hum. i think i got more tanned (or burnt) today with 3 hours of walking/blading than 3 hours at wild wild wet on wed. but of cos it was threatening to rain on wed. and i have 2 knee-guard-strap-lines. quite gross. i hope i don't start peeling.
but it was fun! i think i did quite okay, given it was at least 8 years since I last bladed (and bladed for the 1st time) and 4 years since I last ice-skated (and also skated for the first time). but i think i'm v slow. bleah. unfit. haha. was really really thirsty after that though. and my legs were feeling weird.
ohhh and it was such a coincidence to meet darryl at the mrt:) heh if i hadn't been early i wouldn't have seen him. like, a few minutes after i came out of the control station, he came into the station. reminds me of how i saw yingheng while waiting for lyd/pam to go to wild wild wet.
anyway hope i have a nice day tmr! church n fellowship n prob going out w church pple again..
heh.. saw my churchmates in sch u and suddenly felt this stab of schoolsickness. yes, i know it's a self-concocted word. but well, wish I were still wearing my sch u. miss those days. days of not-wearing-sch-u makes one feel very old. and pining to turn back time.
and it's funny how you appreciate people/things much more when you know you have a limited amount of time with them. like wat peiying says, talking to pple u'll miss, remembering spore, ... i think that is exactly why i didn't enjoy my us trip so much. knowing that i'll be there for the next 4 years just makes me wanna stay here and revel in the delights of home. and sometimes it's really really really so much easier to stay here. okay i think when i get there i'll feel different (i had better) but right now... hmm.
owch. feeling bit battered. today was fun though:) although i was late. as usual. oops. not my fault they were fumigating.. walked frm somerset to city hall. haha. stopped at this fashion on the way for some aircon (and they have a nice skirt! though i don't really think i'll wear that sort of thing hmm.. i could though.. hmm somemore..) and ser msged to tell me she was starving and called me a "tasty dino"..
lunch at bk then mrt to pasir ris. where we waited for our dearest candice who forgot her phone and had to go home for it and fiona. for 1/2hr! i told ser they wud come at 2pm and i was right (of cos). and ser was complaining "why do u hafta be right" rofl. not my fault.
n wild wild wet! heh. i prefer fantasy island. but with the accidents, guess it wasn't possible to continue. and i'm just a wee bit more tanned i think:D haha. luckily the rain held off until we left..
i'm glad i get some time at home tomorrow. or so i think. hmm.
"the world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page" - koped from hon's blog. interesting huh. it sounds familiar somehow.
okay. time for post on us embassy. mom gave me a lift there (happily)
and then i saw this line of people outside. in the sun.
took a while to register that it was the line to get into the embassy.
clar joins the queue. while fending off various flies and mosquitoes. ugh. and melting in the sun.
finally! after half an hour, get to go thru security check. and they take away my handphone. i'm sure there're going to be detonating devices in my phone..
take queue number. sit down and wait for my turn at counter 2, the only counter for walk-in visa applicants. heh so many pple got mistaken, cos the standing queue was very short, but the queue actually continued to the sitting pple. hopefully that makes sense. ah well.
so this lady sat down beside me, and then another guy sat down beside her after asking if that was the queue.. and she said yeah, it's like musical chairs (cos half the queue was standing and half sitting) so they started chatting.. and then later she asked "where're u studying?" and he said "stanford" and i was like "!!" haha.. talk about coincidence.. he's a transfer though.
and then later while i was at the counter (after one hour of waiting), i turned around and saw jane! !! lovely surprise:) anyway so waited with her, went to lunch at nydc.. yum:D love their posh spice baked rice. i still think i prefer rice to pasta:p oh well.
went home, happened to look out of the window at the bus stop at shell, and saw a fren. like, woah. wat are the odds that i meet 3 pple by coincidence today. oh we saw hanyan xiuming and xuanming in orchard too..
okay i need to get myself out of this happily-slacking mode. sigh.
i am very alarmed. i come home, check my email and find "stanford - forms overdue!" in my mailbox. it almost gave me a heart-attack, i must admit. my first thought was that their system screwed up. then when chris said something about forms being un-editable after submission, i realised something i forgot earlier on. cos i -ahem- accidentally wrote 12pm instead of 12am and asked them to change my forms, and they probably didn't do the amendment properly. @#$%^&*. i think i shouldn't have bothered, then there wudn't be so much trouble. crap. i hope it didn't compromise my "housing, roommate, advisor and IHUM assignments" which "have already started". well done..
on a happier note, today was a day of coincidences! but i need to go nap before i collapse so i shall blog abt the us embassy and coincidences later
i hate visas. i had better have everything and bring everything tmr if not i'm going to be very very annoyed. and it's just the start of doing everything on my own, like i was telling fiona today when doing the cashier's order. guess that's what the asean/prc scholars have been doing huh. hmm.
anyway, watched madagascar finally! it's quite cute la, though not -that- funny.. love the penguins:D the lemurs are funny too! and it was great catching up w adeline.. haven't seen her in ages. she's still so full of nonsense sometimes, some things never change.