Yay! Made it before the midnight deadline :D

First things first: Thank you thank you thank you maureen for setting us up with the blog buddies thing, because it will probably take you ages and ages to plow through 17+ pages of profiles. >< And it would be an absolutely lovely thing to get to know other nerdfighters with similar interests :D and support each other through BEDA.

And thanks maureen for starting BEDA, because it's a great avenue for everyone to share their thoughts on issues close to their hearts, and good practice for putting these thoughts into words. Without BEDA, I would never have gotten to know so many lovely bloggers or get to read john's/ maureen's/ kristina's/ hayley's blogs every day. Prior to starting this, I thought it would just be another way of getting me to write crap every day, but knowing that someone out there is reading my entries gives me more incentive to write better blogs. I also have more ownership of my opinions and respect for others' perspectives as a result of this.

[The above sounds awfully like what I would write on the last day of BEDA, but I felt that I had to say this now before I forget. And I never thought I would say this, but I'll be kind of sad once BEDA ends ): And yes, I'm repeating myself from yesterday, but it doesn't hurt to say these things twice, does it?]

Today is the first time in forever that I have a title on my blogpost. This is a result of reading untitled blogs on google reader, and not knowing what the entry is about. Though admittedly the title has nothing whatsoever to do with what I'm saying/ about to say. I just discovered the "baby it's cold outside" cover by julia nunes and wade johnston (lol I'm always late) and LOVED it; went on to look up the christmas collab playlist and found a bunch of awesome musicians, so that's great :D

And it's never usually "cold outside" in singapore anyway. It was so awfully hot a few days ago that I almost melted, because my fan wasn't working. (a high of 33 Celsius, which doesn't seem hot relative to places like dubai, but it was kind of hot.) And then yesterday it was raining so heavily that I actually wanted a jacket. But in terms of weather here, it's either hot or raining, so there's not much to talk about. Good for small talk though, because you can never go wrong with: "Hasn't it been warm lately?" or a similar variation.

dumdumdum. It's strange that I originally intended this to be an "I'm irritated and this is why" post, because I'm more than halfway through and I've never mentioned any of that.

Three months into my new school, and I'm not so miserable as I thought I would be. This is because of my lovely caring friends who make it a hell lot easier to get through the day. My days are relatively bummy; more of this on another post. It's exciting to get to know new people who happen to be funny and interesting-- before I started school I thought most people would be boring, (an underestimation! and proof of my pessimism) but I digress. There are also english lit classes on thursdays and fridays (tomorrow!) and in my thursday class I am so lucky to have friends who understand all the literary references. The fact that the teachers are funny makes lectures very enjoyable. And then I have my philosophy class on monday mornings-- we're doing Machiavelli's The Prince now-- which casts away my monday blues.

haha I was in class today doing a presentation and this happened:

ME: So this article mentions "Catcher in the Rye" and how its violence is a negative influence on society; does anyone think something is wrong with the author's argument?
EVERYONE: =gives me the "I have no idea what you are saying" look=
ME: Has anyone read "Catcher in the Rye"?
EVERYONE: *silence* (I could hear crickets.)

I can't blame them; I only read Catcher after reading Looking for Alaska last year. And we were supposed to be leading the discussion, but I wasn't expressing myself clearly enough, and it was epic fail. No one understood what I was asking 80% of the time, and I didn't understand myself either.