paper and orange highlighter.

can't get through reading all these papers! it's just so much! and i have an inkling that they're unrelated to the paper that i need to write... :S

the plan is to finish reading today and then plan and write most of the essay today... fingers crossed!!

dude put a cute quote from a rihanna song as his status. cuteness.


i shall keep you all updated with my essay progress later on today. :)

weather is simply gorgeous today, i hope all you melbournians are out there enjoying it!

xx

i can and i will!

really must start my essay today, even if its just reading and researching. i've already left it till very late... ><"

I CAN AND I WILL! :D

work was quiet, so mum let me go home early. YAY! :)

oh, and did i mention...

i had boost juice today. in the first time in like, ages. it was... so... good. :)

why

I wonder why you make me smile.

We share but few words in the space of hours.

I caught you staring last time.

Instead of diverting your eyes and blushing,

You smiled and said, 'Carry on. Don't mind me.'

That in itself made me think if I had ever met anyone like you before.

arghhh. i need to get out more. this dude has my thoughts all wrapped up. i'm checking my facebook every 20 minutes like some 14 year old girl hoping to have a message from him. he probably doesn't even think of me as anything more than that little asian girl from class. i don't even feel like i really like him that much. well it's different from every other time i've ever experienced. it's a settled and humming feeling, rather than a really sharp and overpowering one. maybe this is what its meant to feel like, seeing as though the outcomes of the other type were always quite terrible.

SIGH.

i wish i wasn't so naive and tactless. considering i'm a girl, i completely suck at being one.

procrastination skills, LEVEL UP!

i'm supposed to be writing an essay but my procrastination skills have gotten just so damn good that i've wasted half a day doing random things, like wash my work shirts and watch youtube videos. =="

my essay topic is:

 Is the ‘rule and exemption’ approach to issues of cultural diversity a means of making liberalism and multiculturalism compatible?


It's an interesting topic and I guess I'm split on it. It's hard to apply liberalist values and encourage individualism while trying to treat everyone equally. Rule and exemption. The more I think about it, the more confused I get about my own opinion. To treat a person as an individual is to allow freedom of expression, whatever that expression may be. Rules are then set up to limit this freedom from harming other people. Regulations are made that should really apply to everyone. But some groups claim exemption based on cultural grounds and society often allows this. The group becomes exempt from the rule that everyone else abides by and this creates an uneven playing field. We can only be equal as individuals if the rules that we abide by are all the same. So, I guess my contention is that the rule and exemption theory doesn't really work if its aim is to make liberalism and multiculturalism compatible... I need to read more about it before I make up my mind. :S


I hope everyone is well! I'm trying to blog more often, as you can tell. :)


updations: i think he's a serial flirt artist. :/

updations!

he's cute. but not as cute as he seemed the other day for some reason. facebook add has been done. comfortably commenting back and forth. very much distracted from researching my essay. it's dark outside. i'm scared to walk to the tram stop...

xx

comforting

there's something wonderfully comforting about the sound of the heating system coming on while i sit at my desk in the study with my vintage yellow desk lamp turned on and wearing my pink jumper. i don't know why but it makes me feel so incredibly safe and snug.

i guess i've spent so many cold days/evenings/nights like this that it's become a comfort zone for me. :)