*blink* apparently i might be a british citizen and erm.. not have known it. if i'm reading the following correctly, that is:

7. If you are or your husband or wife is, a British citizen otherwise than by descent, your child born outside the United Kingdom (or the qualifying territories (see Note C) if born on or after 21 May 2002) will automatically be a British citizen when he or she is born. But your child will be a British citizen by descent unless you are, or your husband or wife is, a British citizen in one of the types of service listed in paragraph 16. You do not need to take any official action when your child is born to confirm his or her status, but if you want, for example, to apply for a British passport for your child, you will need to produce certain documents (see paragraph 19). from here

how very unexpected.

so, have just made a call to the UK to order a copy of my father's birth certificate, and i shall trot down to the british high commission one of these days to see if i can get a passport. just like that. how amazing.

i still think i'm reading something wrongly. or they'll have an age restriction or something. *gloomily* there always is.

jumped at 9:00 AM

hm. i know from the last few posts that it seems that i've been all doom & gloom recently, but good things have been happening, so here's a token post towards them.

1. met nora for an extremely long shopping trip last week, had loads of fun, and finally got my pair of sandals! okay, so it turned out to be two pairs of sandals, but still. *grin* had loads of fun, and finally laid eyes on the guy she's been bending our ears about recently. *grin* not what i would've expected, but he had nice eyes. :) oh, and she told me that the first time she met me she thought i was a stuck up bitch. *wounded look* but oh well. haha.

2. jane's managed to get me a short term, (read: 1 week) data entry job that i'm pretty grateful for, especially since it lets me put off thinking about what i have to do for a while.

3. spent a long day with peiyi at pacific coffee at citilink, we sat there til we really should've started paying rent, talking abt loads of things, (as usual). trying to spend more time with her before she buggers off to the UK in a scant 3 weeks. then had pasta mania at scotts (*slurp*), then went to toni & guys for my stylist to look at her hair, and we both ended up getting free wash & blow dries. though since we went home straight after there wasn't really much point. *grin*

4. terrence came over last night when i was all upset, and bearing chocolate, which is always welcome, and we spent a coupla hours talking and watching my dog try to get his fluffy little paws on some of my, let me repeat that, my chocolate. which he didn't. nyeh. *giggle*

so, it hasn't all been bad. :)

but it could yet be better.

jumped at 4:14 AM

just got back from ngee ann, the second visit this week, managed to collect most of my reference letters, the two of which i was allowed to read were rather glowing, so i'm going to cross my fingers and hope some scholarship money comes my way, doubtful as it may be. had a short yelling match with my mother, and a long discussion with my bro, and it seems that we can't afford the honours year as well, and if i only get a BSc without honours i might as well just go into being a lab tech right away, honestly.

so. it looks like it might be the march 2005 intake. *sigh* i'm never going to get out of this damn place.

was pretty upset yesterday, but well, my life has been pretty screwed up lately, i guess i should have expected that nothing would go according to plan. right now i'm thinking that i might as well just go into NTU, get a BSc, work as a lab tech, get an HDB flat eventually, blah blah blah, and get stuck here forever. it's just too much of a struggle. but, i guess, give me a few days and i'll be slightly more optimistic, might go and apply for a perm job for a year or two, try and get up some money. god i hate this.

jumped at 9:55 PM