NO, MY LAPTOP'S STILL NOT WORKING..

10:55am, computer centre (it's centRE not centER over here), and i'm wasting my time again.
but no, in this blog i won't try to complain too much. it gets tiring, you see. =)

how long has it been? wayne tells me it's been WAY TOO LOOONG since my last entry.
oh well (do i say this a little too much, oil guy? ;) ).
si wayne pa, who checks recently-published blogs almost in real-time, what with his netscape alerter of sorts.

how long has it been, really? hmmm.. my last blog was monday morning, my pc broke down i forgot when, um, tuesday night yata.

oh, i remember now.
broke down monday evening when i was reinstalling, surprise of surprises, NORTON ANTIVIRUS. went to user support tuesday noon to find out that the NUS-VPN client (which i use to connect to the net) was never down, went back wednesday morning to have my pc checked only to find out that i should have it reformatted.
i borrowed my thai friend boat's 40GB high-speed external hard disk (which had only 6GB free) yesterday, plugged it into my NON-high-peed USB port, struggled with file transfer problems, and now my computer's being reformatted upstairs (i told you, i'm in the comcen).


anyway, sabado na pala. no class yesterday and the other day. seriously, i have been wasting time.
guess what i did yesterday? backed up my pc by squeezing my essential laptop data into 6GB of boat's ext'l hard drive. and you know what that meant?
that, my friends, meant that i had to watch all my videos in my PC, so i could finally delete them.
i had episodes of will and grace, smallville, CSI, sex and the city, the survivor (pearl islands pa!) pilot episode which i missed.
it was fun, actually, but the nagging thought that i didn't do something productive PRODUCTIVE, made me feel quite bad at the end of the day.

maybe i need to watch another crazy episode of will and grace to make me feel better. hahahaha.
hilarious really.


sigh. i really should get myself to study.
God knows i tried my darndest to study math the other night.

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SOBER


oh yeah, after watching american idol (results show) in korinna's room with ivy and kor (i have no net pa kasi), i went back up to the study room to um, study.
i was feeling quite sleepy and told myself i'd go get me a can of coffee from the vendo from E-block.

boat, the guy who lent me the hard disk, called me from E2, and invited me to my laotian friend xay's room for some drinks.

what drinks exactly? the most expensive drinks i've ever drunk.
guinness beer, tequila, red wine, vodka (?), some orange juice and syrup.

diana, brice, dustin, xay, and boat wanted to celebrate for no specific reason.
having turned down brice many times before, for refusing to play diablo (excuse: i have to study! can't get addicted!), and not going to the gym (excuse: pr comm! fencing open! hafta study! after the midterms, promise!), i gave in to brice a.k.a. mr. bartender this time.

i realized how dumb i was in the wine-and-booze world.
brice was just handing over glass after glass to me. explaining that "don't-mix-this" and "this-is-bloody-tequila" etc..

it was fun actually. my very first time to drink DRINK.
maybe i needed a drink too, since i was feeling a little upset about my blasted PC which had to be reformatted, about my losing battle against zits and the temptation to NOT study, about the crazy misfortunes that seem to bombard me for no apparent reason.

boat told me i was quite tough, having been able to remain sober after a number of assorted drinks brice was handing over, and maybe i was, since i probably am quite alcohol-resistant like my good ol' dad.
or, maybe it was just the ruffles chips that we were munching. dustin told us eating chips helps in resisting the alcohol.

we were singing the milk-and-cereal song too, the video of which is quite popular on the net.
catchy song too. i didn't realize that we were getting too noisy already, such that the guys from the next block could hear.

the guard came up, actually, and simply smiled at us. dunno what that meant. friendly guard, even before.

diana says she's allergic to beer, but she seems to be always game. kinda like me.

diana, though, was getting quite drunk, and she had to throw up in the kitchenette.
brice and boat escorted her to her room, and later escorted ME to my room.

they didn't need to escort me tough. i was sober enough to realize i left my keys in the study room, went down four floors, walked to the foyer, climbed a floor to the study room, went down, then up four floors again to my room.

i was a little tipsy, but i managed to wash myself up and brush my teeth before finally sinking into my bed.
that was a good night, really. and quite expensive too, those drinks.

my initiation to the booze world. (i know i won't be hooked though, so don't worry.) =)