Tuesday, August 24, 2004
Sniff...Sniff...Sniff...ACKK!!
Quite an interesting day today, even though I was pretty tired. I have no idea why but I plod around in the afternoons feeling sleepy but when I go to sleep at night I sleep badly because I have all these strange dreams. Must be some kind of vicious cycle or something. Anyway, Prof Tambyah was very engaging and interesting. And Prof Chia Kee Seng is really really funny in a totally unsubtle kind of way. Normally I might be put off, but I was happy for something to relieve the drudgery of confusing confidence interval stuff.
And there was also much hoohah about something smelly. A friend (who shall not be named) found in his bag a pot of KFC coleslaw that had been left there for quite a long time, apparently not by himself. And due to the amount of time it had spent in the bag, there was some associated odour of food spoilage. Being rather mad about sniffing things, even foul-smelling things (don't ask), I kept trying to smell his bag but could smell nothing, thus I was pretty baffled by his complaints. Oh well I certainly would not want to carry the smell around with me all day, even if I cannot smell it.
Interestingly, the incident reminded me of a similar olfactory incident in RI. The thing was the library had brought in some new books of the fascinating scratch-and-sniff variety. (Haha now I am pretty tickled by the memory of scratch-and-sniff books..) Being in a boy's school, naturally we did not care much for mature behaviour among ourselves and were happily scratching-and-sniffing and making a lot of excited noise about the books. The most fascinating of the series was a book showcasing all kinds of foul smells, as produced by certain plants (Rafflesia ring a bell?) and rotting things.
So after much enthusiastic scratching-and-sniffing of the foul smells book, and accompanied ewwing and screwing of noses at the truly distasteful nature of the smells (now why would anyone want to read the book twice?), I found myself in a most regrettable situation where I had done so much happy scratching the foul odours were all clinging tenaciously to my finger. No amount of washing could completely get rid of the accumulated un-fragrant oils, and I had to put up with the disgusting mix of stenches on my finger for a day or two.
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FMA 45 is another stupendously good episode with more questions answered and startling plans revealed, especially regarding Dante - the female villian I hate more than Delphine. And it looks like more will be revealed next week by what Izumi says. But the thing with Hohenheim was pretty irritating. I mean, bring him into the picture, make me believe that he might actually do some good despite all his past actions, have him answer some very important questions, and remove him from the picture? What's with that? Argh and just when I was beginning to like him a little. He's so cool.
You never know though. With all the twists they have in the story, he might just return from beyond and kill Dante or something. But I think the probability of that happening is pretty low. Sigh I'm sad.
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Gah I have been using the computer very little these days. As I often complain to others, my brother hogs the computer from the time he comes home to the time he sleeps. And because I have no intention of having another argument with him and getting a few years chopped off my lifespan (I figure I would rather save the lifespan-chopping for unhealthy foods that I at least enjoy, unlike frustrating arguments that go nowhere), I just take the passive stance and try to look for other ways to spend my time.
I was thinking of writing a short story based on the seventh month. No it's not a ghost story. It's about a woman who worries about the loss of tradition from generation to generation as we become a more modernised and practical society. I think the concept is pretty good, but I have doubts about my writing ability. Sigh. If it works out I might post it somewhere here.
Avaris / 8/24/2004 09:17:00 PM
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