I was listenin to Goo Goo Doll's 'What I learnt about Economics, Opinion, Arts and Commerce' and I would like to share with you all this very unique special song in the album. Its very unlike of GGDs to sing this kinda song, but its a lovely poem if it wasnt a song.

"Acoustic #3"

They painted up your secrets
With the lies they told to you
And the least they ever gave you
Was the most you ever knew

And I wonder where these dreams go
When the world gets in your way
What's the point in all this screaming
No one's listening anyway

Your voice is small and fading
And you hide in here unknown
And your mother loves your father
Cause she's got nowhere to go

And she wonders where these dreams go
Cause the world got in her way
What's the point in ever trying
Nothing's changing anyway

They press their lips against you
And you love the lies they say
And I tried so hard to reach you
But you're falling anyway

And you know I see right through you
Cause the world gets in your way
What's the point in all this screaming
You're not listening anyway

How's tt? isnt tt juz beautiful? some of u might hav heard it on Dawson's Creek or somethin coz its been featured there quite a couple of times and it got its popularity from the series. when u juz hear the acoustic guitar strummin wif John Rzeznik's smooth, hurt voice, it juz makes u feel empty within as well. go try listenin to it. i know downloadin from kazaa in times like these r quite risky, but if u wanna, go ahead. its an excellent song.

Played soccer after a long while in school, so i had become rather rusty with my goalkeepin skills. i let in quite a couple of odd goals but other than tt, i think today's play was quite competitive n high level. we were playin mostly wif sch team players, so u could b amazed wit the precision n the speed they play at. i need to start gettin used to tt again. if everythin goes well, then the 25th will b havin most prob their last match against 26th after the J1's promos r done. time to see wat i can do wit my new boots.

had to go off a little early coz my sch mag photo takin session was at 0930hrs. i quickly changed, but later found out i had to change to PE kit anyway. i was the first one there n the lady there were takin single close up shot of everyone so she did the same wit me b4 the rest for tt session arrived. after tt, we went to the area outside LT3 for some 'students chillin' under the trees' shot. haha, who does tt in SA? so they got couple of us to juz sit down n pretent like we're talkin n all. initially i was in the far background tryin to look like havin an idea wit Jonathan Chua n Meenal. Then they took me off n substituted me with Sunny with two Arts fac girls i still dunno the names of. once i sat down, the first comment from one the girl was like 'I like your nose.' n i was like, 'huh? oh? erm, thanx.' i mean, how many stranger compliments u first thing? then she went on lookin at me which made me real uncomfortable n she was like 'u got brown eyes as well' n i was like... ermm... yea... haha, i'm not good at receivin compliments but its nice when ppl does it to ya. i'm often told bt my eyes n nose but everytime someone else says it, it makes u feel differently. then i had to pretend like i was talkin wif the two girls like i'm some athelete (yea rite!) n they took some close up shots as well as normal shots. the last pic was kidna cool, coz we all huddled up n we were lookin down at the camera. i think tt one is original n i hope it'll look nice.

had to miss phy lect coz of tt. so changed once again n ate lunch. then the rest was rather monotonous day. normal lessons, etc, etc. today's wednesday so we all went back rather early, me gettin some rest coz of the physical rigours of not havin played soccer in a long while.

n.. yea, i'm here!

i was surfin n checkin on university stuff juz now, n its gonna b rather hectic plannin all the applications. i hav to make a decision on which uni i wanna apply under Early Decision. wats Early Decision u might ask. well, it means exactly tt. only tt there r some rules. the advantage is, if u get accepted under ED, then u'll know where u're goin by end of yr, n dont need to bother applyin to any other schs coz u're admitted already. however, the bad thing is, u can only apply for one ED, which makes choosin rather difficult. right now, i've got Cornell, Carnegie Mellon and U Penn for ED consideration. Cornell, no need to explain, Ivy League. Carnigie Mellon, top computer science school. heard IBM hires high percentage of their rookies from either MIT or Carnegie Mellon. n its in NY! U Penn, top business, tho i'm not sure i wanna do business. mayb MBA later on, but not now. so, its like, huh? which one? out of the three, i think the one wif higher chance of gettin in is U Penn. but i prefer CM or Cornell. but those two r real competitive. n wats worse, these r like top schs, n my grades nor SAT score isnt gd enough either. i probably fall under like bottom 15 or 10% of their applicants. so its like, u noe, quite risky application. but everythin's a gain. if i get accepted, cool! no hassle for other applications. if i dont, nothin to lose. so its a shot worthy to take. UC Berkeley's normal applications r durin november too, so gotta watch out for tt. the rest r mostly by 1 jan stuff, so december's gonna b quite busy for me.

lalala... gotta discuss these stuff with Mr Mannan tomorrow. kk, gonna go for dinner now. n then do my maths again.