Saturday, January 31, 2009
& it's a new day at{ 11:48 PM
today was a boring day.
because i slept.
alot.
=)
but i splurged on china kitchen for dinner. LOL...
only to discover that china kitchen is a waste of time, the one further away is just that much better.. lol. =)
nighty night people.
& it's a new day at{ 11:47 PM
hmmmm had girls night last night in my friend's room....left my phone in my room tho.. so ...
my bad to whoever tried to call me.
lots of laughing and talking.
it was fun =)
more later.
life's slow on the weekends ^^
& it's a new day at{ 6:58 AM
today.
wake up.
eat.
study.
class.
study.
class.
chat.
chat somemore.
and now, blog.
and later, nap.
then shower.
then go to ashes room.
then vespers.
then visit a friend.
then sleep.
it's the weekend,
throw your hands up and say AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMENNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNn =P
sorry.
once you go black, you never go back.
HAHAHAHAHAHA...
ok that was just wrong..
but anyway..
nightez ladez~
& it's a new day at{ 10:17 AM
YAYYYYYYYYYYYYY~!
i got 95 on my accounting test.......!!!!!!!
but.
the teacher made a mistake.
actually, i got 98! =p
and that's over a hundred, mind you.
whooooa i feeeeeel good. accounting still holds its lure for me =D
now the pressure is on to do as well on all the remaining tests.
DIE.
& it's a new day at{ 6:17 AM
Thursday, January 29, 2009
this is a....highly embarrassing essay. The instructions was to rewrite the story from the view of another character. =P and i got full marks. so i'm pretty happy. cos the proff said it's really hard to ever get full marks on a response. ^^
The first time I saw my mother-in-law, her face held poorly concealed shock combined with an emotion I could not decipher immediately. I guess the shock was due to the sign language Abel and I used for communication. It was strange to her; it was a language to us, the only one that ever really meant anything. I approached her and greeted her vocally. She must have understood my stilted words because she accepted my outstretched hand. My heart thought optimistically that this was the start of a beautiful relationship. My father-in-law seemed more relaxed, he probably felt a kindred sympathy with me, and I mouthed my greeting to him accompanied by signs. I think he realized that this was a new and improved way of communication for the deaf that would break the silence that we lived in.
Sarah, my mother-in-law, gave Abel and I a tour of the house. I fear we left her out of our conversation too often, but we were desperate to communicate with each other about new thoughts and ideas that the house brought up in us. Our communication was her silence, and once when I turned, I glimpsed a fierce jealousy on her face that disappeared immediately when she noticed me watching. I felt bad for her; she suffered muteness for years in a house full of deaf people. If only she could speak our language, the language Abel and I spoke, the language that I hoped to teach my father-in-law and brothers-in-law, then her world would not need to be silent.
As the days passed, Sarah was nothing but the picture of cordiality to me. Yet every morning when I would offer to help in the kitchen, she refused to let me help, and I knew she felt resentment towards me, the woman who could communicate better with her son than herself. I wanted to share this communication with her, I truly did, but she was not yet ready. My days were mostly spent at my husband’s side, and it was he who taught me what his mother would not.
Finally Sarah showed her disapproval and punished Abel’s younger brothers for learning signs, words, from me. Later, she explanted to me in her silent language, that her family did not use signs, it wasn’t their way. Her expression made the word “signs” seem like a filthy word. I was confused. For her to be uncomfortable about a change in the way her family communicated I could understand, but I could not understand how a mother could be so violently unhappy at her family finally having a way to break their silence. It seemed like selfishness to me.
One supper when Sarah went to prepare dessert, I took the opportunity to quickly teach several words to Abel’s father and brothers. When she returned, she was confronted with a vibrant, communicating family, fingers fluttering, speaking words that I slowly taught. Suddenly, we all saw her watching and there was silence again. Sarah said nothing, and after awhile she returned to the kitchen and stayed there for quite a time. We resumed our talking, and broke up abruptly yet again when she returned. I saw tear streaks on her care-worn face, and I knew something had changed. The others all knew it too. We all watched her intently to see what had happened. Sarah held her hands out; she spoke in her silent language, telling us she wanted the communication that we had. I felt it right that the first words her husband heard her say was the simplest and yet most meaningful expression known to man. I signed it first to her, and she repeated it to Matthew, her husband. “I love you,” she signed slowly but surely, “I love you.”
& it's a new day at{ 9:29 AM
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
im gonna write this first cos i think tonight is going to be a sleepy night for me.
have lotsa lit and accounting. not really alot, but...well.. there's a test for lit coming up on friday.
OH OH OH! and this made my morning kinda happy, i got a 10 out of 10 for my interpretation for my last lit assignment!!! yayyy!!!! and a 10 out of 10 for that day's quiz too! lol! first time getting 10 for an interpretation. usually i get a nine or an eight point five. =)
i'll post it up here later i guess...
anyway.
after classes this morning came back and did accounting hw. there's nine questions. i did about... 6? or 5. idk.
still have all the hard ones to go.... and they need to be done by friday.
this week is gonna be hard....
relatively. i guess. =P
missed dance practise yesterday because i didn't see the email till too late. =P whatever... let dem white girls catch up . lol. jus kidding...
that's about it.
weekend's almost here again. love it.
last weekend i got 12 hours of sleep straight. i wonder how i'll do this weekend. ^^
i wanna try to hit 24. =P
cheeerio~!
& it's a new day at{ 10:42 AM
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Yo y'all.
this is my non-emo blog that shall give details of my brilliant and extremely entertainin life!
for the deeper darker thoughts however, if you find THAT appealing, thou strange people that i happen to know, then you know where to find that!
for today!
my day was wake up, rushed shower while still half asleep....and runnin up to the library to print my final draft of Essay 1. hmm. i like this teacher, the other class has only got up to draft 2 or 3 and we're already turnin in our final! yayy! lol..
then i ran down to the dorm to get a BRAD....which is that little brass thingy that is extremely vital to english papers... and then ran up to the cafe, to be faced with BAKED POTATOES. no i'm not saying it like it's a good thing. it's a bad thing. it's like, brown baked potatoes that looked like they were just scrubbed and dumped in the pan. yeah. maybe not even scrubbed. and then you're supposed to add cheese and some weird sauce and EAT IT. urgh. and the green beans were more like,,,,,dead beans.
i grabbed a soy pie, yoghurt, and a drink.
but upon going outside, i find that my friend has ACTUALLY eaten that. and she tells me it tastes amazin. oookay. so i'm not fully americanized yet!hahahah..
so taht was lunch, and then we went to KR's so i could get HALF a quesadilla. HALF being the keyword. went to classssssssss drew pictures during classs with Ashes. amazinly fun. we drew....mutant frogs and seafood.
after that we chilled in the lobby of BH 3rd floor.... ah. how fun. speed read my chapter....and got 8 out of 10 on the quiz. hmm. i gotta stop doing that, it's pure luck. took notes and slept during the lecture. the proff is too energetic, drains MY energy. but she's hot for a teach. wouldn't be surprised if soem of the guys in my class try to hit on her. LOL. except for that big sparkly ring on her finger...hmmmm....
after that....went to the dorm...got my comp charger back! yay! and acc.ed ashes to the lib,. then had supper with nads in the gazebo. ooooh our nice little date. -.-''' haha! i had 4 onion rings. greasy as you know what. urgh. walked ashes to class, then nads n i went to convo/worship. it's prayer week so they have alot of stuff goin on every day, and we get double credit, so why not?! met up s2 j and j there too. everyone wants dat credit yo! hahaah!
went to the SA centre after with S2 and J...played pool and pingypong. imma beat my dad at pingpong when i get back!!! hahaha~!!! u better go brush up. OH and mom is good at it too last i heard. yeah go work on it you guys. lmao. i got d best player in sausau teachin me.
yeah so imma back in the dorm, finished lit hw, which surprisingly is to read Testimonies 4 Ch 1. NOT.
it's a welcome break from the lit textbook. SERIOUSLY.
which is another reason why not a whole lot of people are gonna get this blog add.
i confess to alot of surprisingly deep things here. =P what.ever.
i'm hungry.
i think it's time to sleep.
did my laundry already.
it was ABOUT TIME.
nightssssssss~!
& it's a new day at{ 11:42 PM
