Of Life

Dear TomHa,

Watched Brothers Grimm with LiJia yesternight and gosh, I just cannot stop remarking how long it has been for me since I last entered a cinema. I mean, it might not be very long for other people but for an avid movie-goer like me, with the last movie being Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, it certainly felt long. Brothers Grimm was not too bad a movie I guess, given that there were many references to those fairy tale stories like Cinderella, Snow White, Little Red Riding Hood and there even is a reference to an enchanted axe which I cannot stop commenting "Isn't that from a chinese fairy tale?" Hmmm. Wellzz. There was Monica Belluci as the evil mirror queen in the end which provided more than eye candy to the show of a very GRIM atmosphere. Wellzz. Quite ok ba, 3 poppcorns out of 5.

Did not do much this holidays. Lucky me, my holidays turned out to be more than a week given that it was Engine Day last Friday (The organisers were so proud they got the Vice-Dean for the gues-of-honour...Big Deal) and there is no lesson tommorrow. Did not do more than a quarter of what I had set out to do, which is to catch up a little on all my modules (Yes, I lagged behind for ALL modules), call up more sponsors (Only managed one), run more (Alright I achieved this), climb more stairs (Did only 3 sets of 28floors.. think I sure cannot make it for assessment this sat liao..sigh). So what exactly did I do then? Went on a fishing trip with Malaysian cousins, and we caught only 1 fish after sitting by the pier for like 5 hours? Kaozz.. Watched so much TV, it was almost as if TV was just invented. Other than these, all I did was to stare blankly at the ceiling on my bed or playing table-tennis with the wall. Was too lazy to move.

Am contemplating to quit mountaineering after hearing about the cost break down and the amount of money which we had to fork out ourselves. It is a humongous amount of money to fork out for a CCA. To add to that, you would not even be sure that you'll be using those things that you had bought. Sessions of ceiling staring always churn out questions like should I be contented climbing Bukit Timah or trekking along Macritchie, which are really puny compared to what I had set out to achieve. I don't know. Mum always say, don't worry, money can be earned back one, but after you had been through the rigors of earning money, you understand the magnitude of the amount of money that is lying in the bank at present. I guessed worked like shit is a major understatement to what I had been doing for the past few years. Wellzz.. let's see how it works out..

More thermodynamics beckons.