금요일, 1월 23, 2004
faiza just reminded me of a joke that i didn't even remember making today. this happened sometime around x'mas time last term. please go read it. it'll make my life a lot happier.

it's official. the evil gay man, better known as egm in faiza's words, is lecturing us now for consti. it was this bad feeling in the pit of my stomach ever since the first day when the very first consti lecture (at 9am in the morn, no doubt) was cancelled because, i quote, "the guy's stuck in a train somewhere". now, who would cook up a cock and bull story that was thus daft? egm figured largely in my mind, and viola, when he stepped in yesterday, that was the end of that. i would say our worst fears were realised, but nah, that would be too harsh. anyway, he is quite a good lecturer, seeing that he takes up quite, interesting, shall we say subjects to highlight. (cue: the infamous clam plate orgy aka muller)

one hilarious thing did happen though. while the egm was rattling on about his escapades on the train from point a to point b, there came this guy from the back of the lecture, who put up his hand and uttered complete rubbish. i mean rubbish, meaning something that sounded like "whubblewhubblewhubblemmmrphahhh" not once, but twice. egm asked him to kindly repeat your question, and this guy hauls out a loudhailer to ask WHAT DOES LOCUS STANDI MEAN? well, that was liberating weren't it? not to mention that it elicited a barrel of laughs from the good law students in the lecture who were a) not asleep b) comatose or c) actually there to start with.

today the three of us (renu, faiza and myself) were sitting in the town square eating a chocolate bar (there goes one new year resolution down the tubes) and just people-watching in general. of particular interest were the 2 men who stood by the statue of neptune (at times also known as the statue of neptune with pigeon pooing in hand) preaching the gospel! for no apparent reason! well, i'm as much an advocate for christianity as the next good christian, but these 2 seemed to be going completely off the rails at this point. things like buddha can't save you, it's just an idol are not the things to say in order to get people to actually be persuaded by what you say. saying that christ is the son of the living god is all right, but going to point where you have to shoot below the belt and make digs at other religions is just going too far in my book. having good friends who are of different religions doesn't make them any less good people than us christians profess to be. in fact, if they were to convert to christianity, i would be very happy for them, but the way these 2 men were approaching the subject would probably just have brought them closer to getting a good punch in the face rather than any new believers.

ivan saw the three of us sitting on a bench in the chilly town square and he said that we looked like old grandmas having a wee chat in the village square. (how rude!) too bad though, our little rendezvous had to be adjourned because of the need to walk up to the geography department and partake of the boundless knowledge provided from the genius brain of the contract lecturer (of which we still don't know who he is). and to be totally random, i have burnt my tongue on the extremely hot fish that i had for lunch. should have gotten the kebab instead.

well, that's about it. and to my best-loved bro: enjoy cny! missing all of you and i'll talk to you soon! look out for my letter in the post as well! oh, and i sent an email to you guys too, so read that!

i'm typing too much. well, ta.