Then & Now

So I have a month's break, which is pretty great considering the past couple of weeks which were filled with work, work, work. And honestly, I'm quite scared of next semester. How. The heck. Am I gonna juggle World Issues, I&F, and Writer's Craft all at one go? And even with Moral Studies thrown in thanks to the dumb Malaysian government up there who put monkeys in the Education Dept? D:

God. Help. Me.

Really, I'm pretty terrified. It's gonna be hell. Writer's Craft is 100% coursework, which is great, but... heck. I'm gonna die. I never gave a second thought when I signed up for these subjects, because my mind was too focused at that time on my current academic struggles. *cough*MATH*cough*.

But! Anyways. I'm done with my complaining for now :D. I have four weeks, man. There's even a rumour(I wonderrrr who started it..) in the household about going for a break in Langkawi.

OMGLANGKAWI. *SOBBSSS* Please. Please please please. I've been dreaming Langkawi since I returned to the pool this morning. I was lazing away in the sun and randomly started dreaming of the beautiful beach and clear waters. And I was like, "I GOTTA GET BACK HOME." 

Yes, home. You got me. Langkawi is.. my second home. I wish.

Okay, now that I've managed to stave myself off the off-topic road, here's to some memories of an awesome first semester in CPU! :D

Omnomnomnom. Cake. :D

DISCUSSION!

Get ya game faces on.

Kidding XD. We were just messing about eating the cake, duh.

Stole this off Carley's Facebook. I didn't even know I was laughing. Lol.

Aaaaaand, now it's time to put those memories behind me. And look forward to making new ones, hopefully another awesome set which might see new friends.. new lecturers.. though I'm getting Ms Shelley again next sem :D. Hurrah! In the meantime, I should prolly make the best of my holidays.

Hrmm.. let's see..

Ah, I got one.

FIIIIREEEEE!

Ahahahah. Doesn't that flame look gorgeous? I always feel like some amateur magician when I put the lighted match to the soaked cover. Yes, that awesome feeling indeed.

Don't worry, I'm not playing with matches or experimenting with fire and ethanol or something. Though the liquid thing in there is alcohol, duh. Some spirit thing that comes from beetroot extract and has eucalyptus properties and smells like it too. Parents bought it to supposedly help me with my poor suffocating sinus and nose problems when the haze came a-calling. The first few nights kinda.. failed XD.

There's extremely specific, if not complicated, instructions regarding the lighting of the lamp, the capping of it and the re-filling of it. Mum sorta followed it through the first time, but then it was like, meh. Where's the eucalyptus scent?

Also, I didn't realize that I couldn't have the spinning fan switched on when the lamp was busy 'burning'. Apparently it blows away the effects or something. Sheesh. For something so pricey, it certainly comes with a lot of whims and fancies. Reminds me of some spoilt little rich girl, cause my lamp's red. Hah. There's a literary device for that.. ugh.. giving objects human qualities or something.. was it a metaphor? Auughh. There goes my English. I hate literary devices. I can't seem to remember them all anyways.

It works fine now though, and doesn't whine as much as it did. Whine as in, give me any 'not working' issues XD. It works beautifully, and makes my room some eucalyptus heaven for as long as I burn it. So far.. I've not really detected any changes in my sneezing, though I still sneezed several times on a few mornings. Dad is using me as a guinea pig; if it works well for me, he wants to go get another one for my brothers' room. In my opinion, the fragile lamp's gonna get toppled over and crashed by either the cat, Joel, or Kor before it's even managed to reach a few burnin' hours old, but hey, Dad says Joel needs sinus recovery too..

I don't know nothin' bout that XD. I just enjoy the scent and whatever 'medicinal benefits' the product promises. It's a holiday after all. Might as well enjoy it all.. while it lasts..

I know this was a random post. I don't really know what I'm doing, just felt like blogging some pictures I meant to have blogged waaaay earlier. Hah. 

And now, I must sleep.

Lights out.