Sarah's engaged!

Congrats SARAH S on your engagement!!!

Received a text from her earlier today about her marriage proposal from her bf after a romantic hot air balloon ride at Christchurch *AWWW*

Sarah- a super smart (future doctor!), beautiful, ever smiley flatmate @ Jane Malthus, Studholme Hall in 2006. She even knows how to say a few Malay words hehe, we even taught her how to play mahjong and how to say "lah" the Malaysian way.

I'll always remember those times when we wake up so early to attend those 8am health science lectures, watching 24 (the tv series) every week, her teaching me how to play "more than words" on her classical guitar, flying kite at St Clair beach, etc. Ahhhh memories :)

It's not funny how many friends are getting engaged recently; GAH I'm getting old.

confessions of a movie/tv series addict

NZ's next top model has ended! (what to watch next Friday?!)

Christobelle has had my vote since I started watching the show. I still can't believe she's only 16! Imagine not attending classes but going straight into the fashion industry...


Went to watch the Terminator Salvation so Amy texted me updates on the show as I'd missed the last half of it. hehe live feed. Thank goodness tv3 has free streaming of the episode.

My rating: 8.5 out of 10 (5 out of the 8.5 is probably due to Christian Bale being casted in the movie ;P ) He's going to be in T5 too, yay!

I'm not a follower of the Terminator series, so had Chyi fill me in on the plot and how Bale's character, Connor fit into the movie and all. All I remembered about the past 3 was Arnie being in it, muscles and all. ;P *spoiler alert* Arnie did appear in the movie for a few minutes (well, technically). If I had time, I'd probably take some to watch the previous movies and rewatch the 4th one.

Sigh. Drools.

I would turn vegetarian just for him.
(he has been one, since 6 years of age! source: IMDB)

huh what study notes? :P

something random

I haven't been THIS nervous since- hmm I can't even remember when I last felt nervous! Probably during my Grade 7 piano exam in 2004? Or first time ever playing the keyboard at church here back in 2006? First kiss? :p Or whenever it was when I had my last bloodtest for a medical checkup & the fear of suffering from another panic attack.

But YESH HIGH 5 everyone who prayed for me/texted me good luck/encouraged me in any way at all- my oral exam is over and done with! Well, for this paper anyway. 2 more orals next semester GAH.

Anyway, having to sit through 15 minutes of interrogation-style oral exam by 3 of your lecturers (in a room with you sitting on one end, 3 of them on the other) was so nerve wrecking!!! Clammy hands, fidgeting, babbling, erm-ing and ahhh-ing, talking too fast that I don't even make sense, forgetting basic stuff that I SHOULD know, waiting outside the room while a straight A student is having her turn before me: *phew* big sigh of relief!

Results were out (yeah so fast!) at 6pm ish when I checked my email (my orals was at 3.50pm by the way)- I'm not complaining about the B+ but yes it could have been better. 3 questions: I think I screwed up the answer to the last question by being too specific and hence not really answering the question :P Congrats Ron on the A, you totally deserved it after not having slept for days haha! No matter how stressed I am, not sleeping is NOT an option.

Right in the middle of the exam, got a text from Chyi- haha random. Walked around town for a bit- I was still hyperventilating/suffering from post-traumatic stress then, then bought tickets to go see Terminator 4 tomorrow night :) I checked out IMDB, and realised that the 1st Terminator movie came out in 1984- even before I was born. oh wow.

P.S. Sharon my flatmate bakes really nice almond biscotti. See, I'm so nice to you! winks

another P.S. I've found a link to download the mp3 version of the Love Story/Viva la vida medley by Jon Schmidt here =)

lovely tune

Even if you're not a fan of the song "Love Story" by Taylor Swift, have a listen to this! My flatmate Sharon introduced it to me hehehe :) We proposed having this performed live during someone's wedding day (whoever's getting married the soonest!)

Feeling a little lightheaded after spending loooooong hours in the library. Dinner will be ready soon yay!

want vs. need

For the same reason I'm not keen on being one of them in the photo above, I'm taking a degree most people don't even know what it's about (and will often ask "so what will you work as?" or silly questions like "oh, so that's a combination of biology and technology...?") as opposed of doing a course in journalism- which I admit if circumstances were different I wouldn't mind pursuing.

But still, that doesn't stop many of us from loving photography- who doesn't?

From the ah lians on facebook and friendster who bombard their photo albums with 100 photos of themselves (just in slightly different angles) taken using terribly bad phone-camera quality, to professional wedding photographers charging about $1000/hour for their services; we can't imagine a world without cameras *horrified gasp* Imagine: what would facebook be without any photos?

Anyway, my point is: I'm perfectly happy with my current baby- Canon Powershot SX 110 IS which I bought last September. But the greedy side of me has been researching (besides constant studying :P) on current on-the-market DSLRs.

...and then I found it: Canon EOS 5D Mark II

beautiful, eh?

See the comprehensive review here.

It's fairly new (released August 2008 I think?), hence the insanely high price of close to NZD7000 for body and kit (on trademe, anyway). I know, I know: 7000 is even enough to get a good car here. But hey, a little motivation leading up to graduation wouldn't hurt, right? =P