goood morning ann arbor!

anyone watched the show "good morning america"? it's about this army radio dee-jay who motivated the american troops when they were in saigon fighting the vietnam war. that's kind of what i am feeling right now. its a bright and sunny day and all i wanna do right now is to run around in the sun right now.

things are pretty good now i guess. my polsci 140 exam has been pushed back to next monday, my orientation commitee will be having our first meeting this week, going to UIUC (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne) for the Mid-western games this weekend... things are looking up in CollegeScope as well. Everything's pretty great now actually. i think its all due to me actually being able to see the sun again. 1 more month before i touch down in singapore. exams end on the 27th of april for me, so i guess i'll be leaving this place either on the 28th or 29th then. so much stuff to do before that though. never mind, taking each day as it comes =)

did a pretty funny psychology test just now. i was supposed to do a questionaire and filled test tubes with my saliva at the same time. hah. quite a sight actually. pretty embarassing too, especially when i actually missed a few times and ho ho soiled myself. hah. should have seen the look on the tester's face; i din know whether she was pink from laughter or disgust. pretty hard to discern actually, when i was busy trying my best to act normal, all the while wiping my pants frantically.

you know how it is when you get caught looking at someone? well i got caught today. hah. there's this girl in my class whom i think is pretty cute, and yes thus provides a source of motivation for attending the class. was talking to my friend in class and unknowingly cast a glance in her direction, and opps she turned around at the same time and i was caught red-handed. now now those of u who know me will realize that i blush like a bloody red packet, so my ears were red and all. how embarassing. wished i could dig a hole and hide. how i managed to get out of the class at the end, and preserved whatever's left of my dignity, well i never know...

since i'm on the topic of embarassing incidents, here's the one at the top of my list. this occured back in primary school, but it haunts me to this very day. here's a disclaimer: i never ever did such a thing again! this is what happened...

i was early for school. feeling a little hungry, i bought my favourite cha-shao bao from the dim sum stall for breakfast. this proved to be my downfall. pretty soon i was down with a very bad tummyache. you know, the ones that leaves you soaked in cold sweat and trembling from the weakness in your legs. this was how it was as i attended morning assembly. walking back to class, i could hold no further. let's just say that the gates of the nether world opened and all hell broke loose. how i could do this while walking, i never knew. it puzzles me to this very day.

anyway, i rushed to the toilet a.s.a.p.. sitting there on the toilet bowl, sobbing like a girl because i realized the futility of it (isn't it too late to visit the toilet AFTER you've crapped?), i proceeded to clean myself. hah. this meant using the toilet paper to wipe my shorts clean, if you know what i mean. how i never thought to simply throw away my underpants bewilders me till today. i think i wasn't comfortable with going 'commando' in my school shorts. hah. anyway, i went back to class thinking i could feign ignorance.

my friends picked up the smell immediately. i swore they all had a dog's sense of smell. they hounded me like dogs too, asking me where i thought the smell came from. at wits' end, i came up with a bloody lame excuse, that the person sitting in the chair before me crapped in the chair, thus it was the chair that stank. i remember taking exaggerated sniffs at the chair to prove my point, all the while shaking my head in disbelief at my pathetic attempts to hide the truth. if my friends could smell like dogs, they somehow weren't that bright too. they bought my story. and so it was, me enduring the whole day smelling like crap, and my classmates not questioning a word because they believed my 'crap in the chair' story.

how i endured wearing the soiled underpants for a whole day before going home and throwing them down the rubbish chute (i couldn't have thrown them into the laundry bin. my mum would have slaughtered me) is beyond me. i swore there and then never to eat cha-shao bao in the morning ever again. =)