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COP15

Taken from Time.com:

5 Things to Watch for at the Copenhagen Climate-Change Conference
By Bryan Walsh

Tens of thousands of diplomats, activists, journalists, businesspeople, celebrities and assorted green hangers-on have descended on the Danish capital of Copenhagen for the U.N.'s annual climate-change summit starting on Monday. Officially, the meeting is known as the 15th Conference of the Parties — in reference to the parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) — but it might be more accurately called the Last Chance.

To advocates of action on global warming, the Copenhagen summit represents the last, best chance to slow and eventually reverse the growth in greenhouse-gas emissions before climate change begins to spin out of control. To skeptics of climate change, many of whom will attend the conference, Copenhagen is the last defense of another kind — against the growing global momentum to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, an undertaking they think could cripple the international economy. Either way, it is likely to be the most important international environmental conference in history, its importance bolstered by President Barack Obama's decision to appear at the end of the summit (initially he had planned to arrive at the start), when the most significant discussions occur and a deal might actually be made.

Although the early and most optimistic expectations for the conference have been blunted, negotiators still have an extraordinary job ahead. They will pore over the endless footnotes and parentheticals of U.N. documents in order to work toward a new global treaty, for which they are expected to generate a framework. "Copenhagen is already a turning point in the international response to climate change," said UNFCCC chair Yvo de Boer on Dec. 6. Over the next 12 days of negotiations, here are the top five matters to watch for:

1. Will the U.S. lead? The U.S. delegation to climate summits under former President George W. Bush played the spoiler. Not only were American diplomats generally opposed to building a global consensus on reducing carbon emissions, they actively seemed to enjoy gumming up the works, walking out in the middle of negotiations during the Montreal summit in 2005, for instance, and nearly torpedoing the entire process two years ago in Bali.

Under Obama, however, we can expect the U.S. delegation, led by top climate envoy Todd Stern, to play a positive role in the talks. That's key — the fact that the U.S. wouldn't play in the past meant that negotiations could rarely move forward, and that there was little leverage for putting pressure on major developing nations like China and India to cut emissions. This year, Obama himself will attend the Copenhagen talks on Dec. 18, the final day of the summit, and he will bring tentative emissions-reduction targets for the U.S. — about a 17% cut in 2005-level emissions by 2020. "What's significant from our perspective is, after eight years of [the U.S.] not doing anything, President Obama in a year has really tried to move things in the opposite direction," said Democratic Senator John Kerry, who heads the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee.

Nevertheless, Obama's negotiating team will be somewhat hamstrung, because the Senate still has to approve any climate treaty, whether it is signed at the summit or afterward. The range of emissions cuts that Obama will bring to Copenhagen is based on the cap-and-trade bills that have been approved by the House of Representatives, but the Senate may not vote on the bill until the spring. That means any progress made in Copenhagen will be provisional — if the Senate votes down carbon caps next year, things could fall apart.

Even so, the emissions cuts the U.S. is willing to agree to are still far short of what the European Union is promising, and far less than what developing nations are demanding. "Overall the level of ambition is too low," says Alden Meyer, director of strategy and policy at the Union of Concerned Scientists. "That leaves us with low expectations for the summit."

2. Will China and India follow? Historically, the U.S. may be the world's biggest carbon emitter — responsible for more than a quarter of the man-made CO2 in the atmosphere — but developing nations led by China and India will be responsible for the majority of future emissions. At the same time, those nations still have low per capita emissions, and under the Kyoto Protocol, they haven't been required to take any verifiable actions to control emissions. Until recently, they haven't shown much interest in doing so, but that may now be changing.

China recently announced that Premier Wen Jiabao would attend the Copenhagen summit, and that he would bring a Chinese promise to reduce carbon intensity — essentially a measure of energy efficiency — at least 40% by 2020. Shortly afterward, India followed up with its own pledge to cut carbon intensity 20% to 25% by 2020. "If India wants to lead the developing nations, we have to offer something," said Jairam Ramesh, India's Environment Minister, in a speech to lawmakers on Dec. 3. "India stands for a comprehensive, equitable agreement."

Sounds pretty good. But as Michael Levi, a climate-change expert for the Council on Foreign Relations, was quick to point out, both China and India will almost certainly improve their carbon intensity as they continue to develop, so their new pledges may hardly be better than business as usual. More worrying, both countries are resisting making their domestic pledges measurable and verifiable under an international treaty — unless they receive more climate aid. In other words, the rest of the world would need to take Beijing and New Delhi's word for it — something Washington is dead set against. Expect sharp negotiation on this point.

3. The two-step tango. Back in 2007 on the sunny Indonesian island of Bali, negotiators worked out the "Bali road map," a series of steps toward a successor to the Kyoto Protocol that would guarantee a new global climate treaty by the 2009 conference in Copenhagen. Well, road map or not, the international community got a bit delayed — in part due to the fact that Obama has had less than a year to turn around U.S. climate policy — and no one expects an actual treaty to be negotiated and signed in Copenhagen.

Instead we may have what Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen has called the "two-step approach." In the first step, world leaders would converge on a "political agreement" in Copenhagen that would emphasize the importance of fighting climate change and perhaps set out global temperature targets for the future. Work would also be done to form as much of the legal architecture of a deal as possible — such as agreements on deforestation, on financial aid for adaptation, perhaps on target levels. Afterward, major countries like the U.S., Australia and Canada would have time to pass domestic carbon caps at home. In the second step, at a later meeting — either a special summit or next year's COP in Mexico City in December — the numbers could be dropped into a treaty and quickly signed. In this way, "Copenhagen can be a resounding success," said de Boer before the conference began.

But if Copenhagen really only produces another dry political statement about the need to deal with climate change, well, that's already been done. And a lot can go wrong between the first step and the second step. The U.S. Senate could refuse to support domestic carbon caps, which might scuttle the entire treaty process; or other skeptical countries, such as Russia or Saudi Arabia, could likewise throw a wrench in the process. But most importantly, after the summit, momentum could dissipate. The Copenhagen meeting represents a rare, fleeting moment when the entire world will be focused on climate change. "Will you lose the potential will to negotiate a legally binding treaty after the spotlight is off Copenhagen and the ministers and heads of state go home?" asks Meyer.

4. Seeing REDD on deforestation. The loss of tropical forests plays a major role in climate change, contributing about 15% of global greenhouse gases, according to the most recent estimate. But deforestation has an environmental impact that goes beyond climate change — tropical forests are home to a wealth of diverse species, and when the trees are lost, wildlife follows.

Slowing the rate of deforestation has a double benefit, but currently there's no mechanism for developing countries to earn carbon funding by keeping their trees. That could change in Copenhagen with the inclusion of REDD — Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation. The plan would allow tropical nations like Brazil and Indonesia to earn carbon credits by pledging to keep their forests standing — just as developing nations can already earn carbon money by switching to renewable power or cleaning up a polluting factory. "There is an enormous opportunity to be seized here," says Duncan Marsh, director of international climate policy at the Nature Conservancy.

What makes forestry proponents so optimistic is that REDD, much more so than any other part of a potential climate deal, has broad support from both developed and developing countries. Major developing powers, including Brazil and Indonesia, once suspicious that REDD would require them to surrender sovereignty over their forests, are now eager to be involved. At the same time, developed countries see avoided deforestation as a cheap and easy way to offset their own emissions — the cap-and-trade bill approved by the U.S. House in June includes specific provisions for REDD offsets. "REDD really could be one of the success stories out of Copenhagen," says Marsh.

5. Financing adaptation. Combating climate change isn't just about reducing carbon emissions. Global warming is coming even if we do act fast, and developing nations will bear the brunt of the impact. That's why another leg in the global treaty will address funding to help developing nations adapt to climate change — whether that means the building of seawalls, aid for agriculture during increasing droughts or the ability to better respond to natural disasters. "We need clarity on long-term finance for developing countries," says de Boer.

For a long time, no one could agree on how much money would need to be spent. The White House has said that the Copenhagen accord should be able to mobilize at least $10 billion a year to support adaptation and mitigation in developing nations, while British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said he expects developed countries to ultimately spend up to $100 billion a year for adaptation. The White House is now saying there is an "emerging consensus" on the $10 billion–per-year figure, at least by 2012, but it isn't clear how or who would distribute the money. Developed countries generally prefer the World Bank or another existing institution to handle it, while many developing countries want an entirely new body. "Will aid for developing countries be part of overall development aid, or in a legally binding treaty or some other basket?" says Meyer. No one knows yet.

As the talks begin in Copenhagen, there's reason for climate-change advocates to feel optimistic — for the first time world leaders will be sitting down to focus solely on global warming — and reasons to worry that everything will collapse. The one thing we know is that this summit will help decide whether the world takes on climate change, or continues risking business as usual. "This is our last chance to avoid a dangerous 2°C of warming," says Dan Lashof, the director of the Natural Resource Defense Council's Climate Center. One way or another, now is the time to act.

Reflection

Well, that's it.

The term has ended. My first and longest term in Upper 6. It's been a pretty eventful one I must say!

It seemed to have passed me by while I was too busy to notice the time passing. Where do I begin?

First week in upper 6 and it was pretty exciting to see all the 'fresh blood'. I can imagine how they felt I guess...being new to the whole boarding school concept, feeling excited and raring to go (or so I think). It's pretty cool how suddenly everyone in the school looks up to you just because you're an upper 6. Not so cool the fact that you're suddenly supposed to be able to answer every question they throw at you =(

But it's okay! Because they wouldn't know if we didn't know to begin with =D *ahem* I mean because we are so experienced and wise we can tackle anything thrown at us! C'mon man, we survived OBS! *grins*

Outward Bound...oh my gosh, that has been the hot topic this term! Almost every meal conversation seems to relate back to those 10 bittersweet days in the isolated land called Lumut. It was quite an experience...one that none of us will forget although some events stand out more than others *grins* But seriously, it's so weird how every conversation goes there. I think we really somehow did get to know each other better there despite everything...and when we think of a certain characteristic about a person it's like "Yeah man! Remember at OBS when ________ did _________ and we all _______". Yep, good old days.

I surprised myself again on how many things I managed to do in a term =/ It all started with the nightmare that is UCAS. Writing, editing and reediting my PS until it was as perfect as I could make it was more draining than I had expected it to be. Honestly, I have never felt so emotionally stressed out in my entire life bar nothing. It's different, the kind of stress that stems from dealing with something that will affect your future and just some random activity or performance. I genuinely felt like I came out of that a stronger person emotionally. It might seem like a small thing to some - "Writing a Personal Statement made her stronger? Pffft, what pure BS" - but it's true for me under my circumstances and what I had to go through. Well it was worth it then since I've gotten offers from UCL and Warwick.

In the middle of all applications was the biggest, toughest, meanest event of every year: House Singing! Although I wasn't as involved in it as Voon, Jac, Ishmam and Betty, I tried my very best to help in what I could. Played the guitar, as usual...I mean do you seriously expect me to sing?? 14 days, about 12 practices and lots of fun moments later, we had the cup with us once again =)

Then, came the horrors of organizing IU week. We being us, decided to do things differently this time and choose an era instead of a country: The Medieval Era. Think knights, robin hood and witches. With the theme "A Journey through the Medieval, A Reflection of Our Millennium" we set out to take the school by storm. I wouldn't consider it a big success...in fact I think this was actually one of the only events where things happened that were below a standard that I would have liked. I mean it was really good but somethings just didn't go as I'd imagined and I was pretty upset about that but it's okay...you learn and move on and that's what I did. Given the conditions we were under though, I don't think anything much could have been done. I know I admit that I made quite a few mistakes while heading the project but hey, I'm not perfect right? I'll just remember not to repeat them. The night turned out awesome though...and so did the House of Terror so for that I am grateful. Also grateful to have an amazing team to work with that had to put up with my unstable emotions at that time (in the midst of applications when we had meetings) but we managed it together and that's all that matters. Like I said, I came out of the whole experience a more emotionally stable person.

Anywayyy........then was the prefect's first project! The Anti-bullying campaign by Group 3 (Zoe, Azril, Peng Yong, TJ, Jaclyn and Sam Starlight) started with a bang when we got the school talking with our memorable assembly presentation on statistics about the level of bullying in each house. Some were horrified and some were relieved as Zoe revealed the house with the highest levels of bullying as rated by the students. I honestly didn't expect such a big reaction from the school and although I do admit I was very pleased with the fact that the presentation got the ENTIRE school talking about it for days and weeks after, I did sympathize with the students in the affected houses. As my own house was included in the list of critical houses, I really could relate to them but as an insider in the project, I knew that the main aim of the stats was just to raise awareness and that was one objective down. The activities that followed weren't as drastic - a pledge wall for students to pledge against bullying, essay writing competitions and the "hero among us" award where the juniors voted for the person who they felt is the hero among them and stands up against bullying. Overall, I believe the project was a success and set an extremely high benchmark for the projects to follow. The quality of work done was good and the message was driven home. I think we did manage to get the students to realize the different types of bullying that are out there and to be more vocal about it which is always good. Hopefully this isn't short-lived and goes on though the campaign ended.

After that came the next of the prefect's projects: Appreciation Week (by Group 2 - Shareen, Voon Hui, Azim, Syadhisy, Thiru, Yasmin). A week in our lives to appreciate the amount of work done by our school's support staff - not too much of time I would think...maybe even not enough. Again, it started with an assembly presentation where 2 members of the floor, a guy and a girl, were welcomed to the stage where two beds were set up (or should I say messed up). Basically they had to compete to clean up the mess. This was followed by an excellent, touching speech by Syadhisy about how we don't realize the amount of work done by these people to clean up after the mess we have made. Good start to the week I would think. The hard work of group 2 resulted in charts of the entire ground staff (including the painters which some of us didn't know exist!) being put up around the school as well as notes reading "Have you said Thank You today?" put up in the dining hall. A morning tea was also organized specially for the support staff during the week where prefects helped to serve them food and took pictures with them. "Never in the 18 years I have been here, has anyone done something like this for us," said one of them to the agreement of his colleagues and that made everything worth the effort.

Then, I sat for my SAT subject tests. Gosh, I almost died trying to study for it amidst all the action in school. I remember when I actually got down to studying the physics, I seriously wanted to bang my head against the wall when I realized I had to self study about 75% as I either haven't learnt it yet in A Levels or it's not in the syllabus O.O But it's okay, I said to myself...I'm gonna major in physics, a little bit of SAT won't kill me and so I got down to it. Chapter by chapter and eventually I had most of it nailed down. The parts I didn't understand, I took to my teacher to help out and soon I was sitting in the exam room attempting questions. I'm not gonna say it was easier than expected because it wasn't. Both the Math and Physics were as tough as I had expected them to be but I managed it and hey presto....3 weeks later I received a 750/800 for Physics and 760/800 for Math II. Not to shabby a result I would think for something almost entirely self studied =)

Didn't have much time to rest after that as the GP exam followed soon after. The paper was alright, although I'm very sure I wrote too much for my essay so now I'm a bit worried about that...but what's done is done and I can only hope for the best. Results in coming out at the end of the year, wish me luck!

The period that followed was one of the more relaxing times of the term when about 90% of the U6 were on study break for AS exams (which I didn't have to resit, thank god!). Most of my classes were off except for a few. It wasn't all nap and relaxation time for me as I had to prepare for my Oxford Physics test and SAT Reasoning Test; both of which seriously drove me over the edge. The Oxford Physics test was this 2 hour paper of Math and Physics that makes you doubt your ability to do Math and Physics and the SAT Reasoning Test is a 4 hour marathon of English and Math which makes you wonder how good your English really is =/ Well, I survived both, thankfully, with a 2170/2400 score for SAT and an upcoming Oxford interview which means I scored higher than average on the test =)

I'm now at 7th November and I'm struggling to remember what happened next. Ah, yes, the next weekend was the IELTS exam in the middle of which I went partying at the school's social event, haha. Social this time was alright I guess but given the lack of people who were in school that weekend, pretty understandable why the atmosphere wasn't that great. IELTS was....interesting =/ For the speaking test I had to talk about the weather =S Your typical British conversation, hahaha. I also had to talk about food, food habits, grocery shopping and my most significant meal. Hmm. I talked about the first meal we cooked at OBS =D *awww moment*. That all went pretty well! Scored an 8.5/9 for it which is will definitely get me into uni and proves that I can speak, write, listen and read English =P It also means I don't have to resit the RM500 test O.O

The week that followed was the week of THIMUN which meant quite a lot of my friends left for Singapore. A Samantha-less week led to the week being extremely quiet. Hmm. It started with a bang though as our Anti-Housism campaign took off after about a month of planning. The assembly is one the school will remember for quite awhile as Jinho took the stage and initiated what we call the "1KTJ Assembly". After a touching video (done by Stanley and Wei Jie) on being a united school with no barriers between students, Jinho gave a speech and then ran an activity where the students rearranged themselves to line up not by house as they usually are lined up but by form. It might be a small step but it's symbolic in nature that we don't need to always associate ourselves with our houses to show our patriotism to our houses. If we're proud of our own houses, mixing around and being nice to everyone else won't change anything.

The week ended with the filming of the trailer for Prefect's Night. Quite hilarious actually =P I'll try to put it up when I have time. Initially, we wanted to play it during the next assembly but the assembly was canceled due to exam =( It's okay though, coz we played it on the night itself, hehe. In the midst of all this madness, I was working on my USA applications, writing draft after draft of essays as I was dissatisfied =( But it's okay, they're almost done now, almost as perfect as I can possibly make them.

The days that were to come can only be defined by two words: Hectic and Insane. In 5 days, we were going to come up with a plan, practice and rehearse our Prefect's Night performance that Saturday. Can you imagine that? And you know we would never settle for less than the best we can manage. So it began...each day we were either practising a scene or filming them. Everyday, I'd be out from after school until dinner with only enough energy to finish my Math prep before going to bed at night. I thought it was pretty cool, our idea of meshing live performances and prerecorded ones as not only is it more interesting to watch, it's less stress during rehearsals =D But I remember feeling so happy that week coz every day went perfect. Everything went according to plan - each day's objective was achieved. Seriously, nothing has ever went that well planned for me! Well, prefect's night, as I had detailed in my previous entry was a blast.

I admit there were some weak moments of mine when I snapped and I feel horrible for that. Times when I just couldn't take it and instances when stress got the better of me. But I've learnt and moved on, and hopefully in the future, I'll be better at this. I know I'll try my very best.

"The teachers are talking about it y'know. Some are saying that in the last 15-16 years here in KTJ, they have never seen any prefect batch put in even 10% as much effort as you guys did"

I was over the moon when I heard that from him. Jinho, Me, Izzuddin and Ishmam rewarded them with brownies the next prefect meeting, haha. Well deserved I would say!

Didn't get to rest much that night, as the day after Prefect's Night was Naquiah Day - prefects time with the junior house! It went well, I think all the Naquiah kids enjoyed themselves and so did we =D Got to know quite a few of them and hopefully will get to know more next term =) Spent the rest of the day sleeping my life away O.O

Things began to cool down as we moved into the last few days of school. I fell sick that week which was to be expected given the week I had previously. Took time out to catch up on sleep, work on my US apps. I admit to not doing much work this week as I really just wanted to rest. Wednesday was the much anticipated caroling! Played the guitar again this time and what ever was left of my voice from prefect's night was gone by Thursday morning, haha. But seriously, it was damn fun and I wouldn't have missed it for anything. It was really funny how animated everyone would get when we sang "Feliz Navidad/I wanna wish you a Merry Xmas" when compared to something like "O Holy Night" or "We Three Kings". Hilarious xD

Well, this term is also the last term of Ms Marcel being an Irinah house tutor as she's gonna be the house mistress of Alia house. *starts crying buckets and buckets* She's almost like my best friend in school only that she's a teacher, haha. Really cool, really geeky in her own way. I feel like I can relate to her a lot, and we always seem to be thinking along the same wavelength =) Everytime she's on duty in Irinah, I'll put off whatever work I have just to talk to her for awhile...to update her on my life and to hear what going on in hers...it's really fun =) There was this one time when she, Zoe and I sat across the hallway to witness the potential fight between a praying mantis and a lizard. She and I were all for the praying mantis and Zoe for the lizard. We kept calling Zoe's lizard a loser lizard since it kept chickening out xD That was really funny...we'd like stop everyone from crossing the area in case they scared the lizard or mantis away *grins* I'm really gonna miss her...but it's okay, I'll visit her often and see how Alia is =')

Phew! Term 3 2009. The term ended on a positive note with much to look forward to. It's been a great year, things can only get better.

"Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful."
~ Mark Victor Hansen

*sniff*

I......



....did nothing today and it felt so damn freaking good O.O

Yesterday was prefects' night which translates into the last entire week being extremely hectic filled with rehearsals and practices etc etc etc. BUT it was worth it =)

The theme this time was about unity of the school so we did Harry Potter KTJ Style, haha. Well, HP life is pretty close to what we have here with the houses and housism attitude so we focused on that aspect then ended it with all the houses uniting to fight Voldemort xD It was all very cool. I really felt like we were living in HP world for a week with all the weird conversations I was having:

"When's potions class later?" "Oh, it's at 4pm"

"When are we gonna practice Quiddich?" "Probably 6pm..."

"So when are we gonna learn the dance for the Yule Ball?" "Uh, today right after school"

LOL, anyone listening into our conversations would have thought we were mad. So basically we took the whole TriWizard tournament and made it inter-house so each house had one champion. Then, we added 3 new houses to make it the 7 colors that KTJ houses have. The scene starts with 4 new students being sorted into houses and Dumbledore announcing the TriWizard Tournament and the Goblet of Fire spitting out names of the "chosen ones" from each house (I was a champion from the purple house xD). This was followed by a pre-recorded Potions Class with Professor Snape aka the Proctor in our school, Mr Suresh =P Then of course was the Yule Ball where we danced to Sway by PCD which was sung live by Jean =)

THEN was the final maze scene where we all have to touch the cup to win. So there we are running around the maze, fighting obstacles when Malfoy (the Slytherin champ) sees the cup...runs to it...and *thud* falls to the ground. The rest of us spot the cup, rush over...stop short of Malfoy, look at him....decided that he's not worth helping and all rush for the cup but bang into...an invisible wall. Sigh.

Malfoy tries to solve it by casting a spell but the spell (heh heh) gets thrown back at him. Cedric casts a revealing spell that reveals the secret behind the wall which goes...

"Thy must use Relashio which is magic bound,
To finally vanquish the evil of the wall,
To win the TriWizard Cup waiting safe and sound,
Together thy must be united once and for all."

What? Potter tries to save the day after that but fails. Hah. He then realizes that we all must cast the spell together and so we try....without Malfoy of course who refuses to work with "Mudbloods and Half Bloods". All of us get thrown back by the spell...one of our male champs even gets hit back in a certain area between the legs. Ouch.

Malfoy then agrees, and we all agree to touch the cup together only that when we do......it is a portkey! O.O The next scene (pre-recorded) is when we get up in a foreign place...and witness the birth of Voldemort! We fight in an extremely corny Power Rangers stance before running away....running...running...the video is showing running back...into the hall? The screen goes blank and 7 of us bust through the hall doors and are back on stage, ready to finish him off! Some more corny conversation takes place and we reflect the killing spell back to Voldemort and he dies xD

Then we sand a song written by Jinho called This is Our Home (I think) before going out to watch the awesome firepot demonstration where all the house captains burnt the words "Housism" down with torches to mark the end of it and the beginning of a united school. Aww. =')

Haha. Well, it was a pretty awesome day but I'm glad it's all over now and life can back to normal-ish =)



I am so proud of all them (also for putting up with us in charge =/) and am glad to be leading an amazing board of prefects =)

Breaking Free

Well, can't say social night wasn't a blast. Felt good to just dance the night away (and stop at 11pm but that's not the point x|). Of course I know I probably look horrible dancing but that's not the point either =/

Some of tracks the DJ spinned were pretty good, not so new songs that I almost forgot about and some really old good stuff as well =) Good night....but somehow I'm not that content yet. Still feel like doing something crazy. I don't know what. I really feel the need to just break free from life for awhile. *shrugs*

Freedom!

In a twisted way, yeah.

I'm *sort of* free-ish now that the freaking mind-blowing-so-hard-that-you-just-want-to-give-up-instantly oxford physics/math paper and marathon of a SAT paper is over.

phew.

Talk about hectic week. Hectic month.

.....hectic year -.-"

Now, my time is finally cleared to.......

1. Complete US Apps
2. Prepare for the interview
3. Complete homework (heh heh)
4. Read the newspapers (finally!)
5. Plan and implement THE Prefect Project of the Year xD

I know my life sounds like the life to die for what with all the tons of free time I have for myself but well you know...not everyone is so lucky *sense the sarcasm*...=(

But it's okay...it all fits into the big picture...the greater good...the future of mankind...or rather the future of Sheela Ratnam. Which is equally important...to me of course, not to anyone else x|

On a lighter note, I'm pretty content with things right now...well, socially. I'm not quite content with things intelectually but that's a different story. I feel like my brain will deteriorate to dust soon if I don't start reading something other than textbooks and SAT material! Hmm. We'll see.

Countdown to holidays: 27 days! =)
Countdown to Kuching trip: 50 days! ;)

Yup, I'll be crashing Kuching soon to visit Sam and other Kuching-ites. Can't wait till then =)

Latest sort of favourite song: Fallin for You, Colbie Caillat. Could this be an indication of something? Hmm, I wonder, haha.

Till next time! =)