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I slept for 14 hours today, after not sleeping for 34 hours.

I slept at 5am, and woke up at 7.30pm. I have not seen the sun for 24 hours.

That aside, I’ve finally completed all my projects! Woo! I can now get down to studying for exams (pause for people to point incredulously at me and say, “What? Beth? Studying?) without being worried about schoolwork.

And I think I did a pretty good job on most of my projects. The biggest thing was completing the CS331 Advertising and Copywriting portfolio, where I learned that I can create incredibly lame radio ads. I continued in this trend for my CS333 radio ad. I’ll reproduce it here for your entertainment:

- START RADIO COMMERCIAL
SFX: Noises of the shower being turned on.
MAN: (Clears throat and sings; singing is very out of tune) Splish splash I was taking a bath, long ago a Saturday night! A rub-a-dub, just relaxing in my tub, thinking everything was all right…
SFX: Hammering at the door, people start yelling at him.
NEIGHBOR 1: (shouts) Eh, stop singing! So noisy!
NEIGHBOR 2: You think you are a rock star is it?
NEIGHBOR 3: This is not karaoke you know!
ANNCR: There are better places to sing than in the shower. Quit being a bathroom star. Visit K Box today!
MAN: Just one more song?
NEIGHBORS: (Shout) NO!
- END RADIO COMMERCIAL

So I think I might not have a future in the radio-ad-writing industry. There goes that career path. :D

The semester is almost over already. What a shock, as always; the term always passes by so quickly. I start school, it takes me three or four weeks to get into school mode. Before I know it, term break arrives, announcing that half the sem is over. Crunch time for projects and portfolios arrive. Exams start. The semester finishes, leaving me slightly dazed and disoriented - “Where did all that time go?”

Answer: Frying sausages and onions at 4am in the morning, watching Desperate Housewives Season 2, and endlessly surfing the Net.

Well, Singapore Open is this weekend and I’m the tournament director for both B and C divisions. I miss Scrabble, but I’ve been awful about playing in rated tournaments; the last one I played was in January. The last tourney I played was a JGCC mini where I totally kicked ass (I remember knocking Andy, Yen Nee and Quek down in a series of exhilarating games, bingo-ing with lovely words like DACOITY), but because it was unrated, did nothing for my ranking. Bah. And because I’d anticipated that this period would be crunch time for my projects (not expecting to complete them so soon) I’d terminated my application to play in the Open, choosing to take the less-taxing job of directing the tourney rather than let my rankings slide. Sigh.

Exams end November 14, and I’ll be taking off for Israel on the 21st. Less than a month away; I can’t wait. Cannot cannot cannot wait! Two weeks in Israel and Jordan, then back to Singapore; one weekend in JB playing Causeway Cup, back to SG, wonderful wonderful Christmas at Kow’s house, and then a week in Cameron Highlands with my beloved family and baby, New Year’s at Kow’s, then working at SAM. I cannot wait.

I’m already embracing the holiday spirit.

Did I mention I just can’t wait?