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The Music I Hear

Awoke to drills and unstoppable fire alarms, or whatever alarms you call it, Sunday rolls in gracefully, with the birds twittering and the monkeys in the TV room chattering. Ugh...

I woke up at 8, and simply rolled away into thoughts for about an hour before actually really getting up. Then I met my knight in shining armor, Pappu, whom I went to the cafeteria with for brunch. Met the sexy force on his way back from the cafeteria, and he said there's a baby snake there by the gutter. Paps and I, and Dael and Vivian went to where Lem was pointing, but nobody saw a thing. I think because when Lem pointed to where the snake was, all of us were busy talking to each other and at the same time acknowledging his presence but not exactly paying much attention to him. So much for being sexy.

Well if its not me again and my suggestive template-d blog. Here goes another day, another day of daydreaming and drooling. I will have to try my best to study, study and study. I still have two more classes to study for, actually three: News writing, Literary Analysis and Criticism and Cross cultural communication.

There'll be another music recital tonight, by Dinah Wee, featuring me the wannabe accompanist (someone's cooking in the kitchen right next to my room right now... and it smells damn nice) so till then, I really REALLY really hope that there will be some studying that actually took place. Will include pictures of the recital...

Very happy with Advanced Grammar. I don't have to take grammar deductively anymore!!! Everything else will be inductive... unless I write a book on Grammar when I am old and insane.

To close, I shall include a photo...

hehehehehehe...
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Kim said…
hmm! you should try download the program Comic Life (http://plasq.com/comiclife/), for adding speech bubbles and stuff. it's 12 mb. I'll split it up into smaller sizes for you if internet at mc is too slow for 12mb download. it's a really cool program!!
12:36 PM
daronloo said…
thank you!!! :D
10:29 PM
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