Dear Elle Fanning....

I wish I had your fashion sense when I was 12...
I know I didn't.  Not even close!

Countdown to the exams!

In less than a week I will be taking my first two exams in graduate school.  Although there are numerous sample exams in our library, I still can't help but be scared of the unknown.  What would the exam cover?  What if it's the topic I forgot to review?  What if they grade exams differently here in Singapore?  How many more cups of Starbucks can I afford? Yes, Indocafe just doesn't do it!  Besides, my friend's sister passed the medical board exam in one try because she reviewed in a nearby Starbucks.  I am still convinced it is the magnificent brew that helped her :P.  Oh well, I guess one can only study, pray, and gulp coffee as much...

INVICTUS

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

-William Ernest Henley