So about growing up...

I've been thinking a lot about what makes a person 'grown up'. What characteristics would you have to possess to consitute being 'grown up'? Are there varying degrees of 'grown up-ness'?

My recent experiences have helped me to realise a few things that must mean that I'm on my way to becoming more 'grown up'...

• I have stopped buying girly mags like Cleo and Cosmopolitan simply because I'm totally over the silly relationship advice columns and airbrushed pictures that just make you feel like going out and buying a bucketload of cosmetic products. Instead, I bought Women's Health and I must say that it's one of my best buys thus far this year! I love the articles and the exercise advice and health columns and facts in it. So cool! :)
• I looked in the mirror the other day and thought to myself, "I can actually see someone a few years younger than me looking at me and thinking that I'm a grown up because I actually look grown up!!". Hehe. And to prove that point, I haven't been ID-ed at the bars and clubs that I've been to recently. Still trying to figure out whether I should feel flattered that I look 'mature' enough or offended that I look 'owld' :p
• I have a grown-up voice... (Hehe.)
• Someone whom I really admire and respect (but only to a certain extent!) once told me that part of growing up is learning to be patient - learning to wait for things and not rush them. I think I'm slowly getting used to waiting. And not trying to force things to happen before they're meant to. (Yay for me!!)
• I have this voice inside my head that helps me think things through better. Yes, it really is a voice, different to my normal 'head voice'. Yes, it exists and resides IN my head and not anywhere else. And NO (I know what you're thinking), I'm NOT schizophrenic! Maybe borderline... :p

Lawl.

So yeah. I may not be fully grown up yet, but I think I'm making good progress towards womanhood... Like a famous girl (now still kinda not a woman) once sang - "I'm not a girl, not yet a woman, all I need is time... Lalalalalaaa".

"When you're young everything feels like the end of the world. But it's not - it's just the beginning. You might have to meet a few more jerks, but one day you're gonna meet a boy who treats you the way you deserve to be treated - like the sun rises and sets with you."

AWWWWW!!!

That's from a quote my friend told me from the movie '17 Again'. Yeah, I know. Silly movies that have such wonderful (but slightly corny) phrases don't deserve this much attention. But a girl can hope!! :)

One day...

:p

Pilates or MacBook???

THIS

OR

THIS?

I'm supposed to be finishing my assignment now... But it can wait :p
For awhile at least.

I just got off the phone with Sher Reen and am very excited that the thought of taking pilates classes!! (Reading Women's Health kinda makes you want to do pilates and go jogging :p)

But I also want to save up my money that I'll be earning this semester for a new MacBook... My current laptop is slowly dying.

Howww???

I really want to do pilates....
(But then what about my MacBook???)

Boo-hoo.

Aw mannn! (Btw, a good friend told me to stop saying 'aw man' coz it makes me sounds like a dude... Say whaaat? :p) It's cowld outside!! COWLDDDD :(

I just want to stay in my bed the WHOLE day and sleep and have someone bring me food when I'm hungry and massage my feet when I get pins and needles... Any volunteers?

Maybe I should sleep a teeny bit more. It is after all, a Sunday. Meh. SUN-day. Where's the sun???

To make up for the 'lack of sun', I'm putting this picture here:

No, I changed my mind. I can't find a nice picture of the sun. Booo.

:p

What's on my playlist right now...

I've decided to go retro...

1. I Want To Know What Love Is - Tina Arena (originally by Foreigner)
2. Girls Just Wanna Have Fun - Cyndi Lauper
3. Love Is A Battlefield - Pat Benatar
4. Straight From The Heart - Bryan Adams
5. Islands In The Stream - Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers (I dunno how retro this one is...)

Just to name a few!!

I also have Metro Station's 'Shake It' on the same playlist... But it's not retro... Metro - close enough? :p

This Wonderful New World of Arts Subjects...

As you may or may not know, I got a job at uni this year as a 'note-taker'. Yup, I get paid by the uni to take notes for students with disabilities.

Right now, I've been assigned to 2 students - 1 is hearing impaired and another had a really bad shoulder injury (last year or something) and can't write for long periods. They are both Arts students...

And so about 7 weeks ago, I stepped into my very first Arts subject lecture in the whole history of my uni life. It was called... (wait for it)... Sexual Politics. Hehe. It's not as dodgy a subject as it sounds. Though some things they discuss are quite eye-opening for me. It's a subject about feminism - it looks at different types of feminism, the issues that feminist are fighting for and all that (feminism-y) jazz :p

A few things intrigued me from the moment I stepped into the class:

• the fact that the lecture hall was filled with girls (probably about 100 of them) and only had about 5 guys in it. What a huge contrast to my engineering lectures where 80% of the class consists of male students!
• the way the students were dressed... There were punk chicks, very trendy but butch girls, guys wearing scarves and super skinny jeans, people dressed in vintage clothes... all sorts of styles! Not the usual t-shirt, jumper and jeans you get in engineering lectures... (though I do try to mix my style up once in awhile :p).
• I dunno... Just the general vibe I got from being in an Arts subject lecture was different. I can't pinpoint what made it different. But I guess it was a combination of a lot of smaller factors (DUH!).
  

And another thing that I realised when I went for my note-taking assignment for the other student, for a subject called 'Science, Reality and Reason', was that these students have a totally different way of thinking compared to Engineering students! It was a much more abstract way of thinking... So weird!! But so exciting at the same time!! :)

Hehe. I'm happy because I've always wanted to do an Arts subject but my strict degree plan doesn't allow for many elective options. Now I'm finally getting a taste of them! Yay for me :)

What to say, what to say?

I'm going through another 'dry spell' with regards to what to post on this blog of mine... Well, to be honest it's more of a 'don't-feel-like-writing-anything' spell than an 'i-don't-know-what-to-write-about' spell. I have things that I could write about. Just can't bring myself to actually write about them.

One day... :)

But for now, I shall leave you with this picture:
(It's my latest desktop wallpaper :))

FMyLife :p

- Today, I tasted rainbow. By that, I mean a homeless man hit me in the face with a bag of Skittles for not giving him money. FML -

My friend, Priya, told me about this website called www.fmylife.com and so I decided to check it out. The validity of some of the stories are questionable. But some are obviously true and, like the one above, make you laugh out loud. So funny!! :p

If you haven't discovered it for your self already, you should go right noww! :)