Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Why am I so stupid - Installment #3
Sent an email with some questions to the admissions staff at Smith College... BUT ADDRESSED THE EMAIL TO MOUNT HOLYOKE ("I am... applying to Mount Holyoke"). FUCK.
The person replied me already and asked if I was intending to apply to Smith or not T___T
Yes I did copy the email from the original one I sent to Mount Holyoke but the dumb thing is when I copied it to resend it to Smith I ACTUALLY SKIMMED THROUGH THE EMAIL TO MAKE SURE THERE WERE NO MISTAKES. And I didn't realize it was "Mount Holyoke" in the email instead of "Smith"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Haih I hate it when things like these happen IT IS JUST LIKE WHEN I SLEEP IN AND FORGET TO GO FOR MY JOB.
What happened???? Have I always been this careless? I remember very clearly of a time when I wasn't!!!! Prior to coming to the US I'd always read my emails very meticulously, and I NEVER forgot my appointments :( Ok this new year, I promise myself to be more on the ball lol.
Sigh it's ok this will not bother me anymore after some time. :(
Our results came out today. I was utterly restless last night and woke up a few times in my sleep thinking about my results. In the morning when I woke up for real (8+ AM, I have not woken up naturally this early for a long time) and checked online, our results still weren't posted yet so my sister and I went out. When we came back in the afternoon she went on her laptop and I was minding my own business and she suddenly shrieked, "Results are out!" I checked my results and they are... Ok... I guess... I wish I did better but of course everyone wishes that way don't they, unless they're like easily content and/or already at the top.
And I think my results have me at quite a precarious position. As in, I should be able to transfer successfully but I would feel a lot more secure if my GPA was higher. Argh but I probably fucked it up a bit with Smith already after that email, especially since I sent the email directly to the admissions director overseeing international applicants. But actually Mount Holyoke is where I want to go to the most! So I guess maybe this is like a sign pointing me in the right direction...? Hahahaha.
On to happier things. I am currently in Boston and it is LOVELY. I love it! So much so that after returning from lunch yesterday I went on the computer and searched to see if there were any colleges in Boston I could look at to transfer to. Sadly, they're all non-applicable to me (e.g. Berklee College of Music), impossible to get into (Harvard), or not good enough academically. If... When, I get into Mount Holyoke, I can make friends and we'd make the 2 hour drive up to Boston once in a while I'm so excited it's gonna be so fun hahahahaha ok from now on I am gonna be positive. Yessssss I will make it into Moho!!!!!!!
But back to Boston. Yesterday we spent most of our time outside in Chinatown. It was so disconcerting, because there were Asians everywhere (as it should be, it's Chinatown after all) and everywhere people were speaking Canto/Chinese! For real, for a moment I actually forgot I was in the US. After we left and I had to speak to an angmoh to ask for directions or something, I actually fumbled cos my mind was still attuned to speaking in Singlish/Chinese.
And the FOOD, oh glorious food. It's probably not much compared to Singapore, but I'll take it. I had carrot cake yesterday for the first time in months and it felt amazing. PORRIDGE TOO, like real, watery congee, not the thick, lumpy mess I conjured with my slow cooker at college.
But today we returned to the same restaurant cos we wanted to tabao carrot cake and the waitress was so rude! She's this middle-aged auntie with short hair that's dyed brown. I had to pay her for the carrot cake and I prepared $5.25 before she came to me with the receipt, but I conveniently forgot that in US, prices stipulated are ALWAYS before tax. So when she said "是五块六毛" I hurriedly scoured through my wallet for 35 cents for her. And because I'm STILL not used to American coins, and unlike Singapore what they have are pennies (1c), nickels (5c), dimes (10c), and quarters (25c), I guess I looked a bit confused. I fished out another quarter for her because it's the biggest coin and easiest to pick out, and after some time I finally managed to find a dime for her.
She flipped the coins about in her palm and haughtily pronounced that I had only given her $5.55. She was really fierce about it, I don't know why, maybe because I was holding her up and she had tables to serve. Or maybe she was unhappy at how clueless I looked digging through my wallet for coins although I SWEAR I ONLY TOOK LIKE TEN SECONDS AT MOST. I was really sure I had given her a dime (on top of the quarter coin) but I thought I could have remembered it wrongly, and thought that a dime could be 5 cents instead of 10. I spluttered, "哦，对不起," and went back to look through my wallet again.
AND THEN she barked at me, "你怎么这样的啊？搞到我们做外买..." She trailed off impatiently. When she saw that I was picking out pennies in my wallet to pass to her (after all, I had thought I was missing 5 cents and I couldn't find any nickels in my wallet), she snapped again: "我不要那个 pennies!" WTF. I was already quite pissed cos her attitude was already quite bad before! And it wasn't even my fault! I was tempted to thrust the pennies into her palm (at this point I was already about to take them out and give them to her) and expostulate, "我说要给就是给！！！" like the ahlian I am HAHAHAHA but I didn't because I was afraid she would spit into my food WTF. In the end I just gave her another quarter and she returned me the dime I had given her, and I was left standing there staring at the dime wondering if it was indeed 5 cents, and not 10.
Ok actually thinking back this is quite funny lol.
Finally, today (it is still Jan 2 here in America) is Ah Neng's birthday! Happy birthday old man!!!! You are now 22, which sounds really old because when I first knew you you were still 17 and that sounds like miles away from 22 even though it is really only 5 years. Lol among other things thanks for inadvertently introducing Making April to me through your iPod during the Osaka trip although it is quite sad that they have already disbanded. But until your next birthday I hope the rest of your year turns out awesomely even though you no longer have Nero biting at your arm hahaha.Labels: Why Am I So Stupid
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