistling aplenty and lewd comments that irk me are made when we (Livi and I) walk along. So blardy irritating, especially the last 2. The first one isn't that bad, at least they have good taste. =D If you're a lesser being (in looks) you'd feel pretty small walking next to her. Like me. But I've learnt not to care, there are other things more worth my time.