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I'm gonna send my submission to the RTHK/The Standard Short Story Competition 2006 tomorrow. I read this article online abt last year's competition receiving a record-breaking 800 entries in the junior and senior categories!! This is very disappointing because that means my chances are much lower than I thought. I don't know how many entries they got before when they were with the SCMP, but I came in co-3rd runner-up in 2004 (there was a 1st prize, a 1st runner-up, a 2nd runner-up, and two 3rd runners-up), so I thought there can't be THAT many entries. Now the task of winning seems much more daunting. How am I supposed to beat 400 people (that is if one estimates abt half of the entries are the junior category)? I don't think I'm gonna enter anymore if there are that many entries!!

I've been running on the treadmill now that there's a gym in our apartment building. I am literally in the last 3rd percentile worldwide when it comes to running. But I've actually not died yet so I think I got better stamina from all the tennis.

And I am officially very swamped... um, swamped and trying to be a singer, and write my short story, and go to the gym, and go to church, and... see Marie Antoinette and the Queen and the Prestige. Whatever, no biggie.

OH by the way, I am totally addicted to X-files rerun marathons while origami-ing on every Monday night from 11pm - 4am (which, I'm only up 'til like 3am, I sleep from 3am to 11am), sometimes Fridays, and right now it's Thursday and it's on, yay but I sometimes hate watching X-files reruns really late b/c it can get to be freaky. Like I had to not watch during that Brady Bunch house episode. It was kinda like the Shining! But a few months ago there was one of the funny episodes, and the local small-town sheriff was Luke Wilson and it was funny hahahaha... that's my favorite episode I guess... I sorta dislike the monster episodes most... the gov't conspiracy/alien ones used to be my favorite but they're maybe too serious, like sometimes you just want to watch a silly Buffy episode, not the ones about killing the "big bad." Anyway, yeah I like the funny X-files and ones that are kinda different, like the hallucination mushroom one, and the one that was like "Groundhog Day," those were good ones, and I think they were back-to-back. The one on right now is another small-town, log-cabin, sheriffs and rangers, and mysterious death ones. Sometimes I try to keep track of how many times Mulder has died. I think it's somewhere around 15, if you include misunderstandings.

I should NOT be blogging. What I should be doing now is threading tiny little needles with tiny little threads, then stringing them into tiny little cranes, adding a tiny little bead with a tiny little hole, then tying a tiny little knot. Repeat 175 times. It can make a girl crazy, lemme tell ya.