Thursday, October 02, 2003
i'm in an extremely terrible mood right now, just got out of a very frustrating session in the cashier's office...think every month my general health is threatened when i get my school fees bill...it's driving me nuts! found out i was charged a late fee of $20, when i've made it a point to pay my fees regularly every month. so i went down to the office to find out just why that was, they told me it was for an advanced housing fee billed in august that i still haven't paid for. didn't have my august billing statement with me so i had to make another trip down after i had dug out the statement. and it turns out i did pay the advanced housing fee in august. so i go down and ask what's up with that...the guy says he doesn't know, i have to go back tomorrow morning (at 8.30 am no less!) to talk to the manager. i also noticed that i'm being charged certain things twice, so i asked about that. turns out that although in the billing statement they break the amount down according to housing, insurance, tuition etc...when you actually pay the money it doesn't necessarily go into those accounts. so the money i think i'm paying for housing sometimes goes into insurance, sometimes goes into housing...it's totally random! so apparently the august amount that i thought i had paid for housing was channelled into something that wasn't housing, which then made it look like i had not paid the housing fee on time, and that's why they're charging me a late fee. which is just stupid (this is a lousy word, i'm sorry, but i'm in a lousy mood)...because I have no control over where they choose to channel the funds i think i'm paying something else for! in short...i'm pissed (another lousy word to match my lousy mood) and very very frustrated (have i mentioned?). when i left the cashier's office i was at the point of tears because i was just getting nowhere! argh...
i'm sure there's been something good about my day, at this point of time i'm just wallowing too much in my miseries to recall what it was. but "always look on the bright side of life" right? at least the day isn't over...there's navigators tonight, which should put a smile on my face. and i'm going for this battle of the brain thing, where professors and students pit themselves against each other to see who is master of more useless info...it's a trivia game thing, ha...sounds like fun. just that the day has been ruined by the thought of having to wake up early tomorrow to go fight about money again (sigh, wish we could just do away with money altogether!). so much for my pleasant mornings. i guess at least the morning is pleasant, otherwise tomorrow will be doubly worse. i'll just turn my nose up high and say "heck" to the ugliness of real life and enjoy the romantic illusion that morning is all it should be...i.e. without monetary woes and unnecessary bureaucracy. k, smile val smile...weekend's coming. someone tell me why those words sound so feeble even to myself? i must be strong...on to do my homework.
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wow...just read an email from my GSI. the graduate student union is going on strike to protest unfair labor practices, so i won't have english discussion tomorrow since it's led by my GSI...first time i've had an experience of the sort, definitely won't happen in s'pore! pity actually...coz i enjoy my english discussions, and there's a midterm the following week so we were probably going to do review. but this makes me realize my problems are small in comparison...see, there's good things to be found in life if you only look hard enough.
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i was so caught up in lamenting about my sad state of affairs that i totally forgot i was going to write about all the mad people i've seen today. mad as in insane, not mad as in angry, because if i were to write about mad as in angry i would be writing about me and i've had enough of me for today, though after all this rambling i probably qualify for mad as in insane as well. anyhow...back to the mad people.
was coming back from lunch today when i saw this tall blonde guy with long curly hair (would have been cute under other circumstances) with a distant, starry eyed look that mentally ill people tend to have, he was staring into the air and smiling at nothing in particular. here's the very sad part, he was dragging along what i presume to be his son, the little boy couldn't have been more than 3 years old...had the same goldilocks hair...i was just thinking, what sort of future does this poor boy have? if his mother could "discard" him into such uncertain arms of his father, she must be even worse of...he looks like an angel now, but he's all set to grow up maladjusted and living on the streets, how tragic.
the second mad person i encountered was this old black guy who was walking around swinging a saw (a saw!), needless to say i kept my distance from him. no deep thoughts on this guy, coz well...he was just plain dangerous and that's all there is to it.
third mad person...well, this person wasn't really a mad person, just obviously gay. he was wearing a ribbed pink top with capped sleeves, wore low-rider black jeans with a metal belt around his waist, his black underwear sticking out by about 3 inches...don't know what to make of people like that. if they dare to step out of the house, i can't fault them for courage!
oh, on a side note...there has been a good thing that happened to me today! i won two free passes to the pacific film archive theater...some lucky draw thing i even forgot i had taken part in. yes, hope things start looking up from here.
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i'm sure there's been something good about my day, at this point of time i'm just wallowing too much in my miseries to recall what it was. but "always look on the bright side of life" right? at least the day isn't over...there's navigators tonight, which should put a smile on my face. and i'm going for this battle of the brain thing, where professors and students pit themselves against each other to see who is master of more useless info...it's a trivia game thing, ha...sounds like fun. just that the day has been ruined by the thought of having to wake up early tomorrow to go fight about money again (sigh, wish we could just do away with money altogether!). so much for my pleasant mornings. i guess at least the morning is pleasant, otherwise tomorrow will be doubly worse. i'll just turn my nose up high and say "heck" to the ugliness of real life and enjoy the romantic illusion that morning is all it should be...i.e. without monetary woes and unnecessary bureaucracy. k, smile val smile...weekend's coming. someone tell me why those words sound so feeble even to myself? i must be strong...on to do my homework.
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wow...just read an email from my GSI. the graduate student union is going on strike to protest unfair labor practices, so i won't have english discussion tomorrow since it's led by my GSI...first time i've had an experience of the sort, definitely won't happen in s'pore! pity actually...coz i enjoy my english discussions, and there's a midterm the following week so we were probably going to do review. but this makes me realize my problems are small in comparison...see, there's good things to be found in life if you only look hard enough.
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i was so caught up in lamenting about my sad state of affairs that i totally forgot i was going to write about all the mad people i've seen today. mad as in insane, not mad as in angry, because if i were to write about mad as in angry i would be writing about me and i've had enough of me for today, though after all this rambling i probably qualify for mad as in insane as well. anyhow...back to the mad people.
was coming back from lunch today when i saw this tall blonde guy with long curly hair (would have been cute under other circumstances) with a distant, starry eyed look that mentally ill people tend to have, he was staring into the air and smiling at nothing in particular. here's the very sad part, he was dragging along what i presume to be his son, the little boy couldn't have been more than 3 years old...had the same goldilocks hair...i was just thinking, what sort of future does this poor boy have? if his mother could "discard" him into such uncertain arms of his father, she must be even worse of...he looks like an angel now, but he's all set to grow up maladjusted and living on the streets, how tragic.
the second mad person i encountered was this old black guy who was walking around swinging a saw (a saw!), needless to say i kept my distance from him. no deep thoughts on this guy, coz well...he was just plain dangerous and that's all there is to it.
third mad person...well, this person wasn't really a mad person, just obviously gay. he was wearing a ribbed pink top with capped sleeves, wore low-rider black jeans with a metal belt around his waist, his black underwear sticking out by about 3 inches...don't know what to make of people like that. if they dare to step out of the house, i can't fault them for courage!
oh, on a side note...there has been a good thing that happened to me today! i won two free passes to the pacific film archive theater...some lucky draw thing i even forgot i had taken part in. yes, hope things start looking up from here.
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