Tuesday, July 05, 2005
David Beckham is staying at Shangri-La Hotel! I'm not a huge fan of his anymore, but the presence of a star footsteps away from my house makes me quite excited hee! And I think Ian Thorpe is in Singapore too? Gosh his hair is now black and he looks horrible! He's supporting New York, but I think it'd be either Paris or London who'll win. I just realized that if Paris wins, then the tennis matches will be played at Roland Garros (where the French Open is); if London wins, it'll be at Wimbledon; if New York wins, it'll be at Flushing Meadows (where the US Open is played). Not bad huh.. venues of 3 grand slam tournaments. Now let me think again.. Pittsburgh to New York is supposed to be a 10-hour train ride. Will I be able to go to New York to watch the US Open this year?
Anyway, I just did my Calculus Placement Test. I didn't do too badly, considering that I was doing it quite late at night. It's really irritating you know. The deadline for the test is 6th July and I just received info on it yesterday. Bleah.. I can't believe that it really takes 3 weeks to mail something from there to here! The deadline to submit the course registration forms is also 6th July. At least I can fax the forms over, but you register on a first-come-first-serve basis. How unfair! Luckily, I sort of know what courses I want to take. I just need to decide whether I want to take Physics or Chem for the first semester, and freshman seminar or the distribution course (taking courses outside your major; some of the courses look cool!) There are way too many choices for the distribution courses; was quite confused reading them just now. Oh well, I'll be taking 6 courses I think. Hopefully, I can get credits for at least 2 of them. But I just realized that even though I know what courses I want to take, I haven't really looked at the "finer details" yet (was too lazy to). Like for a few of the courses, the fall and spring courses are taught by diff profs, so I need to find out which profs are good. Then need to make sure my course is balanced, like not too many humans courses or something. I also haven't looked at the course schedule yet. Just downloaded it just now. Wow I really have a lot to do in one day huh? Just realized that I need to buy textbooks too. Oh gosh!
Hmm.. decided to buy the ipod mini in the end. The 6GB one. I was quite tempted to buy the 20GB one cos the price was not that much different. Plus now it's full-colored display (so can store photos inside). But I don't think I need so much space. Oh ya now if I buy a Powerbook, I can get ipod mini for free (new Apple promotion for students)! I was telling my mum about it, but she wasn't swayed at all! I think she's really against me getting Powerbook. I also don't know if I should be getting it. I think I'll most likely end up getting the Thinkpad.
I need to sleep now. I think it doesn't make much of difference that Wimbledon is over, does it? I still sleep late! And someone told me the dark rings around my eyes are quite prominent. Ugh my mum is gonna be here in 2 days. She's so gonna know I've been sleeping late la!
posted by vivien at 2:09 PM