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The fun begins!

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:00:43 GMT

Hey guys,

Just a few (pretty bad) pictures taken on the first day of move in. A lot of them were taken discreetly or while walking, hence the horrible quality, but you get the general idea.

Woke up this morning to Clocky - he works! At about 8.30 am, US kids began moving in to Aycock. Lots of people running up and down hallways, heaving things up and down the stairs, lots of cars trying to find parking space... there were even a few U-Hauls. Didn't have time to say hi to anybody - went over to West Campus for the rest of international orientation.

International orientation today basically consisted of a few talks on Duke basketball, the tenting process, substance abuse, student health... after which we were released, free to go.

Took the bus back to East - I'm getting the hang of the bus system.. okay, not really - and picked up my DukeCard, my mailbox key, mailed off the stuff and then returned to the dorm to find that Anne's parents had been by to move some of her stuff in. The room is looking slightly more lived in now, but Anne won't be here till about 2.

I have no idea what's happening in between now and 4 pm. I think people are setting up bank accounts or heading to various malls to settle their phone things. There's also a Target trip at 2 pm, so I might go pick up a few things.

Talk soon!

Love,

Mel

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Thursday, June 25, 2009

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:31:42 GMT

At the end of last year I started a Tumblr as a little inspiration board for myself... just for pretty pictures and quotes and occasional conversationlets with friends. When I started thinking about moving my blog, I registered 2203.tumblr.com, but I think I'm just going to use my previous Tumblr at xxii.tumblr.com (cause I'm born on the 22nd, stupid).

Not moving properly yet... just a heads up.

xxii.tumblr.com

everybody's going to war

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:13:25 GMT

I've got a friend, he's a purebred killing machine
He said he's waited his whole damn life for this
I knew him well when he was seventeen
now he's a man who'll be dead by Christmas, and so
everybody's going to war
but we don't know what we're fighting for
Don't tell me it's a worthy cause
no cause could be so worthy.

if love is a drug, I guess we're all sober
if hope is a song, I guess it's all over
how to have faith when faith is a crime?
I don't want to die

if God's on our side, then God is a joker
asleep on the job, his children fall over
running out through the door and straight to the sky
I don't want to die

Thursday, June 25, 2009

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:49:01 GMT

I was reading Patrick Welsh's article in USAToday about how text messaging is apparently the bane of high school education and is producing a generation of intellectually delinquent students. Frankly, I found the article to be ridiculous, and was happy to see that most of the comments disagreed with his conclusion that "parents should disable the text messaging function of their kids' cellphones" and "a crackdown the first day of school in September will set the get-tough tone for the rest of the year."

Till I saw this comment by a user named "a-dizzle":

"Dear Patrick Welsh, I think that you are very 1 misinformed 2 you are making many false assumption and 3 a strongly opionated stupid old man who does not and will not ever understand why we like to text and the fact that while we text we are still learning. Because i know as you wrote this you said to your self when i was a kid i couldn't text well i would like to let you know that things have changed since 1492 when you were a kid ok?"

*facepalm*
*facepalm*
*facepalm*

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:22:12 GMT

Whenever I'm feeling like life is moving too fast, or that I'm actually growing up, or that I'd rather not deal with feelings at all, it's hard to make my "grown up" brain shut up.

UNTIL I LISTEN TO THIS SONG

LOCK EYES, FROM THE ACROSS THE ROOM

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:17:44 GMT

Wimbledon photos

Jude Law: You're blocking my view, peon

Also, if you need any more convincing that newsmaking has changed over the decades, check out NYT's 1/1/1941 front page - "Winston Churchill has a new hat"

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 01:55:45 GMT

Duke has various pre-orientation programmes (yeah, I really don't get the pre-orientation thing, it's like orientation for orientation) that start a couple of weeks before actual orientation does. I'm not going for any of them because I don't really want to leave Singapore that early, but one of them is called Project Waves where participants basically spend a week sailing, kayaking, surfing and doing other marine activities.

Today I ventured into their Facebook group.

The theme song for Project Waves '09 is "I'm On A Boat".

HELLLLLLLLLLLLL YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS this bodes well

gronlandic edit

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:33:27 GMT

the surrealists were just
nihilists with good imaginations
I am satisfied
hiding in our friend's apartment
only leaving once a day
to buy some groceries.
daylight, I'm so absent minded
nighttime, meeting new anxieties
so am I erasing myself?
hope I'm not erasing myself

I guess it would be nice to give my heart to a god
but which one, which one do I choose?
all the churches fill with losers, psycho or confused
I just want to hold the divine in mind
and forget all of the beauty's wasted

let's fall back to earth and do something pleasant

we fell back to earth like gravity's bitches
physics makes us all its bitches

I guess it would be nice to help in your escape
from patterns your parents designed
all the party people dancing for the indie star
but he's the worst faker by far
but in the set
I forget all of the beauty's wasted

I guess it would be nice
show me that things can be nice

you've got my back in the city
you've got my back, because I don't want to panic

Friday, June 19, 2009

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 05:28:36 GMT

I think it might be time to move this blog.

This makes me very sad. I've been blogging here since January 2003.

JANUARY 2003.

That's six and a half years.

But I've been putting up for Xanga's suckiness for way too long. The editor page randomly PMSes... it doesn't hook up to anything... the layout capabilities suck... you can't search your entries (which really blows when you have six and a half years' worth of them)... they plonk ads all over the place... it's generally awful and it's freakin' old.

I haven't decided yet, but I've gotten myself a spot at Tumblr just in case.

---------------------------------------------------------------
My first entry:

" 5 jan, 2003...
.time.12.48am
.music.none
.mood.tired
.talking to.no one (my msn dieded )

Heye... I only started an account on xanga because I was posting up a comment on Becca's blog, but I thought I might start a blog here, since I was considering that anyway. I think xanga's better than my old blog site, there's more stuff and the blogs look nicer. I can't use skins though cuz those are only for premium accounts .

Went out with Shumzi, Dweebie and Wryn today to watch Two Weeks Notice. Quite good quite good. I've seen better though. I like Sandra Bullock. I'm not too fond of Hugh Grant though, he always has this smug-annoying look about him. Wryn says he's good-looking. Ha ha.

Anyway, gotta make this short because I'm fallin asleep in front of the com, should go to bed soon. Still got a couple more things to fix up *yawn* Okay, I'm out. G'nite..."

Oh those tagboard days.

iawtc x 23758332

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:57:51 GMT

TIME - 22 Jun 2009
Inbox

"I recently renewed my subscription to a newsmagazine called TIME. Recently, however, I have been receiving weekly editions of the journal of the Obama Adoration Society. When will deliveries of my newsmagazine resume?"

George Orban,
Sydney