Sunday, September 19, 2004

Sunday sux cos Monday comes next

nth much to say today.. morning did more maths and chionged my research essay.

How to do a research essay in 1 hour:
1. be very familiar with ctrl-c and ctrl-v
2. take a bunch of text, rearrange, change words with microsoft thesaurus.
3. www.essaydepot.com for formats and ideas and..essays
4. ta-da. your very own research essay.

the research essay turned out like shit but who cares? its endang.

halfway doing when to cook up some lunch. fried some bacon,egg and ham and baked some french fries. the bacon was damn oily. Super-Size Me, here i come.

after essay done spent abt 1/2 hour printing daryl's study notes, my 2 page essay+1 single sentence page "acknowledgements" and copying the history notes.

next on the to-do list was car washing. my sister got nothing to do so came wif me to wash. she thought it was "fun". i locked her in the car to do interior but told her not to mess it up cos i'm the one who'll get screwed. Halfway through it rained. sux. finally finished after about 45 min. five dollars earned. "white cars are harder to wash cos their stains are more obvious"

time flied and went out wif family for dinner. came home and remembered still got chem and history hmwk to do. and the stupid cme project that saras forced us to pass up tomorrow. oh well. die then die lor. life rawks.



1 comment:

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