It is time.

Today marks the last day of fun and games. Because the finals are coming... in 5 weeks' time (for most people)!

5 weeks = 35 days

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But I know I have to do this, right? Hmm. I should start planning what I have to study! Let's just call it the '5 week scheme'. Hahaha. Pray that I will be able to finish studying everything I need to study!! Creepy exams..

Me studying.. realll hard. haha

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I sound like someone who sings Bass in the choir. My throat is sore and irritated.

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Janice and I came up with lame quotes everytime, and our quote of the week is... 'Dig my ears!' Which is supposed to sound like 'Kiss my a**'. Lame to some of you guys out there but too funny for the 2 of us. We were laughing like hyenas in Golden Harvest. A friend of mine was working there that day and she was saying, 'you 2 ah, so noisy! The whole restaurant can hear you!' Haha. Oops. Drunk by... Bubble tea? ROFL. Luckily there weren't too many people in the restaurant, but I think the customers on the table next to ours thought we were nuts.

I don't know why, but the 2 of us have always been like that since forever! I do accept the differences in us during the process of growing up, but we never failed to make each other happy. She laughs at everything I say, and I'm always comforted by her whenever I feel down (even though she says she isn't a good counsellor). No Jan, you're A counsellor, and a good one. (: Thank you Lord for my sister.Neoprint of us when we were muchhh younger. Lol.

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And it has been decided! Janice and I are going to Sydney after our exams! Yahoo! Something we have been looking forward to since the start of the year! My cousin Tuck, I mean, Teck Guan, may be meeting us there. Pray that he will get a seat on the day we are leaving Sydney! Students go home around that time of the year, so it is really hard to change flights too. I really hope he can stay and bring us around, or else the 2 of us will be shopping only. Haha. My cousin Wei (aka Jac) may also be joining us! This is SO exciting!! Wei went to Japan with us just a year ago! We had uber fun! Another cousin trip for us yet again... Teehee. Not sure if Ning can join us. She's busy flying around in SQ. Woohoo. Go Ning! (: My cousins are so precious to me. Just because they rock my world. :P

Cousins from my mum's side. WE ROCK!

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Koala, Koalie and lil'mouse

Ben and I celebrated our 2.5 year anniversary just yesterday. (: Didn't take any photos because we forgot that we had a camera. But we will remember this day, right? Haha. We had dinner at Huntman Steakhouse and it was awesome! Caught Lady In The Water at Hoyts too. Well, the show is okay, but a tad too fairytale-ish. The story is good for me and all kids below 12. A movie that will make you feel good because it has a good ending, but not a kind of movie which makes you go WOW! after its screening. So, there you go. A review of a movie I watched. Haha.

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main characters of the show, Gong

Am watching a drama titled Gong (pronounced as 'goong' in Korean) with the DT gang. For the sake of Ben and David who belong to the SD gang, we spontaneously decided not to leak out what DT stands for. Hahaha. We have 3 members in this gang, and they are Janice, Josephine and I. Tell you what DT stands for after both guys guessed it right. (:

DT gang. Whaha.

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I CAN'T WAIT TO GO TO SYDNEY AND BACK TO SINGAPORE!!! I miss my friends.

New profile pic!

I was bored. So here's a new profile pic! Whaha. Retroooo.

Steve Irwin? Who?

Was chatting on MSN with Meiyi last night when I noticed her nick:

|melyl| : Rest in Peace, Steve Irwin

So I asked her who Steve Irwin was. She told me he was a zoologist from Australia who was stung by a stingray and died.

I haven't been watching too much of Animal Planet after moving to New Zealand, so I didn't think much of who Steve Irwin is. Besides, I thought being an animal lover she is, Mei Yi would know more zoologists than I do.

However, when I went into AsiaOne to read some news reports this morning, I realised who Steve Irwin was.

Steve Irwin with his wife, Terri

I was gutted. I was speechless. I never thought that Steve Irwin was the all famous Crocodile Hunter. I never knew that Steve Irwin was the crazy guy who loved crocodiles. I never knew that Steve Irwin was the man who had his family with him while he 'hunts'.

I never knew that Steve Irwin was the zoologist who died. Until today.

When Janice (my sis) and I were still in Singapore, we would occasionally switch to Animal Planet when the other channels got too boring. We would be watching Steve Irwin's show about 7 out of 10 times everytime we switch to that channel. Nevertheless, I can say that we love watching the show. We just love commenting how crazy he was. When we say crazy, we don't mean mentally unstable, need to go to Woodbridge, but more like HE'S GONE OUT OF HIS MIND!!! ISN'T HE AFRAID THAT THE CROCS WOULD JUST GOBBLE HIM UP?

We would be shrieking and covering our eyes at times as Steve Irwin 'plays' with the wild animals. To us, especially Janice, he was a REAL man. A man with a lion heart. Or should we say a crocodile heart. Don't even go there, Jess. -.-

I doubt Janice knows that her croc idol died in a freak accident, but I guess I would tell her when she comes back home in about an hours' time. All I can say is, life is vulnerable. Just one sting, and Steve Irwin lost his life.

But is all lost? Is this all? What happens after we die? Ponder about it.

HAPPY 19th BIRTHDAY BEN!!

HAPPY 19th BIRTHDAY AH BEN! May you continue to grow spiritually and continue to serve the Lord with a joyful heart. Enjoy this day and seriously, you're still so young!! 19 only... Haha. But ain't matter, cos' you're still more matured than me in any way. (: Love ya!

Poor Stephie...

To my dearest Stephie,

Get well soon dearie! It must be a pain getting chicken pox at this kinda time... Oh well.. -BIG HUGS FROM YOURS TRULY!- Tahan for one more week and it'll be gone... forever. (not true for some people but it may be for you!) Take this as your 'holidays' then...

Miss you loads babe! Can't wait for our next cam whoring session... Which is still quite some time away... But I don't mind waiting. (:

My Flat's Kitchen.

You know, the kitchen of my flat is such a happening place there I doubt there's any kitchen in Dunedin that's as interesting as mine.

My flat kitchen.

Looks like an ordinary kitchen to me. But you don't know what happens in this little kitchen of ours. You can categorize the incidents that happen in there in 2 groups: GOOD and BAD.

Let's just start with the BAD then.

Incident #1:

Here's the scenario. Sis and I cooking dinner. Flatmates #1 and #2 comes in to cook too. Stove has 4.. Erm.. Let's just call them heating elements. So we were using the bottom left hand one. Was cooking sweet and sour pork that night, so left a plate on the bottom right element which wasn't on. Flatmate #1 wants to use top right one, so switches it on. After a long while, I realised the kitchen towel used to soak up the oil for my pork pieces on the plate was turning black in the middle. I thought to myself, "Hmm, what's happening?" and immediately realised that THAT heating element was switched on!!!

I said, "Er, I think you guys switched on the wrong..." But before I could finish what I wanted to say, the plate FLEW towards us!!! IN BITS AND PIECES!!! Our pork pieces were flying too, and the kitchen towel, soaked with oil, landed on the stove and lighted up!!!! Flatmate #1, my sis and I just starred at the flame not knowing what to do, and flatmate #2 (male) quickly took the towel up and threw it into the sink. Thank God no one was hurt. Thank God Janice was wearing my furry pink slippers, or else her foot would've been cut by a huge piece of the plate.

The bad thing was: We lost some of our pork pieces, and my pink furry slippers died cos the piece of the plate was so hot it stuck to the slipper. SO I tried to pull it out and the pink cloth came off together with the piece of plate. ): Oh well... Too bad I didn't take any photos... I was too shocked I guess.

Hmm. I think I'll just leave the BAD incidents there, or else all of you will get a heart attack. Haha. But... Another bad thing that can happen in my kitchen is... BAD FOOD. Take a look at this:

Who bakes such fugly muffins?! Tell me tell me tell me. Do you even know those are MUFFINS?

It's a disaster, I tell you! I was pouring the mixture into each muffin cup and tried not to have too much in every single one of them, so I could avoid something like this to happen. But apparently it was still too much. So this happened. Crap.

Even after some 'decorations' done to those pathetic looking muffins, they still look... Pathetic. But hey, we shouldn't look at things on the outside, right? They actually taste quite good. YUM, hundreds and thousands chocolate muffins!

On the other hand, 1 GOOD thing happened in my kitchen today. HX and I baked cream puffs and it was a success!!! How excited can I get?

Puffs in the oven. The aroma... Indescribable.

Piping hot puffs straight from the oven! Time to stuff the custard into the puffs to make them cream puffs! -duh-

A whole plate of cream puffs for the flat. AHHH, going crazy.

A close up. Someone please lock me in my room.

Time for our customers to try them!

Looks like they truly enjoy them. YAY!

Presented to you by Jessica and Hooi Xian! Thanks for the cool recipe, HX! We should trymaking egg tarts soon! WOOHOO.

Our flat should just try to keep our kitchen clean and safe.

Random snapshots.

PHOTOS! :D

Ben gone way too Chinese during Evangelism classes. LOL. Oops, Josh and HX at the back!

Yum Cha session with Mum, Jan, Ben, Jo and David when Mum was here.

The hairband gang in the flat. How fun. Hurhurhur. Taken when Jon and Mum were here.

A picture of our cutey AJ gone bored and.. gay? Haha.

The 6 of us before our performance @ the Taiwanese dance competition. No, we weren't in the comp, we were just performing.

Yeah, I just felt kind of random tonight. Some photos just purely for the fun of it.

The tough test... is over!

Nadia and I looking sooo happy @ Wellington

I PASSED METABOLISM 2! :D:D:D And so did Nadie nad nad! Weee~!

The Sian-ed Night.

It's a quiet Wednesday night at 11:45pm, and here I am blogging.

Nadia and I acting lame with bubble tea cups in Wellington

Just got back from Central Library after an intense 3hour mugging with Nadie nad nad. We were studying for Metabolism 2. Hmm... I intended to study till about 1am before I plop onto my bed, but I'll see how things go.

I had a bout of break down just last night. I was flipping over pages of my thick Metabolism booklet, thinking of what I should study for the 2nd test while chatting with 2 of my friends. One of them was Thazin, and I was (as usual) complaining to her how sian I am because of this module. And she had to add that Eifer (minus poor me) was going out for dinner that night. At that moment my heart just... dropped. I was ultra sian. My 6 other pretty girls out without me, for the trillionth time. No, it isn't their fault that they left me out, but it's just because I am a 10hour flight away from them, 4 hours ahead of them.

Me at Carisbrook, Dunedin in 2004 (the 1st year in NZ)

I never regretted coming to New Zealand to study, because I managed to get into the course I desired and there's nothing more I can ask of. When I was 16, my mum asked me if I was ready to come to NZ to further my studies (right after my O's). I wasn't, and I rejected her offer, simply because I couldn't bear leave all my friends back in Singapore. So I proceeded to ACJC when I played my year through (what a retard). SO, eventually, I had to come to NZ after wasting a year of my life in JC (of course I haven't forgotten the good friends I met in AC. (:)

Me with Shuo and Joan Tayyy.

Friends. They are such a big part in my life that I even rejected my mum's offer to go to somewhere with wider range of courses I can choose from.

Now you see why I felt terrible after Thazin told me they were going out for dinner together. Eifer has never disappointed me in any way, and even though Thazin and I aren't in Singapore most of the time, they will always imagine the 2 of us there. Not until they start talking to space, duh. But, you get what I mean. Even without me, I always hope they will enjoy their time together and just have fun! One thing I always look forward to when I fly back to Singapore is to be Eifer-ed. LOL. Damn, I sound so lesbian out of a sudden. But you see, that's friendship!

6/7 of Eifer. I'll be back! (:

Eifer always. (:

Oh, back to my sian-ness that night. After Thazin told me they were going out for dinner, another friend of mine (a male) who is on my MSN list but hasn't spoken to me since decades ago messaged me out of the blue! What I thought was, "Wow, what made him come talk to me after such a long time?" I was quite happy cos it would be cool to have a friend whom I haven't spoken to for such a long time speaking to me again. So Mr. W started with a hey, so I hey-ed back. Okay, quite normal. Then, he abruptly asked "do you know this girl called Miss T? Can you intro her to me?"

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Guess what sian-ed I was. Gees! Fancy him being a 20 years old dude and using this kind of technique to know girls. Arh!! No matter what, the MAIN problem was, he made me the sian-est person on Earth at that point. 3 things made me so sian back to back.

So I went looking for the boyfriend and cried my heart out. I think my hormone levels were swinging up and down too. I doubt I'd react so strongly if it wasn't for this to be happening at the same time. So this morning, if those of you who saw me with swollen eyelids: Yes, I did cry, but not because I broke up with my boyfriend, thank you very much.

2 days to hols! No, let's say it's a day to my 2 weeks holidays!!!!!!!! :D:D:D But before that, Metabolism 2. bsssh.

Busiest Weekend of my LIFE

Fridayyy. (: I don't know why this word just sounds so.. pleasant. Haha.

Am slacking in Med Library for lunch time when the rest of them comes. This week's been busybusybusy.

• Had to hand in my Genetics report on Thursday. I rushed like crazy on Monday. Ben and Thazin proof read my report. Thanks guys! :D

• While Thazin was proof reading my report, we were talking via MSN phone and coincidentally, NDP (it was National Day!) was on TV. So she switched the TV on super loud so I could have a teeny bit of the National Day spirit. I can see that Thazin's one PATRIOTIC chic cos' she was singing the National anthem and saying the National pledge. Lol. Anyhow, I had fun chatting/listening to her sing for 2 whole hours. We need more of these sessions! For the rest of Eifer, we can conference in future! Maybe via MSN phone or even Skype! Go download!!

• Steamboat session with Janice and Michhh. Thanks for the company, Mich! Sorry for leaving so early though.. You know why lah.. Hahaha. Would love to have another girlie session with you again! (:

• Metabolism 1 computer test was crazzzzzy. I managed to pass by 1%. THANK GOD.

The weekend for me is gonna be even crazier! I've got choir practice, evangelism class, SingHealth seminar, National Day potluck session, Elim Church's Outreach Nite and 2 of my friends' birthdays (plus church service which isn't counted cos' it's been a routine.) ALL SQUASHED IN A WEEKEND. I'm so stressed out because I have 2 tests and 2 presentations coming up this week! -takes a deep breath in-

Looks like I need to sleep for less than 8 hours every night to study. ): I need at least 7 hours of sleep every night, or else no one can see my eyes, because my dark circles and eye bags will combine powers and make my eyes super small. -.- Now that's a life of a med student. zzz.

Updates!

Mooloo. (: Hope all of you are doing fine... Seems like life's kinda busy right now for yours truly here, but I had an urge to update my blog cos my lil' sis did so... Speaking of who influences who.. Haha. Anyhow,

Updates!

1) I've got loads of assignments piling up now. ):

2) I received Qi's letter today!!!!

3) I sms-ed Nien today cos' I miss her.

4) I'm broke. And so is Janice. LOL.

5) I'm stuck with my report on Charcot-Marie Tooth Syndrome. Help!

6) Dance on International Week sucked for me. And for some of the others too.My hair was happily flying everywhere and some got stuck onto my lipstick. MAN.

7) My major headache finally gave up trying to kill me and let me off this morning.

8) I caught the common cold (=RHINITIS!!!)

9) I love bible study!

10) Yes Thazin, I'll join your mugger club. Can I get a high post? Pretty please?

11) According to my diet analysis, the % of Total Energy Intake from fats is way too high for me, but at the same time, I'm deficient in iron, calcium and dietary fibre. Hur hur hur. Time to get healthy, Jess.

12) Final Year Examinations is scaring the sh*t outta me.

13) I miss hanging out with Eifer.

Alrightey, TIME FOR ME TO JUMP INTO BED!

Taking a hiatus

No updates recently, because I'm super duper uber busy!!!

Sorry but I think this blog's gonna be deserted for a short while... Not making funny excuses this time, but I REALLY gotta study hard this semester, or else I'll do super badly in finals. ):

If I DO have time, I'll definitely pop by and write something down...


In the meantime, I'm mugging.

I love this weather!

Hmm.

-Sits on a fence-

Yeah. Photos taken in Wellington aren't here yet, I'm also waiting for them! -hint hint to Nadie Nad Nad- Hahaha.

Okay okay. Let's talk about something else.

Weather's been aweeesome in Dunedin! Sunny like it should be! It's winter and I still feel the chills, but the sunshine just makes everyone's day (except for my mother if she's here)! Whaha.

I was watching C4 channel on the telly a few days back, and there was a programme on gay singers and bands. And YMCA MTV was played! Hahaha. I was laughing my butt off while watching it. It must be more than 20 years old!! No discrimination against gay people though. They're just hilarious.

Village People, the band who sang Y.M.C.A

Leopard? Or not?

I think, I'm now slightly inclined to the saying 'a leopard never changes its spots'.

Yes, a person can change when he/she wants to. If the person is not serious in changing, he/she reveals his true self again.

Recently I'm just really really disappointed with a certain person. Going back to her old environment reverts her old personality. I don't know if her nick means this way, but it's just sad to even read it. And yes, she probably thinks it is MY fault that she is feeling sick about NOT sinning.

I am indeed very happy to know that many of us have got to know about God. It is a blessing to even hear anything about him. Of course, anything good.

Speaking of this certain person, I pray that she will think hard on what she has been doing, if she thinks it is good for herself. Even if we're not talking about religions here, she should well know that some actions she make see responsibilities coming her way.

I may sound like a mum to her, I know that to her, I can be like an eagle circling a deer who is about to be eaten. But I know that it is for her own good, and not restricting her from doing what she likes. Even though I'm disappointed in her, I know I still love her.

I feel all better typing all of these out. I struggle inside me if I don't talk about this with anyone. What a way to start the 1st day of school.

I have confidence that one day I will believe that everyone CAN change.

Windyyy!

A picture of windy Wellington. Not taken by me. Found it online. (:

Cold and windy in Wellington right now. It's been this way for almost 3 days... Getting blown away ain't fun!!!

How I wish I were back in Dunedin, in my flat along Great King, in my room number 4, snuggled in my bed wrapped in the pretty pink polar fleece blankie I got for my birthday (thanks Hooi Xian, Josh, Kar Wai and Larence!), drinking Milo... AWWWWWWWWW!!!!!! Gees. I'm daydreaming so early in the day. Whaha.

ECC has been great. Visited different places, oragnisations, support groups, home visits etc. I think I have really learnt so much from this trip. Tomorrow's the last day! Whoopeee!

Wellington itself is wonderful. Big, windy (yeah), chilly city right now. Mmhmm, talked about it earlier in the post but I shall emphasise how cold it is. I'm wrapped up with scarf, gloves, beanie, thick jacket with almost 3 layers of clothes underneath. Oh gosh. I sound so... RICE DUMPLING (=ba4 zhang3). LOL. Anyway! I just had ba zhang this morning for breakfast! Whaha. All thanks for ZW's dad and uncle. Oh, and for the first time in history, I had DURIAN in NZ!! Freshhh!!! OH MANNN. It was all gooood. :P Okay, now I sound like a glutton, but yeah I think I am abit aye? LOL. In a few hours time, I'd be listening to people from the Overeaters Anonymous. I reckon I should just join the group. Be a part of them aye? OK, that is so lame Jess.

I'd be back in Dunedin on the evening of the 8th and start school on 10th!!!!!! ): CAL tests not studied YET. Good thing is I enjoyed every single day of the holidays. Whheeeee. Blogging soon, with more photos! Take care all of you, and all those in NZ, KEEP WARM!!

Brighton Beach - Christchurch

Absolutely beautiful view.

Walking along the beach with Ben was fun and memorable.

A photo for you guys. Sneak preview of Brighton Beach. Taken by yours truly. (:

Back from Christchurch!

Yes, I'm sooooooo tired. And I have to fly to Wellington on Sunday, and I have to study for my computer tests, and everything!!!!

Photos coming up after my mum sends them to me.

I'm so glad I made this trip up to CCH. So fun, and everyone was there!! :D

Will blog soon! (:

AFTER EXAMS

Mooloo mooloo. Ok, great. Now that my exams are over and done with, I can finally surf the net in peace and blog about anything in the world, with no time restriction and telling myself 'oh man i need to study' and questioning myself 'why am i surfing the net?'

Yeah, it's good and all. BUT (yeah, there is always a but that spoils the day) exams didn't go all too well. I wasn't fully prepared, I was freaking out, the paper was tough. Period. Needless to say more.

All's done and gone. So I should just forget about it and concentrate on my other 3 computer tests coming up next semester. But in the meantime........

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IT'S THE HOLIDAYS!!!! :D:D:D:D:D:DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

Going shopping plus lunch with naddie nad nad after this. We really need this break, the two of us. Try to get over how bad exams went. Haha. Next week I'll be heading up to Christchurch and Mt Hutt with my family! Gonna ski like mad (hmm, should I snow board or ski? snow boarding cause me to fall too many times. but snow boarding is uber cool!) and gonna shop like how girls should shop. Yippy. (:

Some people I need to thank:

Ben: Despiteall my tantrums, we survived. WHAHAHA.

Eifer: Thanks for all the support you've given me, asking me to gambate all the way. Love you guys loads. (:

Nadia: Love you to bits! You've been through all my highs and lows. Thanks for the last minute mugging with me! =P

Mummy: Thanks for all the yummy food you cook (YES MY MUM CAN COOK!!!!!), the smelly dirty clothes of mine that you washed, the eeky erky dirty flat you clean, encouraging me all the way not to give up. Oh, and congrats for passing your NZ full license driving test! So proud of you! hehe.

Janice: Thanks for just being there for me. You're a great sister. (:

Still many to thank, but I doubt they'd read this, so that list'll do. Okay I need some retail therapy now! :D Thank the Lord for the WONDERFUL weather today - the start of my winter holidays! Winter wonderland, here I come! -skips away-

P.S about the previous post, because of my wols internet, I couldn't even post my entry. Will do that soon!

wols internet.

This page took sucha long time to load!!! The same amount of time as me reading finish a set of notes. Our 20Gb usage has been used up, so we're now surfing at 64kbps, which, when divided by 4, becomes 16kbps PER person. So... yeah yeah, laugh at my wols internet. (if you don't know what wols is, you sure are wols. haha. just kidding. it's just 'slow' spelt backwards. okok, i'm the lame one) Someone's been downloading so much! This is my first time touching my lovely laptop since a week ago!

So. I am, or rather, was reading my Blood module notes(which are driving me nuts cos' I'm nowhere close to finishing). I'm. Screwed. How to finish studyingggg... ): And I don't know why students from other courses think that we med students don't have mid year exam. We do!!!! But yes, it isn't counted in finals, which is a BAD thing, at least for me. And if we fail this mid year exam, we have to see the DEAN and get TUTORIALS and sit the exam AGAIN. So I still have to study for the exams.

Exam bluessss. I thought I was going to get a breakdown soon (so I don't have to sit the exam), but no, God wants me to study like everyone else! THIS IS AN OBSTACLE I MUST OVERCOME! Come to think of it, exams do take up so much of our time. We have exams and tests so often. Try counting how many tests and exams you've taken. I'm sure it's more than 100 (if you're as old as me. yes, i'm 20 this year). EH, 听写 and Spelling tests are counted, okay!!! So if we have spelling and 听写 almost every week back in primary school, that makes it 2 tests a week. Let's say we have X weeks of 听写 and spelling. Okay, I realised that I can't be bothered to count exactly how many tests I've sat, but you know what I'm talking about. BUT THE POINT IS, EXAMS ARE DREADFUL. THEY MAKE MY LIFE MISERABLE. Sigh. I still have to study.... Rat race on Tuesday! Need to go to the Anatomy Museum tomorrow morning to look at those models and try to spot what questions are coming out. Mid year exam on Thursday, which consists of 2 bloody long modules - Blood and MSK. I'm screwedddd.

Blabbers complaints grumbling sighing moaning shrieking crying snoring are sounds that can be made by me during exam periods. Call me human. Oh wait. Strike snoring out. I don't snore. unless I'm really superbly extremely ridiculously tired. Period.

EEEEEEEKS!

EXAMS EXAMS EXAMSSSSSSSSSS!!! My rat race and mid year exam is 2 weeks awayyyy! And I haven't even started studying for themmm. ):