Sunday, December 26, 2004

Christmas Catching Up

First of all, MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! :-D

Okay, I realize I haven't done this in... quite a while. The exams were... overwhelming, to say the very least. You've all see that cartoon where a character suddenly gets buried under a mountain of snow? That was me, at exam time - blinking madly, looking dazed, and listening to the chirping of imaginary songbirds as they circled my head. Yes, the exams weren't great - and it didn't exactly help that i had 3 exams in 3 days, which shot my concentration to hell for my last, and WORST, exam. On top of that, I managed to catch a cold! muchos argh!!!

Anyway, that's all over and done with, thankfully. I greeted my meagre 2-week holiday with the sort of joy usually reserved for wedding days and other such momentous occasions: "Oh, Joy, Rapture and Bliss! The freedom to watch television again at last, to catch up on my manga and anime reading!" I said as much to Steph, on our post-exam shopping trip! And then I realized - there are no new tv show episodes for the last 2 weeks of January, the Kakashi Gaiden on Naruto ain't all that great, and Bleach manga and anime episodes come few and far between. So yeah, I've spent a whole week doing absolutely nothing, and y'know what, it's been fun. :-D

The family and I went for midnight mass last night - un-fortunately, we thought it started at 11:30, and so got there nice and early at 10:45 - except it started at midnight. Me sitting with nothing to do for more than an hour? Baaad things happen. I mean, one can only critique the clothes of your fellow congregation members for so long, right? And before you start telling me I should be less critical of people's dress choice, remember - there is NO excuse for wearing a tan suit with a blue shirt and a red tie - none whatsoever. To make matters worse, the suit wasn't even well tailored! Anyway, one can only mentally pick apart outfits for so long; as time wore on, I began to contemplate hurling various pieces of jewellery at random people: "Wouldn't it be fun to nail that random guy with this chunky ring?" But then I remembered - my aim sucks! Attempts at recruiting family members into my zany throw-stuff-at-people scheme failed, so the good people of my parish remain uninjured and unharassed for now. :-D

Theoretical Question: How exactly do you go about breaking off a friendship? Or maybe an acquaintance? I mean, suppose you find that you and person X are completely incompatible - but this is someone whom you see almost every day, so you can't just go out of your way to avoid her/him - what are you supposed to do? How are you supposed to say, "My God, you're really f***ing annoying, and my life would be so much happier if I didn't have to put up with your idiotic bullshit!!" How do you say all that, except polite, like? All this is strictly theoretical, mind - this could be a useful piece of information to have, right? ;-)

Shameless Plug Time! Go read h3lios' blog, the link is on the right. h3lios is a friend of my esteemed brother, who spends way too much time annoying me on msn (juuust kidding! :-P) Now he's got a webpage, who knows what'll happen?

Off for now. Next update whenever. Or whenever i'm sufficiently bugged about updating. :-D

Take care all! Bye!

PS - Best wishes for a happy new year!


4 comments:

Le conteur said...

Tan suit? Blue shirt? Red tie? *Shudders and dies*

About your theoretical question. May I make a suggestion? Whatever you decide to do, TELL them. Don't leave 'em hanging, wondering what the hell hit them. I speak from experience. Go ahead and tell 'em that you think they're f***ing annoying if you must, they'd probably appreciate it more than just being ditched with explanation.

Me go now.

Love you!

Sharon said...

I'm sooo not kidding abt the un-coordinated outfit. Even my mum, who frowns on talking in church unless ABSOLUTELY necessary, commented on it :D

and the theoretical question is juuust that - theoretical. but i will keep you posted if it ever has practical applications. :D

Anonymous said...

you should've strung his uncoordinated ass up from the rafters with his red tie.

Sharon said...

SOUNDS like fun... but not quite in keeping with the spirit of the season, eh? :-P

Damn, now everytime I see a bad suit i'll be tempted to do what you suggested. :-D