i am on a mission. to write the best essay ever, to get into yale. and i'll win a nobel prize by the time i'm 33, if only because everyone thinks i won't. eat your heart out.
computing be darned.

Something i got off the net while searching for pointers on writing my university application essay

GETTING OFF ON THE WRONG FOOT-- --IT'S HARD TO DO WORSE THAN THESE OPENING SENTENCES

1. Sure, lots of kids like to start fires, but how many of them have a propane torch, gallons of accelerants and a basket of dry rags . . .
2. One score minus three years ago, and nine months, my father and mother, deciding to form a more perfect union, had sex, and that's about how it all got started with me . . . . .

3. This is Shanda writing, one of the 25 personalities possessed by Ellen Kurtz, who is the nominal applicant for admission . . . .

4. among the many things that are the result of imperialism racism and kapitalism are standard punktuation grammar and spelling which all serve to put the entire human race into a sausage machine . . . .

5. Coach says . . . .

6. Of arms and of the woman and of Cindy Bindlemeyer and her college application essay, sing, O Muse . . . .

7. How's about I write page 342 of YOUR autobiography: "After flunking out of medical school, Kermit Dowling decides to pursue a career in college admissions . . . ."

8. Take me: Please, pretty please, pretty-pretty please, super-dooper pretty-pretty-pretty please . . . . .

i just requested for information from wellesley college and bryn mawr college. then i read their website, and guess what? i found out that they are women's colleges. :P
well buzzword: financialaid!
didn't do much the whole weekend, and it's back to school tomorrow. shucks.

hey, back to blogging. played warcraft today with the guys from my class, and i suck. like really suck. i'm not a strategist, but the mouse and computer was silly anyway, didn't go where i wanted it to go.
but yeah, really thankful to god for giving me a C for econs when i was quite sure i was going to get a D. hopefully my computing will turn out that way too :)
i'm at this point in life where i feel very relaxed, comfortable and i look forward to every day. it's so serene, but it's gotta stop soon. gotta start hitting the books for SAT II and the dreaded As.
well gotta go now. ciao.

today was a so-so day. it was so-so until school ended, then it was kinda fun. well i've got all my papers back except for econs and i'm prepared to get a BBDD. hope like mad i'll get a BBCC though, it'll look so much better.
so anyway, after school, lance, lynette and me went cycling at ECP and it was quite fun except everyone's butt ached after cycling for 15 minutes or so, and we had to stop at Bedok Jetty to revive our bums. so that's about all. i hate computing, especially madam seah. hmpf.

so two people think i should forgive him. well, it's not like i had a big grudge against him, i was just thinking it's such a waste of my time to be friends with someone who's not willing to be your friend.
so i spent $125 today just to send my first application to Columbia today. Hope they receive it. Pray I'll get in. Slept for 3 hours in the afternoon today. Don't know why I'm so tired. Quite excited about tomorrow's cycling/blading trip. Hmm, should I bring my bike to save money? Maybe I should.

didnt' really plan on typing anything today but then i read everyone's blog and everyone sounds angsty so i decided to calm everyone down.
oh come on, econs isn't the only thing in the world. as for me, i kinda made a pact with nardev yesterday not to talk about prelims anymore, so it's not part of my vocabulary, huh what's prelims?
anyway, there's this friend of mine who's really irritated me for the past month or so. it's not that he's irritating, it's just that he's really self centred, selfish, arrogant and takes his friends for granted. everytime i'm with him, he's always talking about him this and him that, and how he's done this and how odac and him are doing something....you just wanna scream at him and tell him that you don't care. and then when you feel down or you just have something to complain about, he doesn't give a hoot. and he's supposed to be a brother. but today at cell group, he shared like how he went back after prelims(he's a scholar too) and he found out that a close uncle had passed away during prelims and his mum had kept it from him so it wouldn't affect his exams. he said it made him realize that life is indeed short(cliche) and that he wanted to apologize to all his friends for taking them for granted, if ever, cause when he was growing up, he was taken for granted by his friends too and he just decided that he'd be the same way. interesting sob story, don't know whether to buy it. really i feel this tug in my heart to yeah forgive him but i don't know, i'm a petty sensitive guy. hmmm, dear aunt aggie, HELP!

so econs yesterday was bad. not bad, horrible. and econs s, don't get me started. to top it all off, the seat i was sitting on had the phrase 'seize the day' in huge bold letters on it. the only thing i wanted to seize was mr cook and wring his neck for never making sense. but besides that, i'm loads relieved that it's all over and the next big exam i have to take is two months away.
i watched so close yesterday, a chink movie, and it's probably the best chink movie i've watched this year. shuqi is so beautiful, and did i mention that karen mok and zhou wei share a kiss at the end? haha, sorry for letting the cat out of the bag.
i'm pretty busy with university applications now, have loads of essays to write and gotta hand loads of forms to mrs liew. she's gonna kill me. either that or she'll accidentally drop them in the swimming pool. i aslo have to look for another tutor to give me a report and i can't seem to think of who to give it to. i'm not particularly fond of any of the other tutors. mr teo barely knows me, mrs chan - well i did fail two out of three common tests this year, mr leong , after what happened to our class this year, i don't think he'll give anyone a good report.
so when you're really bored, do give me a call.

so i haven't studied much for the past week, since getting back to singapore, okay since maths, and i'm still not doing anything about it. i hope to pull what lance did for physics and maths, an all nighter. i really wanna get my ass to the US! that's what i'm feeling right now, jittery and anxious. i'm not making sense even.
i went for a cornell talk yesterday and found that cornell is so not for me. just like how lance is so not going to be a commando, or join the air force, or the infantry, or the navy......face it lance, you're doomed to the kitchens of hell!! haha.....well at least you got your chance to lace the curry with cyanide.