i will dot this post with another passing mention of "the boy who lived" (nyuk, nyuk)... i have finished reading "half-blood prince" last saturday (whew! less than a week! *eyes boggle*) and well, the best i can say is it was satisfactory... there's always the good 'ol prose that makes you want to keep reading, but then the downside was how this book started (was a little bored) and how the prince was revealed... it was too uhm, anticlimactic (like it was spewed). and i wasn't convinced with the relationships (but ooh... "snogging"! hell yeah!) ... you couldn't fault someone for having been "spoilered-at" before having read. but the surprising side? for the life of me, i couldn't help but feel teary-eyed when * died, with the dangerous mission & the avada & the funeral. it was too darn emotional. though i have my speculations as to why -- maybe * was actually somebody else. anyhoo...

(before i fail to mention again, i have bought the "love actually" vcd last week... something for christmas!)

1 week has passed with all my subject professors reporting for duty. basically i think this semester is going to be one tight ride. i hate that i have to be welcomed first thing on mondays with the "heart-pounding" subjects, math & accounting. ESPECIALLY accounting. our prof this time is one commanding woman. she expects us be really 'on it', bombarded with exercises and problems on the first day of lessons. man! i now have to make a radical shift on doing my homework (cut my tv time? hmm, let's negotiate... there aren't really a lot of shows to monitor, and most of my favorites fall on the same day so it isn't really a disturbance)... try to solve EVERYTHING! i will have to devote most of my free time now to counting merchandise and all those freight stuff... frightening eh?

and... don't you think jeeves is cute? =p

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