ohhhhhh KARMA!

Man, this week has been pretty malang (in the broadest sense of the word) for me and some of my highschool friends. This bad luck we attribute to karma for making fun of certain people continuously. (It's prolly not karma at all but we like to have a scapegoat for our chronic unluckiness in life and love. We're trying to rehabilitate ourselves and be better people (I swear!!) but we can't help it when they make it soooooo easy. It's an issue of will power - we just don't have enough and can't resist.

Anyway, the karma manifests in different ways for us - some hilarious, some oddly painful and some, downright depressing. lol. It's gotten to be an ongoing phenomena that messes with our lives so much that we've started keeping a weekly score. Whomever "suffers" the worst karma "wins." I think this week's collective total is:

Jon managed to sustain an injury a day. No seriously, he got hurt at least once a day....which is kinda funny cos he's such a wuss about it.

Timun got an infection (I have no idea where and I don't really want to know) and had to work overtime then had to go for some company treasure hunt at 6am in the morning. I'll throw in her working CNY too just cos that kind of suckyness carries over.

Our resident KPC (kay po/ busybody) experienced an allergic reaction after eating expired (!!) abalone. (Seriously, wtf expired abalone?!?!)  Then she caught a cold and fever.

I grated my knuckle (yes, just one) while making lemon cream then proceeded to slice that same finger on the lid of a can while making hummus. Both were bleeders that did not help my culinary endeavors meaning that it took me twice as long to make food and i had to starve for like 3 hours longer than I should have.Then today, I get a creepy fb message from a fairly creepy highschool acquaintance I just added (only cos my other highschool friends added him. shit. should have just left him hanging with the rest of the creepers on the friend request page. and no, that's not mean at all. if they're still in limbo, they can't re-request after you ignore the first one. hah! take that facebook!).

That totally fulfilled the weekly quota of "random creepy message/friending from random creepy guy." Yeah, I have a weekly quota. Because apparently, the only guys who are ballsy enough to inquire about my availability are the ones nobody wants! wtf. seriously, fml. i need to work on this single thing. Especially since I have managed to fall down that magical rabbit hole to end up in a state where it seems like wearing a shirt is optional and people like to randomly strip. In fact, I'm pretty sure you can judge the distance to the beach (or if you're on the right bus heading to the beach) by how much (or little) people are wearing.

Anyway, if I manage to contract tetanus then I win hands down because that would be pretty tragic. If not, then I think KPC deserves to win this week's round cos seriously, EXPIRED ABALONE. 'Nuff said.

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Just keep nodding, maybe they'll go away...

If I'm getting loads of unsolicited advice, does it mean I'm finally making friends amongst the seniors in the department?? I dunno if that's a good thing or not. lol. I guess it's more amusing than not.

I just had like three people tell me that I'm doing too much and that I should cut back. And all I really told them was how many classes I'm taking. They tell me I need to drop something but really, I'm five weeks into the semester and I don't think that it's an option. The only reason I'm taking the extra classes in the first place is cos the professors aren't gonna teach them again any time soon or at all. Do I really need the two extra classes? No. Will they be super useful for what I do? Hell yeah. So that's that. It's nice that they care but I wish they'd do it in less of a holier-than-thou way. Yeah, they're seniors in the department and they mean well but when they hand out the advice, some of them tend to make me feel like I'm that one special kid who eats paste and boogers in the back of the class and they need to edumacate me cos they know it's going to melt my brain or something. One of them was like "if your advisor were here she wouldn't let you do this". lol. What are we? 5? Seriously, I'm taking extra classes, not doing crack and smoking joints. I'm aware of my limits and I may be pushing them but then again I've done worse and I'll (theoretically) have a summer to recover.

Yeah, i guess my body is hinting at stress (carb and salt cravings!! although, that could totally mean something else...like a rare and tragic disease or whatever. eh.) but honestly, apart from the perpetual tiredness and bloody early starts, it feels great to be busy and doing things :)

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cravings

normally, cravings = pregnant......yeah, not happening any time soon.

according to google (yea, i googled it), carb and salt cravings = stress and exhaustion. who knew??


btw, Happy CNY!!! i was too tired/didn't have time to bake any CNY goodies in time for CNY but I'm determined to have my pineapple tarts and cornflake cookies soon. like this week. even if it means blowing off the 103 (yes, 103!! O.o) readings i've fallen behind on reading. that sense of accomplishment i felt for buying all the damn books and downloading/printing all the readings apparently doesn't extend to actually doing them. lol. it seems my slacker ways are still going strong. dang.

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