Panthera Sapiens Ellipsis: The Blog

I'm ill. Quite badly so, too... Last Saturday I began coughing and had a sore throat by the night time, which caused me to lack sleep rather and then I developed a headache and a fever. Herr Robson was also sick, with similar symptoms; and I know of a large number of other people who were also sick. We blame the weather, which has been rather bipolar: hot in the mornings, cloudy in the afternoons, and pouring in the evenings and nights. I suppose I should be very happy about the pouring, but I really can't enjoy anything when I'm having coughing fits every now and then. Though I'm thankful that the sore throat went away on Monday and the headache and fever with it, the cough remains and has progressed steadily. I now cough about once every five or six minutes; every now and then, it's a coughing fit that wracks my entire frame (when I'm lying down, this can actually wake me up as well as shake the bed) and sounds rather like a sort of honk, and sometimes creates...

I moved into my new room yesterday, with the help of Tee Four's god-grandfather or real grandfather (I didn't ask) who has a car. He was very nice, but it reminded me that my grandfolks and a cousin are still back in So Hour possibly suffering chikugunya... well, that is, if it isn't actually dengue, but it's hard to tell. For some reason that sentence reminded me that a friend has Rich 4 and I should ask for it sometime, and also that I really don't have the kind of time that would allow me to spend hours deciding the monetary fate of little cutesy characters on a virtual game board, even if it IS extremely and oddly fun. My camera is working again! I realised it only runs on alkaline batteries, which turn out to actually be different from regular batteries in that they provide a higher output. I'm considering getting myself a few rechargeables now so I don't have to buy myself new batteries every now and then, though Herr Robson is likely to start gloating...

Well. The last post published badly, I must say; the changes I made didn't get saved and so it ends badly, or rather it doesn't end at all. But then again, you can probably guesstimate how it would have ended anyway so I'm not going to bother fixing it up. I'm feeling rather all-over-the-place at the moment; I wish I were in my new room (I got the keys to it on Thursday) but I can't move without assistance and I have nobody around to offer that since Darth Bo is away at his aunt's place and the roommate's not around--though even if he were, I wouldn't like to ask him for help with this. Of course, I would have had assistance if Brain Rink were a little more dependable, but she isn't. Right now, however, there's a lot of things to think about and worry; for one, the folks in So Hour are coming down with some sort of strain of dengue: at last notice, my grandpa and grandma and a cousin had it, though I haven't called for status updates yet. For...

So, school's started, and I'm getting all swept along in schoolwork and various stuff. Add to this that Darth Bo, being very active in the Campus Crusade, is transmitting this activity to me by seeming osmosis, plus the fact that I have several little personal projects going on at the moment, and now you have a quite frantic me--though, I suppose, to the casual observer I look exactly like a relaxed University-goer sitting calmly and typing out a blog entry while shaking legs. I also recently decided I want a new body shape, as far as my decisions ever go, and Just Cash (who apparently is a gym bunny in addition to his other achievements) says I'm at just the right weight to do it since I'm 0.1 on the BMI scale away from overweightness. Unfortunately I have no idea what to do in a gym, and not being a gym bunny myself, I'm rather intimidated by gym bunnies. Just Cash, though, thinks there's nothing to be afraid of--while I freely admit to feelings of deep and ab...

I continue from the last post; Darth Bo came back to the room just as I was typing so I returned him the LAN cable, which makes it sound as if he were imposing on me when it's really the other way 'round... In any case he's out at classes and I'm in the room so I'm using it now. In any case... Well, the Gorillas are moving, and I (along with a couple hundred thousand other people) will miss them greatly. But the eulogies can come later, since for now I'm going to detail the activities of that week in KL, maybe follow it up with a detail of what I've been doing in Spore for the past few days, and then I'll get to the eulogies. This is just so you know where to scroll to if you want to skip all the dry details, or any of them. I arrived in KL on Monday night, having left the University around 1pm since I had to return the room keys to Darth Bo (who was very intermittently in the room then). The bus trip was nothing special since the bus rides back to KL ar...

I'm quite incredibly tired these days. I blame school... it's the second day already and I'm already dozing off in classes. It's been quite a week, at least since the last post... No, wait. It's been, ye gads, two weeks since the last post. Time certainly does fly, and I've just given myself more reason to say so: it's two hours since I typed the opening sentence and this is only the what, the third? Darn Maple for being so distracting; the Coconut passed me a private server file the other day and I'm already level 39 after a few hours; unfortunately the private server has bugs and I keep on losing data: I was level 58 awhile ago. Well, at any rate it's been busy days, and not too happy ones either; I'm still without a fixed address either here or in Malaysia. The University still hasn't given me a room, and I'm getting increasingly pessimistic about my chances of ever getting one, since it's apparently been three intakes and everybod...