That is a picture of two daddy long legs having sex on my bolster last night, circa 2:30 am. I know they were copulating because one kept bouncing up and down in a pumping motion. I find it mildly amusing that there are other creatures getting more action than I am on my own bed.

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Based on the summaries given by Lifestyle today (yes I know that's a terrible source of obtaining literature but it's just a summary), I can't wait to get my hands on these Booker nominees:

A Fraction of the Whole - Steve Toltz
The Secret Scripture - Steven Barry
The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga

The one by Ghosh also looks really good. Also this is a very bad time to be lusting over books in the middle of prelims with IB looming in the very near distance. That and I have like 10 books - classics and contemporary fiction - awaiting me in my aunt's house in America.

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Friday had very weird papers.

First off there was Math - which was suspiciously easy. This meant that I kept second guessing every question ("no no can't be, this must be a trap!") which made me take me take more time. This also means that Paper 2 will be really hard in order to compensate. Or something.

Then in the interim while waiting for Hist, I was in the library with Johannes, Cheam, Eliel and Andrew. Hidden in the back of the library and sitting on the floor, I kept getting distracted by the lot of them -____________- Finally just as things quietened down and I started concentrating, Johannes popped out behind a corner and said a dodgy word which he deserves a smack for and throughly scared me. I reacted by (as recounted by him) first screaming, then punching him, then falling over in shock. I left the library feeling like nothing had entered my head at all.

Hist Paper 1 was weird because of the comparision question. A lot of the things were very implicit and thus hard to dig out, so I ended up skipping the question and doing the others first before returning. Hist Paper 2 was however, weirdest of all. This was because of the question on wars. Question 1 asked about guerilla warfare, question2 asked about limited warfare and question 3 was on the world wars - but was on some minor bit. Faced with a mind that had barely consolidated anything beyond the Chinese civil war and the world wars, I ended up doing the 3rd question - which was on women.

The nature of the question was so obscure that I could barely remember any factors. Thus armed with bits of information gleaned from wiki circa 2006, I named dropped Emmeline Pankhurst, then I recalled those war movies where there were women in the SS who worked in concentration camps (and also a dodgy porn movie along the same lines) and finally Horrible Histories (thank you Terry Deary) where I talked about women in the SOE during WWII. It was a very odd experience trying to combine all of them together into one coherent argument, which I still think is better than my Single Party State essay where I mucked up the structure.

After the paper I went about with Jess Mallek and Chaya to try and find the Year director, but he was missing. In the end we stayed till J. Ho came and she spoke to Mallek about her application and the History exam in general. Then we went to the SAC to eat and Lex joined us.

When all of us had finished eating, the rest of them went back and I went to join Ryan, Steph, Daryl, Gen and Arj. In the mood for some bumming after a killer day, the lot of us sans Ryan went to this ice cream place in Sunset Way (when Chun Wui brought a few of us last time) and we talked about rubbish (ohohoho RURU!) and ate sweetened cold cream. I had tiramisu - an odd choice considering that I've never eaten real tiramisu before. But it was overall an enjoyable outing.

In the evening I went to my grandma's place to celebrate the mooncake festival. We walked to Botanic Gardens with lanterns and there I took quite a few pictures which I like enough (and could have been better if I had an SLR!) and uploaded on flickr. Then we went home and I bummed more :x a bad thing for someone who still has exams.

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Suat is the sexiest and best to-be doctor known to mankind. She also now has the right to claim my 3rd child after Daryl claims the first 2. Thank you and have a good weekend.