Thorny Devil's Graduation

Richard slept over last night, so we were playing 'general knowledge' quizzes online to try and get ourselves to fall asleep.

What is a Moloch?

(A) An Australian Animal

(B) A Korean Food

(C) A German Vehicle

(D) A place in France

Did you know that a Moloch is also called 'Thorny Devil' - which is an Australian Lizard. How cool is that? See, we learn something new. At first I read 'Horny Devil' and I kept laughing and shouting

moloch

moloch

moloch

... until I suddenly stopped and realise that calling 'it' 3 times might be a tribal ting'a'ma'git to actually summon something paranormal. Then my face went blank and I went completely silent for about a min...

@_@

Then Richard had to ruin my 'lost in space' mode by asking me 'What is Moloch LA', he uses 'LA' very frequent now - thou it really sounds weird with an African accent. Imagine this

"!XOBILE"

"Please do not yell in the Casino, LA"

BTW, Graduation wasn't as exciting as I thought it would be. The wind was blowing very strongly and the weather was just being a bitch. So we couldn't really take any pictures, cause everytime I stand outside - my cap flies away.

OH! and it was HORRIBLE actually. I was so nervous, hoping that I wouldn't fall down or embarrass myself - so I was rehearsing on what I should do. I kept telling myself this...

Shake his hands, Take the scroll, and Walk down.

And I kept repeating that in my head.. until... Something just HAD to go against what I rehears la! Here's what happened: I went up, shook the old man's hand - said 'Thank You' while he said 'Congratulations'.. well technically the next step was to take the scroll.. but NOOOO.. SOMEBODY wanted to say more than just 'CONGRATULATIONS'. I remember just thinking to myself 'SHIT, I DIDN'T PLAN FOR THIS'. So while he keeps asking me questions, I kept trying to walk away!! It was like this:

Old Man: What are your plans after studies?

Me: WORK [I actually raised my voice because I was nervous]

Old Man: Have you gotten a job?

Me: NO!! [In a voice that's like saying 'what do you think?']

*walks off to take my scroll*

IT WAS HORRIBLE! Now the chancellor is gonna think I'm like some kind of rude Chinese girl. Imagine all the other Chinese people, he wont want to talk to them anymore - and it's all my fault!! T_T

oh and you can watch the video at herts.ac.uk/ceremonies - you'll have to download RealPlayer thou. What I do is I open RealPlayer and just search for the link there instead. My ceremony is the Wednesday [Afternoon], you can just forward to 31mins of the video - cause besides watching me, the rest are really quite insignificant to you. hehe.

OK, it's sleep time @2am.

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Kat Lah.