My whole body's been in pain since my gym session on Monday and GOSH I AM SUCH AN UNFIT PERSON. My thighs and gluts are extremely sore, and so are my chest and shoulder muscles. My younger brother's advice is to "QUIT WHINING AND DO MORE" hahahahahaah
I've been so happily steeped in post-exam activities that I can't even remember the stress and fatigue I felt during the revision times. But thinking on it, my first exam was on the 23rd of November, the second on the 26th, and the last on the 5th of December, so I really had a lot of time in between them all to revise properly and to take things easily.
Revision was made much easier with the help and support from family and friends, and also little things like....... beer! And snacks. :3
My handwriting is atrocious. Has always been, and will never change. It tends to get really slanted and fat when I'm in a rush, but I kind of like it that way. Had meself some Hoegaarden to relax.
When I told Yihan about good grades received, I told him he could call me
doctor from now on, and this photo was what he replied me with "You mean like this?"
HAHAHAHAHA dafuq. But it's cool, I can handle that. The Doctor.
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My first exam went by speedily. I wouldn't say that it was my best work, because the question was phrased really weirdly and I'm not too sure if I'd interpreted it correctly, but the best thing is that IT'S OVER.
#ootd
Was supporting the Movember movement the only way I could!
Headed out for dinner at Sushi Tei at Thomson Plaza with my parents, and we had to wait because it was really crowded, so we headed to Starbucks for a bit. I decided to try my luck with the barista whether he knew how to make the butterbeer frappuccino, and he did! SCORE
It was yummy but not sweet enough for me? LOL. It tastes really light and frothy. I prefer the caramel frappuccino for my sugar fix.
We also shared a New York Cheesecake. Yes I look like this with specs and no makeup on.
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I ate so much of this snack during my revision period that I've actually pleaded with my mom to not buy it anymore......... I CAN'T HELP MYSELF IT'S SO ADDICTIVE! It's like having McDonald's seaweed shaker fries mix poured over potato chips.
One day, I was returning home from school when I saw these two ads. After a long day of revision I had just trudged along the MRT path and plopped my butt down on the bench. Honestly, THIS WASN'T WHAT I WANTED TO SEE. I was so tired. -_- Moving past the
blue is for boys, pink is for girls thing, I was miffed that they associated girls with cupcakes, perhaps steering thoughts toward the whole cupcakes, pretty desserts are the passion of girls. I mean, boys also like to eat cupcakes, why should girls be the only one associated with pretty desserts? Maybe I was thinking too much. But what really pissed me off was that
the boy in the blue ad was on his feet and PLAYING WITH A DOG, while the girl was IN A BABY SEAT being associated with simply eating. One's absolutely
active and has agency (in creating a mess in the living room), while the other is
passive and.. lame. I think I was sore because I'd like to have been playing with a dog and messing up a living room rather than just creating a mess with cupcake crumbs.
I uploaded this on FB saying "Gendered advertising at its best (worst)"
A few days later I received a text from Gang saying that the two Dulux ads weren't just about colour - he thought I'd just meant that the ads were gendered because of the colour schemes, but I told him about what I actually thought about when I'd seen them. And he said there were two other ads, two of which were of different colours, which weren't necessarily gendered, so I told him I'd keep a lookout for them.
I found them!
Okay, them both are orange and green, which aren't necessarily a colour for girls, nor a colour for a boy. But the thing is, they're both showing boys. Why the decision to put a 3 against 1 in the campaign? Why not a 2 to 2 ratio, have two boys and two girls? Also, these two boys are also ACTIVE: one's clad in an adventurer costume, and the linguistic message is that he's doing some form of learning; the other is in a soccer uniform and is also implied to be having fun, having the agency to do something. While I'm saying all these, I don't have the exact contextual knowledge nor the purpose behind such choices, so this may all be
thinking too much, but I
want to think too much about these kinds of things instead of just taking it for granted that a young boy is allowed to have agency for himself and have fun while a young girl is impaired in her actions, and only associated to eating cupcakes.
There's no way I can work in advertising when it works so much on stereotypes, right? *-*
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My second exam went by...... alright, I suppose. I left the exam hall early!
Wore a full yellow outfit in attempts to bring out the Asianness in me. HA. I love being in exam halls anyway. Though I brought my denim outerwear along, I didn't wear it in the hall at all, because I love being in cold places.
Bought butterbeer frappe for Bryan to try, and a Toffeenut frappe for myself as a reward for surviving stats! Heh
(:
HAVING BANGS IS SUCH A CHORE. O_O I never knew so much trimming had to be done - I get annoyed with the length after about 3 days, so I just snip snip snip.
I had leftover chili crab for lunch, along with a slice of toast, buttered. I NEVER KNEW TOASTED BREAD TASTES SO AMAZING. Been having a lot of buttered toast lately.
Went to Canopy with my parents for dinner one night. This is what we had for dessert, apple crumble! Based on my visit there, I'd definitely not return -- it's really expensive for one. We had a pumpkin soup, a carbonara, a lamb shank, a lychee mojito and the dessert. It cost more than $100! The pumpkin soup was rather tasteless, and the lamb shank unimpressive. The carbonara was okay, and the apple crumble was also just alright - the crumbly bits were wayy too toasted. I might go back to try their brunch menu though, because reviews on that have been okay.
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Went to school to revise one day with Wanchun and she bought me flowers! Thank you! (': So super touched. I really miss this girl a lot. I feel like all of us always just are so busy and such rare meetings make me feel really happy. Wanchun's always really sweet and caring in her own way, I can't describe it but though we don't talk that often, I know that we can still talk when we meet up, and that if I need company, she'll be there for me (':
Our study session wasn't really fruitful though, we spent most of it chatting away!! Haha
These are my favourite flowers by the way, they're gerberas. (:
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My final exam arrived and was over just like that!
After the exam, hung out with this bunch for a little bit. I'm so extremely glad to have these three persons in my life. The pains of this semester were definitely made much more bearable with the support and words from them three. (:
AIYA WE NEED TO HANG OUT MORE LA
Came home and felt a little lost and down. Some told me that the reason was due to my feeling a sense of loss from not having a purpose (revising for finals) and I was like SNORT thanks then I'd want to feel this sense of loss. But it was probably just because my period was coming!
Was very happy with the flick of my eyeliner that day, hahaha
Wearing Sin and Smog from Urban Decay's Ammo palette on my eyes, and Loreal's Intense Plum on my lips.
Aye, I'm really sorry for this disjointed and somewhat energy-lacking post of mine! Am terribly sleepy and feeling a little down because some lucky soul is off for a holiday and I'm left in tiny Singapore alone. But as y'all know, I've got my weeks packed with meeting people! (: I've decided to not work at all this semester. I'm determined to watch as many films as I humanly can, and read as many novels as well. I have to get down to doing a to-do list for some other stuff, but welllllllllllll let's say I'm procrastinating with all the Masterchef episodes I'm catching.
Let me leave you with some old school house. This is so dance-worthy!
Love,
Pamela
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