Yes, it's my mummy's birthday and I plain forgot about it!!! It's only when I saw the large birthday cake she bought for herself in the fridge then I remembered....

I'm such a horrible daughter to forget about it!! Must have studied till I went sot already and forget all about dates except mon when my first paper starts...

But lucky I bought her a new eyeshadow palette and gave it to her right before I was imprisoned at home for mugging.

I haven't been out of the house since last sat and only went out to buy stationary yesterday. That's about 6 days at home!! All day long mug mug mug... and I am super slow in studying in the day for some reason (part of the reason is because of Thorpe la) , and that is why I end up doing all the mugging in the middle of the night.

My latest record?? 6.30am in the morning. And surprising, I feel that I can go on till 7am except that my mum is screaming for me to sleep.

I think if I have to fly to the other half of the world right now, I would not have a problem with time differences because my biological clock runs the timing there!! Shit!! I have to adjust my clock back in 2 days time or else u can see me dozing off in the middle of a paper, which is obviously NO GOOD!!

It has been 3 days of 6.30am already, and tonight, I promised I'll sleep at 12am-1am. No later than that!!

Anyway, I cut off the newspapers clippings with Thorpe's retirement and put it along with other news clipping I have about him. And I realised that I have quite a bit of him actually, all back in the Olympics 2004 days. There is a piece about him and Michael Phelps, who is the swimmer I will support now without Thorpe, him in 100m freestyle, and another piece of him when he was in town last year for IOC meeting. I will probably post it soon here.

And I kept a piece of him in my file so that I can look at him whenever I want. =)

And I realised that Yuxin's genes notes has his picture inside!!! Surprise Surprise!! It was among the section of growth hormones... and I am so happy!!! LOL... Thanks Yuxin!!!

Ok!!! Say I am too crazy over him. But let me be for this period of time, for when it's over, it ill be over.

And lastly, I read a piece of news online that he is planning to launch a tv career. Shit, I knew it. Once he retired, I know I will probably never see him on my tv again because he will be only appearing on Aussies' tv. I feel like telling Ian that "Why go TV?? TV not good. Come back to swimming!!" but I know that it's no use.

I am still coming to terms with his retirement, and right now I am more accepting to it than a few days before. Thanks to my friends who kept trying to console me!! Esp Zoe and Jul!! They are the ones who seems to really know how I feel...

Ok, better go and mug if I want to sleep at 12am tonight. Signing out.

Picture of birthday cake from http://www.gapingvoid.com/
Picture of Ian Thorpe from a yahoo group.