• pet goldfish
• ✔ lingerie
• ✔ ipod touch
• ✔ booksdepo books
• ✔ clothes
• ✔ shoes!!
• ✔ new contacts
• camera?
• materials for ship-in-bottle

• ✔ settle fun-o-rama materials by wednesday
• ✔ og outing?
• thrift shops!!/photo expedition
• ✔ extremely loud and incredibly close
• ✔ kill off all backlogs of the economist
• ✔ tutorial 26
• ✔ IH readings
• ✔ lit readings
• ✔ commonwealth essay draft 1
• ✔ pay library fines
• ✔ get earsticks
• ✔ sleep sleep sleep sleep

but would probably never be able to

• learn to skateboard
• skate backwards
• learn to ride a motorbike
• ✔ learn french

• entertainment provided by other colleagues on attachment, i.e
  • off-key singing
  • imitations
• a perpetually frowning simon seet
• comfortable silence with myself
  • which results in anti-socialness/isolationist policy at its maximum point, no kidding
  • which results in my supervisor telling me to "take it easy and be happy"
• endless waiting
• fatigue
• backaches
• way too cool temperate climate
• substandard coffee
• mr nice ngee ann engineering guy whose name idk(then again, i don't know many of their names)

• tearful - my bed/toilet in the kitchen
• pensive - on walks home from bus stops on late nights/rooms full of people
• lonely - train stations on saturday evenings(nights)/buses or trains packed with people
• peaceful - void decks/afternoons at my desk w the wind running through my window/where wind chimes ring
• empty - in buses, at night
• sad - anywhere, actually
• nervous - waiting rooms
• excited -
• uncomfortable - that staircase/that park
• comfortable - sitting beside people i like
• disturbed - arab st

tbc

• good conversations(htht!)
• wit
• puns
• feeling accomplished
• being peaceful
• highing w owlfriend
• phone calls w _
• encouragement
• having prayers answered
• good night's sleep
• spending time w people i like
• materialistic satisfaction(short-term)
• a good book and coffee
• being appreciated
• being remembered
• having self-worth/feeling significant
• when things go well
• when people around me are happy
• my best being enough
• hour-long car rides
• good music

• kings of convenience
• the beatles
• bon iver
• the cardigans
• sufjan stevens
• the weepies
• straylight run
• copeland
• amos the transparent(sometimes)

• ✔ wrap all books
• ✔ pack up room
• ✔ visit booksactually
• photo expedition
• pulau ubin cycling
• ✔ baking
• ✔ write to q
• ✔ ikea visit
• ✔ meet jesslyn
• paint
• covers
• shakespeare&co online
• ✔ part-time job
• finish reading
• ✔ bras basah
• dempsey
• ✔ sentosa
• chill day
• ✔ cafes exploration round 2
• thrift shops
• ✔ litteredwithbooks

• ✔ KOC 2010
• ✔ twba + mgmt 2011
• ✔ eric clapton 2011
• ✔ rachael yamagata 2012
• ✔ bombay bicycle club 2012
• ✔ dcfc 2012
• ✔ ingrid 2012
• ✔ yellowcard 2012
• ✔ regina spektor 2012
• ✔ laneway 2013
• ✔ stars 2013
• ✔ the script 2013
• ✔ tegan & sara 2013
• the xx 2013

i am thereby entitled to exploit this opportunity, considering that i actually managed to meet all 3 of mine last year!!

• learn how to use the chopsticks correctly
• no vices
• be a good student/person/friend/daughter/sister
• stop trying to be perfect

• annoyed
• sad
• disappointed
• disgusted
• loathsome
• skeptical
• cynical
• sleepy
• slightly angry
• disappointed

ok we have a winner here. disappointed wins. to hell with expectations. when will i ever learn

• tauhuay
• pasta
• pizza
• FROYO!!!!
• green tea ice cream
• ice blended mocha
• coffee
• hokkien mee
• ramen
• chicken rice
• sushi
• carrot cake
• sugar donuts
• tofu
• eggs
• choc chip cookies
• toast
• tom yam
• hershey's cookies & cream
• milk tea!!
• POKKA green tea

• make notebooks (hardcover w fabric etc)
• study/revise j1 stuff
• ✔ homework
• read
• ✔ beach
• cycle
• ✔ rollerblade
• ✔ eat @ food for thought
• ✔ have a 'museums day'
• ✔ have multiple birthdays
• ✔ catch up w wl & joanne
• ✔ catch up w jl
• punggol
• marina barrage
• ✔ photo expedition
• sentosa
• thrift shops
• ✔ shisha
• ✔ stargaze
• yummy noodles
• run

• ✔ at least a pair of shoes?!
• ✔ new schoolbag
• ✔ new pencilcase
• ✔ new wallet

i want to

• be unafraid to love
• be unafraid to trust
• like myself just enough

• living on froyo
  • or tauhuay
  • or coffee

during which further commencement of the above actions would result in malnutrition, which = (N)!!

when the monsters strike

• things about me that i'd like to change
• plans for next few days
• remembering what i've done for the past few days
• replaying memorable scenes from the day in my head
• remembering words said
• people

to be continued

• being disappointed
• being disappointing
• miscommunication/being misunderstood
• traveling home alone on late nights
• feeling alone
• being ignored
• feeling neglected
• feeling insignificant
• feeling worthless
• being struck by insomnia/drowning in my own thoughts
• feeling inadequate
• dead poets society
• bright star
• fantasies
• dreams
• nightmares
• thunder
• lightning
• emptiness
• hopelessness