not so merry

Merry Christmas all!

it's been quite a while since i last posted. but i've been really busy. and believe me, i tried posting the day before yesterday but when i was halfway through, the electricity went out! when the electricity was back, i didn't feel like writing the whole thing again.

anyway, it's been a busy busy week. i'm so fed up with college applications that i don't care if i don't get into any college anymore!! ok just kidding. but it really did get me frustrated. mailing the apps was just as frustrating as filling the applications themselves. i mailed 9 applications last week. one was mailed using 'express mail service' so it didn't take long but sticking 19 stamps each on the rest of the envelopes while standing stooping over a low table wasn't exactly comfortable!

i don't want to sound all whiny but i still have two essays to write by new year's day!!

aaahhh.. help me santa!

deferred

Dear braindead,

After careful consideration of your application to the University of Pennsylvania for the Class of 2010, the Admissions Selection Committee has decided to defer the final decision until the Regular Decision notification date in April. I realize that you must be disappointed by this delay, but I want to assure you that this should not be interpreted as a denial.

The Admissions Committee recommends this action when we wish more time and additional information before we begin the re-evaluation of your application. Because we want to give your candidacy the fullest consideration, I ask that you send us a mid-year report of your first semester grades and any additional College Board or ACT test scores that you will have taken through January 2006.

If you have any questions, or if this office can be of any assistance to you during the coming months, please do not hesitate to call upon us.

Sincerely,

Willis J. Stetson, Jr.
Dean of Admissions

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well, not too pleased, obviously! :( but i guess this is better than a flat out rejection!

now on to regular applications.... ahhh.... just thinking about the number of apps i need to do now, depresses me even more! :(

waiting.... it's excruciating

7 hours till i get my Penn ED decision!!!

i'm soooo nervous... freaked out... anxious.... everything!

ahhhhhh... i'm hoping for a miracle here. i applied to Penn as a big reach and i know it shouldn't be surprising if i'm rejected/deferred, still... i'll be really dejected if i don't get in. i've prepared myself for a rejection letter, but i would be in denial if i said it wouldn't bother me!

i need a miracle.... i'm making belated wishes to those shooting stars i mentioned in my previous post!

but i've to be realistic! why didn't i start on my RD applications earlier? :(

make a wish

has been a pretty interesting week... after an interesting weekend!

last saturday i attended a first cousin's wedding. was a lot of fun. the main proceedings were over by midnight but some of us decided to stretch the fun till morning. so we (i helped by stayin out of the way) built a fire first since the night was really cold and huddled around it with lots of food and beer to keep us awake! time flew by until it was 3 in the morning and the beer was finished! [my bro only let me down a mug or two of beer btw :( ] people started falling asleep and within half an hour, only a few of us were left sitting by the fire. i lied down on my back watching the night sky riddled with white dots (with glasses, the stars don't sparkle as much!)... when i saw a noticeably larger white dot materialize, whiz across and vanish.. all this in about a second! super cool!! i was just thinking about how lucky i was to have seen a shooting star, when i saw another one!!! yes a second shooting star within a gap of a few minutes!! :D ... then i later realized (well, i was reminded actually), that i should've made a wish! :( i forgot to!

oh and the paragraph above is probably the longest ever paragraph i've ever written in my life!! my paragraphs are usually much shorter!

anyway... umm.. i'm doing spanish in the morning these days. it's pretty cool! and i started computer (actionscript) classes from today! but the teacher was sooo boring!! i hope i can survive his classes for the rest of the month!

and... there's less than a week before i get my admission decision from Penn!!!!!!!! from my use of exclamation marks, it looks like i'm soo excited! but actually, i'm neither excited nor nervous! i guess tht feeling will come only a day or two before the decision date!! :)

ok then... byee.. adios! hasta la vista!

it's sunday

but I don't have school tomorrow! :D

oh and btw, i've my spanish lessons starting tomorrow! and i don't even know the name of the teaching place... my bro told me he knew a good place and without even asking me, he had me enrolled! anyway, i'll take a few classes and see if i like the place.

and, i got this from CB:
"Because the report was not received, we are mailing a replacement free of charge. The report will be sent within two business days. Please allow for the usual postal delivery time."

too late for me though. this came two days after i spent $35 to rush report the scores! :(

ok well... i guess tht's it for now. bye

mee

Sorryyyy....

I know i said i would start blogging once my exams were over…. but I've actually gotten busier now… busy having fun!! yep!

so what haven't I written about in my blog??... umm.. oh yea! I applied ED to the University of Pennsylvania for a mechanical engineering major! I so hope I get in. But I received an email from Penn yesternight saying that they hadn't received my October SAT 2 scores yet!!! gawd! I know I put Penn as one of the score recipients when I registered for the SAT 2s… so how come they haven't received it yet! trust CB to screwup!!!

anyway, I just got a pair of glasses today. It's kinda cool. I'm happy my eyes haven't deteriorated although I haven't worn glasses in a long long time!

and… oh yea.. got a haircut that I absolutely hate. no choice… my dad despised my sorta long hair and was constantly nagging about it!... bah… wut am I blabbering for?? it's just HAIR!!

ok so long ppl… I'll try and make sure I've sth more interesting to talk about next time!

long time no post!

sorry... but I had my exams to deal with! :( .. They'll be over on the 17th, after which I can post more regularly! :)

Anyway, since my last post, I've been busy with exams and college applications! I've already sent in one of my apps but I'm not too optimistic about it since Penn's a verrry competitive university and my stats really aren't up there. i hope it can see my passion and desire to attend the college through my essays!

Also, I had my MIT interview today! yay!! I don't think I'm applying to MIT but nevertheless, took it. The interviewer kinda compelled me to, actually. He scheduled the interview without me showing real interest, and then called me to confirm it! hehe. Nice man. I think it went pretty well.... though unfortunately I faltered on one important question: Why MIT? hehe... Since I haven't really been considering the university, I didn't have a good answer to this one. Anyway, I survived through it. I still don't think I'm applying to MIT though. It's next to impossible for someone with stats like mine to get in!

Ok that's it for now I guess... take care and wish me luck!!! ;)

and it's over

[NOTE: ooops... i was supposed to have posted this on september 17th.... unfortunately i only just realized i had only saved it as a draft!!!!! gawdd.... i'lll post it now.. it's an old one though.. just before my mock tests were over!! enjoy anyway!! it's nov 6th today but i've left the date of posting as it is!]
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Ok, finally the exams are over... well, almost. i've an english language paper on monday. but it's not sth we need to study for. so i'm just enjoying the weekend. (bekki, u can skip to the last paragraph... :))

trying to... actually. i downloaded this "Age of Empires III: Starwars" and played it till after 2am yesternight. Then I went to bed without worrying abt waking up early or anything.

then at 7.00 my sister comes to wake me up!!! some fren called! man, was i frustrated! he wanted to know if I could figure out why 'windows' wasn't openin in his comp. HOW WOULD I KNOW?????? i told him to call a freakin comp mechanic or sth. all week long i'd been waitin for this night.. to sleep peacefully for as long as i want!! thanks for ruinin my day! i couldn't get back to sleep and was groggy throughout the day.

though of course, it wasn't exactly his fault. so i couldn't spill my frustrations on him. :( and it isn't really pleasant to have frustrations bottled inside a groggy mind. the frustration just keeps buildin up... and you can't do anything about it other than get even more frustrated... !!

ok, now tht i've let off some of my frustrations, i can continue. oh well, i'm lying a bit here. i did fall asleep sometime in the afternoon. and after tht, my rejuvenated self had a nice chat with a fren. and my spirits are back up again. :)

btw, my exams didn't go too well. but don't be sorry. all my fault. i shoulda been studyin throughout the year, rather than a day before the exams.

just when you thought this blog was forgotten...

i know it hasn't been toooo long since i last posted but it feels like forever! anyway, my exams are still going on. i have an easy physics practical paper tomorrow so i can afford to laze around tonight.

ummm... i was plannin to write a really long blog entry tonight but i seem to have run out of stuff to write! i could always write about my day.. but tht would be borin.

this blogger's block is really annoying!! i'm just goin to shut up now... will be back when i've sth more interesting to write abt. that may be next week.... when my exams are over. so hang in there! :) i promise u sth good...

done with schoool..... (well almost)

so today we had the last day of classes... officially! mock exams start next week. and after that we'll probably again have a few days of classes to discuss the mock tests... then only the finals remain!!

and on saturday i've a football match against the guys at my former school... and i've to make it to USEF by 12 for the TOEFL test on the same day! it's goin to be fun though... playing with friends i have known since grade 1. i'm a little concerned with the TOEFL however... it's barely two days away and I haven't even checked out the TOEFL prep cd I borrowed from a friend only yesterday.
so much to do... so little time. but i KNOW i'll make it!! win the footie match, ace the TOEFL and get great grades in the mock tests! :) oh i hope so!!

to blog or not to blog... that's not my question

i've had a pretty boring weekend... exams start in little over a week so i did some studying... though not as much as I had initially planned to. i'm a big time slacker i know... i've still some math assignment left that i'm going to try complete right after i post this entry. though i just got myself a graphing calculator so math assignments take lesser time and scratchwork.. :D makes things so much easier.

ok for the next couple of weeks, i'll be a little irregular with my posts owing to my exams. hope you understand. i don't want to be sittin here, weeks later, writing "i spoiled my exams... and i'm really mad. i think it has to do with my spending time on this blog thing... i hate you blog.. goodbye...forever" ... not a pretty scene!!

so adios.. i'm off to work..!

Operation sigma

apologies for not writing in yesternight. maybe that was why i saw a really weird dream last night and i want to write it down before i forget... it's still quite sketchy though.. i tend to forget my dreams rather easily.

I don't remember where exactly the dream begins but after a while..

terrorists were attacking our school and people were sent out to fight.
... (darn i know i'm missing something here!)
and then our principal calls me and says, "Ok, what's your plan? What do you need?" I was, supposedly, the head of our school's 'army'! So i outline to her what we are planning to do and tell her, "We'll be needing one of those night vision glasses. It's pretty dark out there and if we use flashlights, we'll be spotted easily." After some initial hesitance, she agrees. And then sends me off to fight as well. "They've already advanced to stage four and we need to stop them before they reach the 10th," she says. So I head off to fight.

And I'm kinda thinking, oh why did I have to be the head of the squad and risk myself? I might get killed today! But I go ahead and start looking around for terrorists. It's really dark.
Then I'm outside the building and it's not as dark here. I spot a terrorist and start shooting.. he ducks out of sight. I wait... and he reappears. I start shooting again.. he disappears again but i continue shooting and I run out of bullets... i reload... he reappears.. i continue shooting randomly. he falls down dead.
I turn around and see another terrorist and start firing. "stop," he screams, "i'm on your team." ...oh!

i stop and wait while he walks over to me. then we look around together but find no other terrorists. i almost shoot some people, but find out they are all on my team!
finally, someone tells us that the terrorists have been defeated. yaaayyyy!!

one of the guys on my team then talks about our tactics.. "good thing we didn't use night vision glasses, there'd have been misunderstandings since our outfits were so alike!"
i feel stupid. "ok, but i ordered night vision glasses because i thought that might help. let's not mention this to the principal ok?" and i'm thinking... we could have used the glasses too... shoot a bullet or two at whoever you see and if he fires back, keep shooting, if he doesn't, he's on our side!

anyway, we are then in the principal's room, kneeling, as if we were knights come back after defeating a war. the principal comes to me with a sword and touchin it to my head, in true knighting style, says something like, "let thou be..... shadows....." and laughs along with us because we all know she's just kidding with the whole knighting thing.

end of dream... can't help it if it was boring :)
and ..i actually forgot what exactly she said while knighting me.. but it was sth stupid. and the dream doesnt' actually end there.. but i forgot what happened afterwards.
now that i think of it, the whole war thing was like a computer game! no wonder i was so cruel with that glasses theory of mine where you shoot just to see if he's a friend or a foe!! and that stage four thingy!! lol.. i should cut down on games i guess...!

...hope you aren't all confused!!!
that's all folks! ;) hope you guys have a great weekend!

the 10th entry

so on the auspicious occasion of my tenth blog entry, i present to you a poem i wrote way back in 2001, was in grade 8 or 9 ;) ..not a very good one but back then i thought it was really good ...the 3rd stanza is the worst and the others follow closely. feel free to comment harshly on the poem.. i wrote the whole thing in one short sitting just because i wanted to send SOMETHING to poetry.com ! and surprisingly enough i got an 'editor's choice award' certificate thing from the website!! i've never submitted anything else since... realizin what a phony it was! all they want to do is get your poem published in a book (no matter how crappy the poem is), and have you buy the book!

here's the certificate: haha.. i wouldn't have given it to myself!


and finally, the poem itself,

Hunting Season

The woodland is dark and eerily quiet
Except for the chirping birds, the trees
Crunching of the dry leaves under his foot
And the rustling of leaves in the breeze

Along the familiar trodden path
The hunter makes his way alone
Making not the slightest noise
A ritual for years he has known

He stands erect, listening hard
Then turns his head towards his right
Oh! There it stands, a female deer
So splendid even in such dim light

Raising his rifle to the level of his ear
He pulls the trigger letting a shot ring out
The doe so lovely, falls down at the spot
It lives no more; it's dead without doubt

Another deer dead in the season's dawn
And another one left a motherless fawn
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thanks for the patience... ;)

don't bother readin

borin day..

and when walkin back home, i was tellin this friend (we share the same bus stop) how groggy i was feeling and she was like, "oh yea.. you've been lookin this way the entire day.. right since i saw you at the bus stop this morning." :-/

i'll keep it short today. i didn't complete my maths assignment yesterday and the teacher now wants yesterday's as well as the new assingnments done by tomorrow. though not difficult it's a lot of work!!

ok gnite :)

when things go wrong... and right

mixed day for me..
like most mornings, this morning too i sat in front of my computer to check my mail with a cup of coffee on the side .. no emails. so i was blindly and rather hastily reachin for my coffee when i accidentally knocked the cup over onto my keyboard.. but with my fast reflexes to aid me, i managed to catch the cup halfway before full damage was done.. then i placed the cup on the floor and proceeded to wipe the liquid off my keyboard with tissues. took some time and quite a lot of tissues before i was done. happy with a job well done, i was just stepping away when i knocked the half full cup of coffee onto the carpet!!! .. :/ a nice way to start the day!

needless to say, my mom was furious with me.. i was actually happy to leave home for school today! and oh, i've barely over a week of classes left before high school is done! yeaa. though of course there are still the finals to tackle.. stupid A-level exams are spread over two months(oct/nov)! and no matter how crappy or good i was throughout high school, these final grades will be the only ones that will get to my transcript! so i better do welll..

rained heavily during the day... and since i had only a couple of free classes today, i just played table tennis indoors. was havin fun losing to everyone.. and suddenly i remembered my bag..woah.. it was outside in the heavy rain!! i scrambled to get it.. the bag looked sodden but fortunately it was all dry on the inside.. ! thank god for waterproof bags.. i had important stuff in there!

also played some four-a-side football (not american football) when the rain abated. our group of 4 was invincible... we lost count of the number of goals we made, and didn't concede a single one! haha.. scored quite a few myself with numerous assists.. ;)

oh and i almost forgot to mention this.. my 'letter to the editor' got published in the kathmandu post. i'd sent about three emails regarding the blooper to the post last friday, but they didn't respond. and i wrote this crappy piece abt rising oil prices under some ficticious name and it got published! haha..

that's it for today i guess... until tomorrow then.

picturesque

is it still a creative block if you are stuck when writing a blog entry?

anyway, since it wasn't a very eventful day, i'll write about something else today... my trip to everest base camp earlier this year! well, i didn't really get to everest base camp as i had planned to, due to time constraints. the group i was with was verrrry slow and so we only got to about 4000m (~13100ft). nevertheless it was a lot of fun.. here are a few low res photos from the trip..

i found this guy dozing off in the museum near namche bazaar, the central 'town' in the area. one of the tourists there was tellin me the equipment was "real stuff from the early mountaineers"... but did they really use wooden sticks to climb everest..?

i took the photo on the right simply because i could! it's an army base which is located right beside the museum. the army people were tellin me I wasn't allowed to take any photo of their army base or my cam would be confiscated... so i went outside the fence and took a pic and headed down the mountain .. not a very wise thing to do though..

if you are wondering, i took this photo myself. nice isn't it? but the view there is so good, it'd be a miracle to ruin a shot!! ;) this was on the way to the "Everest View Hotel", which at 13000 ft, is the highest 5-star hotel in the world.


and this one on the right shows a view of another mountain from the hotel itself. 2 bonus points for spotting a fly in the photo.. actually you can also see mt Everest itself from the hotel, but since it was midday the view was a little hazy.

and this here to the left, is the skull of a yeti... at least tht's what i was told it was. and a monk told me that since tourists kept snippin off some hair from the skull, they decided to put the skull in a glass case. one of the guys in our group was skeptical about the authenticity of the skull.. he was like, "they did have a yeti skull here but long back it went for a world tour and never returned.. where did this one come from?"

and this is namche bazaar, the central 'town' in the area. boasts of everything from cybercafes, bakeries(french/german) to discotheques. (though i didn't see any discos around). very lively place... and equally expensive.this here is a suspension bridge.. and the thread like thing you see flying towards the left from the bridge is a long chain of numerous white scarves... the last one is mine! the wind was blowin really hard, making it difficult to pull the chain of scarves in to tie my scarf there... but no job is too difficult for me. thankfully this was the bridge where the wind was less harsh.. on the other one, you almost felt like it would knock you off your feet!

that's all for today then... take care.

self destruction and the big bang

Another weekend gone... and as always, was not very productive. Okay, weekends are meant to be a time to relax and all. but mock exams start sept 6... and i've whole subjects to revise! and all i did was study a little cosmology which is only a physics option.

it's raining heavily outside, complete with thunder and lightning. oh and i got this picture of kathmandu city from Google Earth. that grayish blue patch towards the right bottom of the pic is the Kathmandu valley... that's the entire capital city..so you can imagine the sizes of the surrounding hills and mountains.

also i've been doin some blog hopping, or blogopping, and found some interesting blogs. found that so many had spam comments as well! thank god i've none yet.. hope there'll be none too or i'll have to include that word verification thing for comments.. which isn't very cool. so stay away spam..

nothin really interesting happened today... so i'll use the rest of this space to recap on my cosmology study. ;) uninterested can stop right here. c ya.

ok, the rest of you nerds.. long before Newton put forward his theories of gravity, how did scientists explain the falling of objects straight to the ground? ... they believed it was because the earth was stationary! and so the earth must be in the center of the solar system. oh, if only i could go back in time and teach them a thing or two about the universe! lol...

now for something more intellectual: before the big bang, everything was concentrated in one tiny spot, time and space included. so what was around that spot? nothing. absolutely nothing. no space... no time.. just nothing. it's so darn confusing.. .how can nothing exist? think about it.. and leave your comments!

the end... entry self destructing in 3...2...1... oh.. malfunctioned again.. c ya tomorrow then!

edit: chelsea vs arsenal game tonite... can't miss it!!!! GO BLUES!!!
edit2: CHELSEA WON!!!! wooohoooo!! ... 1-0 GO BLUES!!!

here comes saturday.... and here it goes!

today's topics: wallpaper, weather, electricity, sleep paralysis and weirdo factor! some topics in more detail than others...

ok, my sister has had the same "windows xp" wallpaper for a longggg time! so i was suggestin she change her wallpaper and she agreed, "perhaps i should have my own photo on my desktop." well, it's her choice. but she had no pics of her in her computer... so the obvious solution was to get new photos.

but she just wouldn't let me take her photo!! ..maybe she wanted to play the celebrity who is chased down by a paparazzo! anyway, i managed to get a few shots... and the pic here shows what her desktop looks like right now... :) .. that was the best shot i got! she asked for my help and i had to help her, didn't i?

the weather: the day was overcast and it even rained for a while. also, the electricity was out for a few hours during the day! i called up the electricity place and they said they had some "systems problem" in my area... whatever that means!

oh and yes, i had this sleep paralysis thing today. when i awoke i couldn't move my body at all... was totally paralysed... like i was pinned to my bed! if u don't know what sleep paralysis means, check out this link. apparently, when we are in deep sleep, our bodies are kinda paralysed. and if we happen to awaken directly from this deep sleep, we become fully conscious but our bodies are still paralysed... not a pleasant experience but it happens. nothing too serious though. it corrects itself.

but what's confusing to me is i don't know whether i dreamed that i had sleep paralysis or i actually had sleep paralysis. because i had jus read abt this thing not too long ago!

switching topics, how weird are you? find out here. turns out i'm 30% weird...!!

the case of the scared thread

today's janai purnima, the day of the scared thread! yes, 'scared thread'. at least that's what i learned from the front page of today's kathmandu post. i always thought it was the festival of the sacred thread. but who can argue with nepal's leading daily? if the post says the thread is scared, it is scared! here's what the photo caption read:

A brahmin priest preparing Janai, scared thread, for Janai Purnima festival at Lalitpur's Kumbeshwor temple premises, on Thursday.

so my mission today was to find out: who scared the thread?

first i questioned the priest, who insisted that the thread he was tying around my wrist was a sacred thread that protects the 'wearer', and not some cowardly thread. he found my suggestion ludicrous and laughed heartily at my expense. ohhh... evil priests!

next stop: my cousin's. the elders were all amused by my question and believed it was just a misprint by the kathmandu post. but i refuse to believe that such a reputed daily will have a typo in a photo caption on it's front page!

my 7 year old cousin offered to help. he suggested a wrestling match up. i didn't know how that would answer my question but i believed he knew what he was doing. so we wrestled... was a lot of fun actually. boy, does he know his moves! so in the end we lay on the floor exhausted, out of breath... but i was no closer to the answer.

i gave up in the end and decided to write to kathmandu post itself. i haven't received any replies yet... ohh.. i don't think they'll answer... probably too busy with important stuff.

but curiosity is killin me... someone tell me plzzzzz..... why was the thread scared???

the wabbit

i had just entered my room after school today when i heard someone say, "what's up doc?".. i turned towards the source of this mysterious voice.. and guess what i saw?.. this wabbit sittin on top of my closet! where did u come frm u little wabbit? i asked. "the name's bunny," he replied, "bugs bunny". yea rite, like i'd believe a silly wabbit. how did u get in? i asked. "classified information" he said sternly. have you met a more annoyin wabbit? n he just wouldn't leave my room! oh n he's still here, watchin me as i type... o_O bug off bugs!

haha... as u can see, i've nothin better to do tonite! n for those of you who are a little too gullible... i was just kiddin with the whole bugs thing!! lol. n yea, it's the eve of a 3-day weekend... wooohooo!!

anythin interestin happen today? umm... oh yea. not too interestin but i'll write it down anyway.. i was playing basketball at school today, when one of my opponents grabbed my shirt as i was runnin to get the ball... n three of the buttons from my shirt were ripped right off! darn. had to walk around holdin my shirt together in place!!....well, until a fren came up with an idea... staple my shirt together! but bad luck didn't want to let go of me just yet.. no one had a stapler! so had to run around for quite some time until i found one in the accounts room! and did the stapler work?...........yea, it did. thank god..... alright.. this is boring..

moving on, .. darn there's nothin to move on to. i'll just have to sign off now...
congrats for makin it to the end of this entry!.. :) so long... until tomorrow!

p.s. wabbit = rabbit, jus that wabbit sounds better. and special thanks to my sis for lettin me shoot her wabbit! :)

making of the blog: day 2

the title is courtesy of Anonymous, whose was the first comment in my blog!! well, he obviously was tryin too hard to write sth nice (i know who u are!)... hehe thanks for the comment...

and i'm happy that I actually studied today.... self satisfied :) i've attached this pic here as evidence... well, i could've faked it for all u know, but believe me, i worked continuously for 2 hours or so and finished my eng assignment that i had been putting off since last weekend... my work habit is absolutely terrible!

i feel so good right now... despite the fact that i still have a math assignment to complete. i'll leave that for tomorrow... u can't do everything in a day can you? moreover friday is a holiday! so it's going to be a 3-day weekend... ;)

so what else? umm... nothin really worth writing about i think...

this should be good enough for today... u'll hear from me tomorrow ... hopefully!

umm.... my first blog

Ok... my first entry

umm... wut do i write now??? how did my day go? lemme think...

oh yea.. today was bekki's birthday... so HAPPY BIRTHDAY to u!! yea, i know i couldn't wish her personally so she was mad at me! if i'd had the chance i wud have of course, but... u know... anyway happy birthday again sis.. have a great party too! i miss the 'mars' ;)

and tonite... didn't do anything useful. i just let my hours waste away online... doin stupid stuff like.. creating this BLOG!!! wut am i thinkin? exams r so near! should be buried in books rite now...

this is all for my first boring blog then.... i'm bored myself... so gnite.. hopefully i'll come up with sth better tomorrow! yaaaaaaaawnnnnn...