I should update my location right... I'm writing from Edinburgh now, where I moved into halls last Saturday. The city is amazing; the architecture is so pretty and everything's steeped in history! This is like going to Shaolin to study Chinese martial arts haha, with regards to the med school. I'll be taking lectures in the same theatre where Burke (of Burke and Hare fame) was dissected after his execution, and his selfsame skeleton is on display in the anatomy museum. Cool huh (:

On the bad side, I miss home like crazy. Almost everyone here is SO into pubbing and clubbing and drinking and that's just not my lifestyle even though I have gone along for the sake of blending in and making friends, but gah it feels somewhat like a personal betrayal? Talked to Grace on skype today; then closed the computer and felt like crap because I miss having a mugging companion; here people look at you like you're rabid if you so much as hint you actually like studying ):

The stars are so beautiful here, but I wish we were seeing the same constellations.

Hope everyone's been alright! I've been just so busy that I haven't had time to draw and stuff but hopefully... hopefully.

W-what?!

Don't you feel your heart shattering when you read this: [link]

I think it's time for plan B xD

Two weeks and a bit to Edinburgh.

Rabbit died last night. He was already looking pretty bad yesterday evening so I called the vet's emergency hotline and she said just bring in him today, and I stayed in the kitchen with him last night. Then about two or so in the morning I dozed off and when I woke up it was all over. Kind of melodramatic that I got woken up by the thunder huh. It's raining like crap outside (sympathetic background) and I can't actually believe that the first thing I'm doing is coming online to write about this but I had to get it out and my parents think I'm silly for getting so upset over it in the first place.

I HAVE MY MED TEXTBOOKS (: (: (:

Ok that just had to be announced. Because they're books, and they're big and glossy and smell good and are chock-full of interesting stuff. Still missing anatomy and pathology though because the bookstore didn't carry papa moore or the pathology books. Hi who has an NUS student card to lend me? (: Pretty please?

So today I went to bras brasah with Ally and Yeremy and we wandered the bookstores and bought books and talked. A lot. Yay. Ally and I experienced some epic backfire because Yeremy - as usual - paid for lunch right, and we're trying to pay him back, with the usual results. So we ended up in starbucks and Ally's like, ok let's send him to get drinks, then we stuff the money into his bag while he's away. Except we were just about to do the deed and he comes back and gets his bag. FAIL xD Yeremy is also officially the sweetest person ever because he helped me carry the bags of books all the way home gosh. At risk of being spotted by my parents. (thank goodness they weren't home when we got back!)

I miss Grace who is currently at medicamp ):

Finally, HI HONEYS HARRY POTTER IS COMING OUT WHO WANTS TO GO WATCH? (:

Edinburgh to-do list:
1. VISA omg help my middle name is procrastination
2. Student card thing
3. My aunt has a Date with me to get more jeans
4. STOCK UP ON STATIONERY (I want more RJ files xD and maybe some Raffles shirts)
5. Buy Anatomy and Pathology books
6. Build up alcohol tolerance
7. Build up lack sleep tolerance
8. REPRESS LAC DISCIPLINE OPERON.

Rabbit is somewhat better now (: And he really, really likes the gut motility medicine because I have to chase him and catch him to shove the syringe into his mouth to give him the antibiotic, but he's very cooperative when it comes to the syrup xD Like he'll just stand there and nibble at the end of the syringe and then ask me for more after he's had his dose.

Monday Grace Yeremy and I went to NUS to surprise Lihsia since her birthday was on Tuesday. Her colleagues and boss are amusing and hahaha Grace is a walking tribute to Murphy's Law!! (or we just had a very humorous cake) We'd brought a whole cheesecake (to curry fLavour with her colleagues xD) and were distributing the pieces in the lounge when Grace picks up a slice of cake on the knife and says, "If I drop it, do I get to eat it?"

... and then the cake promptly flopped over, wrong side up, onto the plate and got smashed. Yay.

Oh and Lihsia's Cambodian MIT (!) colleague is funny and then we made Lihsia give the last slice of cake to her stalker (:

After that we went to Raffles City and Shumin joined us for lunch and we walked all the way to Suntec looking for something for Leanne the resident small whale since she's headed to her new school in Australia next week. And while we were talking we came up with a quote: "When we were young we laughed about the moments we cried. Now we cry about the moments we laughed." which is rather fitting since a lot of our conversations now revolve around how things are changing so dramatically and how we're all going our separate ways, but I guess that's the price we pay for being such a diverse group huh. Not that I would trade my darlings for anything <3

My flight to London is booked too, now. I leave on 7 September. Two months and a week to go! ^^