1. Playing ball

2. Buying presents home

3. Eating nice food

4. Bears

5. The sound of music joke

6. Making people laugh :D

7. Playing in the snow. Taking photos in the snow. Building Mr Snowman. Throwing snowballs at the back of Nixon Court. Making snow angels.

8. Reading emails

9. My healthy eating sleeping living spending patterns. Which recently have not been working out so well..

10. Actually when you are generally happy and positive everything makes you happy right?

Dun make me tag 5 people again..

Yo...

Haha I am guesing the font is going to appear super large again even though I am innocently using the usual size I use, which is large.

Anyway anyway... The topic for today is... enlightenment. (I kinda haven't quite figured out how to put a title of my choice.. Ok, remove the 'kinda' and 'haven't'. Whatever.)

I realise I get enlightened by the strangest words. Here are the 3 that I remember:

1. When I was in primary school I was always grey. Meaning I just never stood out. Even if I got good results nobody would notice. :/ It never occurred to me that I was good at anything. As a result, I never tried to be good at anything (besides sports). Happens, doesn't it? Children don't get noticed > don't get praised > don't realise potential > don't try to aim for better coz they don't know they can or are supposed to (or is it just me..? hm.)

Anyway, one day I heard Mummy telling... Yi Ling (I think. Coz she is the only one who will be talked to about academic work/result/studying kinda things) that

"Science is just finding excuses."

and I thought, "I can make excuses. That's easy. I am THE BEST at making excuses." and so that triggered the drive for me to do well in Science coz I refused to accept that I was worse than other people in making excuses. Childish, I know, but it worked! Next Science exam tgo got highest in class. And the next. Bet nobody remembers. Hai~ Told you.

Anyway, my point is, that random sentence made me kai qiao. All the way until quite late in academic life that sentence somehow made me... kai qiao.

2. In JC everyone hated Gas Laws. Coz it was e-learning? Coz there are a lot of equations? Coz everyone else says it is hard?

Whatever it is, so did I. Until one day, I realised that Evon took Chem as well! Oddly enough, her teaching effectively consisted of one sentence,

"Haiya... Gas Laws you ONLY need to know PV=nRT lah.."

and I just, whoah.

3. Most people know about my ex-unhealthy sleeping pattern. Shan't reveal them. In any case, I am now a convert :D and am having a healthy sleeping pattern of 12 to 6 (a.m. for both, in case some people are thinking of suanning me. ha!) followed probably by an afternoon NAP. To the people who are raising their eyebrows: Ha! again! This sudden healthy change was brought about, again, by a random sentence, this time from t.B.o.

One night when I slept at... 12? I forced myself to wake up at 3 a.m. to do work, which, on hindsight, is ridiculous and irritatingly kiasu and obviously won't be effective studying, which, coincidentally, it wasn't. Basically, at that time my sleeping times were all over the place. As one of my groupmates described, 'basically messed up my whole sleeping pattern' (I know the sentence structure doesn't fit but it's a quote so...)

Like I said, the studying wasn't effective so I was online and met tbo there. She said,

"Wah, you like to wake up at 3 a.m. to study one ah?"

to which (to be honest) I had no answer. BUT that was yet another random sentence that (bet tbo will be so proud to see this) enlightened me! Now I am a healthy convert of the 12 to 6 sleep cycle! Congratulate me man :D

Ok, part of the conversation was what made me try out my new cool sleeping pattern. But it is weird how these random sentences made me 开窍 about so many things!

Still, I think I still have to attribute some of it to positive thinking. No point people telling me things if I hold a negative attitude.

Hm hm. Just finished baking egg tarts. Am eyeing the Qin Yi Pineapple Tarts next XD

Damn tired. I think the last part doesn't make sense or will not make sense if I carry on writing. Ok I KNOW I cannot study like this. Must. Sleep.

BUT before I go... For the sake of updating, I will be going to the hospital tomorrow to see if the consultant will allow me to watch the knee replacement surgery on Monday. If he lets (cross fingers man!) I WILL PON SCHOOL ON MONDAY. Wah lao, how many first year students get to watch this lah. OF COURSE I pon man. If I miss any teachings... well teachings occur like once, sometimes twice, everyday:/ A knee replacement surgery (which I might get to watch) occurs... well, has never occurred before.

Ok really really must sleep to maintain my healthy sleeping. Spring is here! But is bloody cold! But got pretty flowers! And weeds! And trees! But is still bloody cold! Ok. Stop it.