and I said, What About Breakfast At Tiffany's

$8.56 on downloading Tetris to my phone- one of the best decisions I have made in a while. Watched Taken (nice pummeling of the bad guys) and 17 Again and both were surprisingly pretty good. Cute boys; not just Zac Efron, woohoo!

Okay I've nothing else to blog about so I'm just stealing this from the pandaswithpistols blog:
"So, we had the shoot today.
Broke an iron which I was completely unaware of,
Threw lots of clothes at each other (well Sophie threw clothes at me and I ducked)
Got entertained by Sophie's singing"

I dropped the iron. And my throws were aptly accompanied by a "hiyaaaa!!!"- I was attributed Ninja In Bra or something similar for that little outburst.

CATS

Caught CATS The Musical at The Esplanade on Friday evening because Rudy's dad got free tickets like 2 days AFTER he had already watched it, so that means the progeny and his girlfriend (that's me!) get them.

Program seemingly priced at a ridiculous $20 each, but we got 2 free programs with the free tickets anyway.

The musical was pretty good, the entire production involves quite a lot of interaction with the audience; from the stage decor extending to the seats to the dancers coming to prance among the aisles. During the interval the "cats" came out to the seats so people began to take pictures- was seriously so tempted to pet them.

Coke+Mars Bar= $7!

Sheesh like x00% profit for Esplanade.

No more pictures because we started arguing after that, nothing new there either.

I have not had a driving lesson in 2 weeks. My mom asked me to drive to Rudy's the other day, and I didn't know the differences between auto and manual (like the fact that taking your foot off the accelerator- known as engine braking in manual cars- DOES NOT make the car slow down in auto form) so I nearly crashed into the curb as I came out of the parking lot.

Not funny. I mean I did start laughing, but before that my mom was screaming "BRAKE! BRAKE!" at me.

Which reminds me, I nearly fell down the stairs at The Esplanade HAHAHA. I was too busy staring at a woman in a ludicrously short, shiny silver (gaudy) romper. She was neither young, nor lithe. But then again, I'm the idiot in a flouncy black dress and high heels who stumbled and just about regained her footing, so I'm not much better.

That will be all. Bye!

your every day

You know how at some moments you just sit and feel so shit with everything? When no tangible thoughts form, but slight waves of emotions leave you in that murky little place of yourself?

Hold on a sec.

fmylife.com:

"Today, I told my mom I am bulimic and have been for a few years and that I need help. She responded by saying 'Well that's clearly not working for you. Why don't you try anorexia?' FML."

HAHAHA. Nothing like irony or another person's misery to cheer you up.

Happy 1st Month

SO. 14th was our 1st month anniversary! Anyway for the curious, Rudy and I dated for a month before getting together, and I met him through mutual friends like Marco.

We had (or rather I had) planned to originally have a night picnic at the beach but L4D beckoned us instead so with Chloe and a very efficient stranger, we destroyed a total of 1675 zombies.

Eh my cards always scream effort kkkk.

Very wolverine-like love. Couldn't tell the difference.

On the left are lyrics from Vega 4's Life is Beautiful and a line from one of E. E. Cumming's poems on the right.

Haha the rest of the night was spent watching Family Guy, nothing new there.

SMU Interview

Here's about my SMU interview for the School of Social Science (SOSS) in the morning:

This is what I wore, I didn't go for blazers and what not cause I didn't want to go for TOO formal, and not like I have many blazers/slacks/etc to contend with anyway.

I dunno this is to give those still waiting for their interviews a rough idea (is it too informal?). I saw another girl in jeans anyway.

I'd heard that SMU interviews are conducted in groups, but turns out for SOSS it's individual. 2 professors to 1 student.

I'd say my interview was very average, there were some parts I was literally STUMPED, not saying anything because nothing was going through my brain other than "erm hi Sophie I think you're supposed to be talking now".

Kind of long so I'll split it into a few main questions I got asked:

1.

First question I got was "Why SMU and why Social Sciences?"

I happened to mention that although the school is pretty new, I like the direction it is taking and its progress and etc.

Prof 1: "The school is new?"

Sophie: "Erm yeah, SOSS is only 4 years old right?" (I'd read it in the faculty magazine in the waiting room)

Prof 1: "Oh, that. But new and old, it's relative isn't it?"

Sophie: "Erm..."

2.

Okay anyway in our applications we wrote a 300 word essay describing our strengths and etc in 3 areas (eg. CCA, CIP, leadership blah blah). So one tough question I got was:

"What can you tell me that isn't in your application that sets you apart from other students; such that we'd want to accept you?"

Like seriously... I mean obviously I'd already thrown in all I had (which isn't much) into my essay.

In the end I said that being mixed-blood and having lived overseas, I've been exposed to a plethora of other cultures and mindsets that allows me to have a broader perspective than most other students.

Which is okay I guess, except that I derailed and landed myself in a very sticky spot that saw me go blank for a few seconds hahaha.

3.

ZOMG ONE WEIRD QUESTION:

"Let's say I have a normal Boeing 777, how could I measure the amount of water I can fill the plane with?"

First I said I'd take the number of passengers, decide on an average weight and multiply the two together and that'd give me the bare minimum mass of water the plane could carry.

The same Prof 1 said okay but he wants to fill it to the BRIM, and that I can just take into account the cylindrical part of the plane (i.e. discount the cockpit and etc).

I was pretty much at a loss so since he kept going on about the cylindrical part, I finally said "Cylinder right? So area of cross section x length" all while moulding an imaginary plane in mid-air.

They laughed but I don't know if it's because they think I'm an idiot, or if I'm being funny. I don't know which I was being either. Oh well.

4.

In closing was "How badly do you want to get into SMU? And what 3 words would you use to describe yourself?". After which I got asked to elaborate why I attribute so-and-so word to myself. Sheesh what a nightmare.

Alright I hope that helps other aspiring SMU students prepare for their interviews. Of course I got asked a lot of other questions, like my stand on abortion (I am pro-choice) but these are the main ones I remember.

Feel so ughhh okay bye bye.