Wherein I am Swamped with Nothing Much in Particular

I suppose I should update about the last few days of my life. Nothing really significant or life-changing has happened, but not to blog about it feels wrong, all the same. You see, as we grow older and we gain more experience in this fucked up world of ours, we also become more inundated against the currents in life that try to carry us away into one stream of thought to another. We become more resistant to the changes our environments brings us, in case my last sentence wasn't clear. And it takes more and more to shake your convictions and beliefs. And you just go "Oh, I've done that before, nothing that great about it. But let that continue too long, and you end up old befoer you know it. So in a bid to keep myself young and springy, I shall try to force some enthusiasm into the past events of my life. The week has been rather strange - skipping lectures mostly because of the weird movies I watch late into the nights and training with Nick are the strongest impressions I have this week(other than Impressario, of course). I haven't sweated so much voluntarily since I went into a steam room, and to match up volume for volume I'd have to stay in the steam room a whole day. And yet we are slow. As it is completing the short version of the race, "Bi-Lite"(who comes up with these names?) - 400m swim and 2.5km run takes me about an hour. I have visions of being the slowest competitor that day. Nick doesn't seem to care. Then again he seldom seems to care about anything, least of all doing well in an event he cares little for. Oh my, a circular definition. And then there's the iCare project. Sadly, the video I "produced" was canned due to indecency. Poor Woogle's(name changed to protect her identity, see previous post) exposed legs were too much for the sensitivities of the staff and in the end we just split the audio for the audience. Sad. Embarrassingly, the in-charge pointed me out to aforementioned audience that I'd done such a wonderful job with the video and as a shining example of volunteerism despite the scant pickings on the screen and speaker. I wanted to melt into my seat and disappear. Planned the last outing with PA5 with Fai and Ling(names abbreviated, they aren't really named like Oriental assasins), which is turning out to be a pain. I didn't know planning a party was so difficult. Usually I'm relegated to the post of standing in a corner making fun of how silly the games are. Turns out that almost all games are silly, much like soccer, and I've just been a big ol' meanie. We also went out to buy crowns and tiaras at the Concourse, where there's a bunch of shops specialising in selling party goods. And then today was Impressario, which I went to watch because Nana was performing. She won, which was great, seeing as this is the thing she wanted to do with her life. Many congratualtions, of course. So nice that she's getting validated for her efforts. Best overall composition plus best lyrics, a double victory for her(she wrote lyrics). Moving on now. The show turned out to be pretty good, production values were way beyond my expectations of something produced by students for free - I suppose this is the kind of thing you're proud to tell people you organized in University and will you kindly give me a job please. Was surprised that just about all the NTU students I knew were aware of the event and had actually gone to see previous incarnations, if not this one. Impressario's website is awful, though. See it here. Looks like someone's publicity team was somewhat understaffed(or underskilled). Been looking around for some cheap trips out of Singapore too. This Singapore-based website offers some nice deals for travel out. Bangkok seems to be an ideal tour, being quite safe and cheap to fly to. Perhaps sometime before I graduate, then. Have realized finances will be tight in the days to come. So that's about it for the week, I suppose. There's other stuff, of course, but those are even less inconsequential than this, and I actually typed about some of it but had to delete it due to severe insecurity about the pathetic state my posts have become. Better things to come - I promise.