all i want for christmas is..

..to do well for my chemistry exams in january. after the exam talk on tuesday it just occurred to me how important my upcoming exams are. they take up 25% of my grade this year which is really quite alot. and i'm so not confident for them. in fact i think i'm kinda screwed. only 3 weeks to study 11 modules. and out of the 11 i think 5 of them i have to start from scratch. ie not revise but learn the whole chapter by myself. ahhh. good luck to me.

..to have a good and enjoyable turkey trip. somehow i seem to get worried about the weather in turkey alot. i think maybe it was coz of my last trip in netherlands where the weather TOTALLY spoilt it. so now i'm hoping for nice bright sunny weather in turkey. no rain no snow or horribly strong winds please. it's my only chance to take a break (and try to fully enjoy it) before i start mugging for chem so hope it'll turn out well!

..a nice supervisor for my fyp. i dunno what are the chances that i'll get my first choice (coz honestly speaking i have no idea where i stand in my whole cohort) but whatever it is i just hope i get someone that i don't regret. spending two months doing smth you don't want to is quite tiring. and well even if the supervisor is nice i hope the project won't be too hard and it'll be interesting enough to sustain me for months as well as allow me to generate a proper 15-page report. i hope i'm not asking for too much =p

..for my family to someday get the chance to come visit me in london. which means in the next 6 months or so. which is highly unlikely looking at the state of my family back home now.. but you'll never know! maybe someday something will really happen and i can show them around montrose and imperial. it's always good to be optimistic isn't it? haha like benny said i should keep up my positive attitude - it's @()#$**#%() contagious =p

..for MOE to give me my masters & for ETH to accept me. i dunno how badly i want this actually. i'd thought about it many many times and i'm kinda more inclined towards starting NIE next year. as in really. another 18 months overseas away from home seems like abit too much for me liao. quite tired and wanna start settling down asap. then alot of people have said that i should do masters only after i've started working for a few years. but ahhh i dunno. i think i'd regret it if i dun do my masters now. so oh well might as well just try and see how things go..

..a happy 22nd birthday. i know this is abit early but no one said you can't wish for stuff 7 months in advance =p i will most likely be celebrating it back home coz i've never had a birthday away from singapore for 21 years and i don't think i want it to be any different next year. but still.. celebrating it here in london is smth which i've always wished i could do. every time friends throw parties or gatherings for each other i get awfully jealous coz it'll never happen to me. so this year before i go back to singapore i must must celebrate it with friends here in london. hope i'd remember when the time comes!

..you. raffles night. retrophilia. ice-skating. german lessons. stuff when i wished you were around but you were not. i really hope the list doesn't get any longer. someone mentioned that i'm "a little fluttered this term, like there is smth unsettling in your life". i personally sense it too but i don't quite know what the reason is. though a portion of it is probably you. as christmas arrives this year it just means that i've only got -exactly- 6 months left till the end of my undergrad studies in imperial. 6 months is not long yah. it'll pass by very very fast. mhmm so i just wish that i'd be able to spend much more -quality- time with you over the next few months before i leave. oh well hope FYP will be nice and grant me that wish =p

alright off to turkey in about 7 hours. so merry christmas everyone! may you get many many presents and enjoy the last few days of 2008. and if you happen to read this in time - happy 21st birthday colin =)