Connaught Hall's Christmas Dinner

I have completely stopped bring functional. I was telling myself that after my nap after going for a magic trick show at my friends room after dinner would be revision time, and now everything backfired. Somehow, it doesnt seem to bother me too much. I just dont feel like doing ANYTHING remotely related to work. But of course, im attending my lectures and labs and trying to be attentive and remember stuff. But everyone knows that it is not enough. I have to get my bum off my room, clean it up and go to the library to get work done ... in January, since my family is coming over in about 4 days time. I'm real excited about it (:

Christmas Dinner at Hall
My hall has a formal xmas dinner last night and it was unexpectedly not painful. Got to sit with a bunch of people, who were really nice, friendly and easy to talk to, though they proclaimed themselves to be normally antisocial. I dont blame them, im no fan of socialising myself (well in fact I dread it most of the time), it gets more more tired than mugging to be quite honest.
I went down for dinner initially, finally after a 2.5 week hiatus and holing up in my room eating food in front of youtube, ive decided that im going to make an effort to show some of my face and talk to some of the hall people. And I was greeted by a shocking sight of beautiful ladies in flowing gowns and the guys in suit. Absolutely horrifying! And I was there in faded jeans and slippers, looking quite lost and confused, till Preuk came and got me to get changed to formal wear.
Whoever would have guess that my hall was celebrating xmas 20days before the day itself! And so I contemplated ... and I did relent finally. Put on my (emergency) dress -thank goodness i brought one over- and my only pair of heels (4inches .. ouch). And tottered down. Found the only seat with the bunch of people I eventually had dinner with, and it was really nice. They were really easy to talk to. And, its been quite hard to find people like that here, cos most of the time, i seem to have to make a conscious effort to find topics to talk to the people about. But with this bunch, its different! Which is good (: Or maybe its just my once pathetic (and still rather sad) social skills are getting slightly better.
People were going around taking photos, but im camera shy (haha!), cos i barely bothered to dress up and was too embarrassed to go about. Plus i had really nice table mates to chat to, so that contributed to inertia to get about.
The wardenian team were waiters for the night, and the comm members cleaning up staff. Feeling quite sorry for them all ;) But i guess it isnt too bad for just 1 night in a year.


I've been terribly distracted by travel plans. And im planning to visit Erns in Japan, and making a short trip to korea during then and then on to melbourne and back to singapore during the summer hols. The whole trip (hopefully) not costing more than 2k (sing dollars of course) for airfares, which is actually quite probable. I'm excited just thinking about it, cos i absolutely love korea and i think its gonna be loads of fun visiting Erns (and seeing Japan, the manga land!) and Huien and possibly the rest of the aussie peeps (:

If only life was a holiday ;)
WAIT.
I take that back, it just means that we wont have breaks at all, right?