bliss!

sun and books and loved ones and food and cool, soft bedsheets are all i need in life to feel happy.

but to feel REALLY happy, i need the opposite: dreary days plashed with gray and slush, tedious readings and work assignments, cruel deadlines, bad ratty food, and mercilessly cold rooms.

in short, i am trying to make every single day count. when i wake up, i rejoice that i am given another day to explore what's out there and also what's within myself - my strengths, idiosyncracies, virtues and weaknesses.

there are only 4 more weeks left (i fly on saturday may 17th back to singapore, arriving just in time on the 19th for mom's birthday!), and even though there will be final exams and essays and shipping/packing/storing to do, it'll be GOOD. we will enjoy slow breakfasts, movies, batcave gossip sessions, good books, day trips (hopefully to block island), spring clothes, cherry blossoms and daffodils.

p.s. the title of the post reminds me that i'm still on my quest to find a reliable lip balm that will work as well as Bliss's. mom passed her used Bliss lip balm to me 1.5 years ago, and i'm still using it everyday. it makes for a great primer for other lip balm/gloss. unfortunately Bliss has stopped producing the product. if anyone has recommendations - let me know!
p.p.s. ax, st and i went to the 80s party yesterday - spandex/leggings/headband/golden fun! the band (the Rock), was surprisingly good...they sounded like the real deal for the covers. too bad not many people showed up though.
p.p.p.s. yesterday i had a decent conversation with a stranger out on the grad center lawn about cantonese - more specifically, the linguistic problems of representing spoken cantonese and its relation to standard written chinese. spontaneous fun. also, he had blue eyes and an earnest, passionate air that reminded me of someone from a long time ago.