30 Sep - 04 Oct '08

Yea, I shouldn't be blogging right now, 'cause it's right smack in the middle of exams. But then again, this is the most unprepared exam period I've ever had, so it probably doesn't hurt to be more unprepared than I already am.

If you are screwed, it means, screwed. Screwing it further still gets you screwed by your parents. Either way, really, I'm just in no mood to study alright?

Tioman!
Fantabulous!

minus the fact that exams start 8 Oct and I wasn't anyway near completion for Math IA nor the beginning of revision.

Here's a pretty picture of Tioman.

& a gruesome picture of what you find outside your doorstep.

& it's a sea cucumber, which squirts its insides out if it's too stressed and somehow stains your hands red if you go round fiddling with them.

Here's what you get in your room,

A pretty annoying boulder. Not to mention one that sits sedentarily in front of the toilet which never fails to trip you over when you are groping around in the dark at night to find the toilet. But then again, it helps you find the toilet easier.

Day 1: Snorkelling! Melina Beach!

Pity couldn't see for nuts 'cause of my horrible eyesight. The only lasting impression I have is that of the sea urchins. Big black blobs with scary spikes.

Day 2: Trekking through the rainforest and mangrove! Did soil coring and measuring diameter of trees at breast height. Some other pretty wonky stuffs, but I enjoyed them all the same.

Day 3: Internal Assessment!

I spent two hours staring at

at

Wow. But it was the best IA anyway! 'Cause Bulgaria roots are cute and the fiddler crabs annoy me so by returning into their little holes and I need to start staring at them all over again till my eyes popped. It's probably the best place to stone 'cause I'll need to be really still so as not the startle those little thingies. Roar! But it's tonnes better than grinding carrots and a whole load of crap in the Bio lab.

Day 4: Pulau Tulai!

Reef Check was tardish. I couldn't see a single thingies for nuts and I had to scour for clownfishes, sea anemones and rabbitfishes. And it was like what? Pretty much more than five (?) metres deep with parrotfish looking like any other fishes in the world.

I guess it was just my spastic eyesight that makes everything look like one thing or another, but whatever. I had a freaking hard time with Tsao Hui trailing rabbitfishes and then when Rich found one for us, we lost it. Pun intended.

I wonder why rabbitfishes are named rabbitfishes when they are nowhere similar to rabbits, I wonder why parrotfishes are named that way too. Clownfishes do not behave like clowns in anyway, and I should just stop ranting about fishes, 'cause I feel tardish now. People just have an uncanny knack of naming animals, like a flying lemur neither flies nor is it a lemur in any way.

Pulau Tulai was pretty! And the fishes are friendly! They just swam like wham! into my face. Alright no, I swam right into their seaweed and then they were some cute little ones which started nibbling at my arm.

Bonfire at night!
Marshmallows!
And then Gabz and I sneaked into the rainforest at night to get to Melina Beach which was literally just outside our doorstep. Terribly dark and we were just surviving on two meagre torchlights. That took us probably 15-20 minutes to get to the beach just 30 seconds walk from our room. Brilliant. I wonder why we had to do that even though Carter and Hjorth had gone to bed. But night walk was fun! Pitch black with rocks and boulders in your way.

Got to the beach eventually and slept there.
But there was a thunderstorm at 2 am and then we were stranded.
Ta-dah! My Kafka was done for.

I swear I grew way fatter after Tioman!

Tsk.

:/

GWK: She has gone nuts from studying.
MWONG: No, she has been nuts from this morning. Look at her hair.

JOEY: Wow, thanks, Mr Wong.

has just made me feel a little less clever.

A little less is an understatement.

But I'll try to be more clever, and skim through Math paper like never before.

I hope.

The examination mood has just started to sink in.

Just.

Nebraska was fun.

Super sweet.

& the opportunity cost for going to Tioman is,

Math IA and examinations revision.

Which I terribly failed to do fulfil despite dragging tonnes of books across the Straits of Johor to an island of Pahang for revision,

at the expense of Kafka's, which soaked up probably 5 hours worth of rainwater during the thunderstorm after being carelessly dropped near the Turtle Hatchery.

But, Tioman was pretty.