Elisha

If I had a son I'd like to call him Elisha. After all, I would want my son to be as awesome as his namesake and smite silly people to death by bears. I think I've found my new favourite passage from the Bible.

23 Then he went up from there to Bethel; and as he was going up by the way, young lads came out from the city and mocked him and said to him, “Go up, you baldhead; go up, you baldhead!” 24 When he looked behind him and saw them, he cursed them in the name of the LORD. Then two female bears came out of the woods and tore up forty-two lads of their number. (from 2 Kings 2:23-25)

In other news, work as of late has been tiring and draining. That being said, I've finally passed/finished my GRE! I got 156/170 for Quantitative, 161/170 for Verbal and 5/6 for Analytical Writing. I am quite pleased with my results, especially since I can now skip re-taking the paper in December! Hooray for the little victories in life :)

Memories of Animals Past

These are three photos that I finally, FINALLY took out of my DSLR camera. They were sitting there, in digital nowhereland for months, and they're all from Korea hahaha. I went there in February, so they were sitting there for a good few months.

I like animals. Especially dogs. For some reason when I went to Japan I didn't take any pictures of dogs even though there were quite a few shibas around. I suppose it's mainly because they were being walked by their owners or it was too dark.

As for the last picture, it depicts instructions to patrons of a Cat Cafe that I visited in Hongdae, Seoul. 

GRR GREs

Sat for the GREs today, on Armistice Day of all days, and got my marks back on the spot because it's all computerised now. For Verbal Reasoning I scored 161 and for Quantitative Reasoning I scored 156. As far as I'm concerned I've exceeded my own expectations for both categories, and now I'm left wondering whether I should take the exam one more time >.<

Still, I couldn't help grinning like mad when I got the final results. It was such a relief to know that I had made it after freaking out over math so much. That and the possibility I could throw all the math I re-learned just for this exam back into the great black void where it belonged. That I could forget every damn thing I re-learned about exponents, reciprocals and square roots. Anyway after all, I'm not applying for a PhD. We'll see.

Still, praise be to that lovely benevolent being up there!

Jiak Kentang

Haven't been writing online a lot recently. Not much to write I think. Usual go to work, loaf about and struggle to sit still and study, ye gads. Last week I fell sick again with the flu and struggled with it as I worked through the week. That was a pain.

On Saturday I went out with Chong Wee and Daryl to attend Daryl's first public poetry reading for his first published work(s) at the Singapore Writer's Festival (congrats again Daryl!). Someone gave Daryl a potato. Maybe it's to suggest Daryl Jiak Kentang (was a potato eater - someone who's more White than Chinese)? Either way Chong Wee and I beautified the poor potato and then we all left it at a prominent spot to grin at everyone. Beauteous potato.