i think i shall refrain from making funny faces at cameras.
anyway, my brother's hilarious. he suggested i buy a large sheet, dump my laundry in the middle of it and tie up the four ends into a bundle. then put it on a stick and march off to the laundry room. like a tramp or watever u call it.. u noe those u always see in books. haha.
and then when we saw this mini straw container he suggested i buy it.. so i asked "wat'm i gonna put inside?" and he said "u could keep a pet snake". rofl.
my shopping attempts today were rather unfruitful. ikea's fun to walk through though.. their bedrooms are always so nicely furnished. and makes you feel like getting a new house/redecorating ur room. i find that i like a lot of useless things. like moodlighting, which looks oh so pretty but is really quite impractical. so sad.
and queensway. man. i've never felt so clueless before. i wonder how i went shopping for shoes last time. oh well. i really feel like i need more time for shopping but with work.. how?? maybe i'll disappear off to orchard during lunch to walk around la. then i'll end up eating on the go again.. which isn't fantastic given that my dinners are usually not of the sit-down-and-eat variety due to time constraints.
decided to put up two examples of wat i wrote for the p1s.
no. 1: mad hatter suggests baking a huge biscuit for a table cloth so if they spill anything on it, they can just eat up the biscuit. march hare doesn't like the idea cos the table cloth will disappear in no time.
no. 2: in an abandoned garden, there are talking fruits and veges. one day the tomatoes roll out of bed to go to sch, and meet their strawberry fren on the way. she didn't eat her breakfast properly so had chocolate all over her (choc-coated strawberry haha:) and then at sch they bullied the dragonfruit cos it looks weird. so they got scolded. (i decided i must try to inculcate some values/educate them on wat a dragonfruit looks like)
so.. today's dinner didn't turn out to be rg gep farewell after all, sadly.. oh well. wat to do:( grr. but it was still fun anyway:) we had v gd food! waha:) love their stingray.. the chilli is fantastic.. esp with the lime.
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pam on top, frm left to right - me jane tinky
anyway, i don't know why but everyone at work had the mistaken impression that i injured my leg. hmm. oh well. it was nice they actually asked though. and i was very happy i made the correct decision to go to bugis to look for earrings! yeahh.. i didn't know i would find something which satisfied me so perfectly but i had the impression i would find what i was looking for:) yay.. but they were so pretty i almost couldn't bear to give them away.. but i think they're more chris than me la:)
yay and tmr's friday! yippee:D it's rather funny, when i don't work, i'll slack and wish i had something to do. when i work, i will want to slack and also will realise i actually have quite a number of things to do which i wish i had done when i was slacking. like wat ting was saying yesterday. ah well. humans.. reverse psychology.
i think powell's book is so right. at least, i think i read it frm powell's book. it said that a person is always changing, because that is growth. there is no static self. so you may have met your friend just a few weeks ago, and you meet the same friend again, but he/she is not the same person. and neither are you. interesting huh. i found it to be true today. or maybe it's a matter of perspective.
i remembered, when i was in sec 1, i used to avoid going out alone with someone else (and i'm not talking about guys). afraid that i wouldn't have things to talk about, afraid of awkward silences (which still happen now actually), afraid the other person would be really bored. but sometimes, not going out in a group is good. get to talk about more personal things.
anyway, watched charlie n choc factory! yay:) haha. oh, i didn't go to work today:D big grin. no minutes-taking today! wahahaha. so i decided i must take advantage of this one free weekday and go watch show.
now about the show. it's really quite twisted. i mean, willy wonka/johnny depp is so so sadistic. although i'm sure there's a better word to describe him. positively evil sometimes.. looking pleased when the children get disposed of one by one. and the guy who played the oompa loompa.. man.. i really wish they'd chosen a better-looking actor. it was quite painful having to look at ugly little men for the movie duration. this is why actors/actresses must look gd, one pays money to look at them for ~2hrs, evidently some quality is expected..
and i also thought that the oompa loompas' songs and dances were very commercialised. when i read the book, i kind of imagined simple singing and folk-dance-type of dance.. not rock and techno and mass-dance-type of dance. the edible grass field + waterfall thingy looked kind of fake. but maybe it was supposed to.
besides that i thought the child actors were very good.. charlie (freddie highmore).. mike teavee was funny.. although his sneering expression reminded me of draco malfoy haha. and the chocolate! wahh. i was telling chris i wanted to go eat choc instead of ice cream aft tt.. and i think tim burton has a fetish for patterns and precision. the factory, the trucks going out of the factory, the bikes delivering the posters, all had a perfect pattern. quite appealing in a way.
and although johnny depp's sadism was a tad freaky sometimes (and his annoying little giggle and hairstyle and makeup) he was still quite amusing at times. though i stand by my opinion that he makes a better pirate than anything else. ohh.. the way he clapped when the puppets caught fire was so funny/terrible.. the shocked looks on the kids' and parents' faces were hilarious..
three fav quotes frm him in the movie:
1. in the field/waterfall room:
"Everything in this room is eatable. In fact, even I am eatable. But that, my dear children, is called cannibalism which is in fact frowned upon in most societies."
2. when one of the kids asks wat the top/best prize is: "the best of prize is a .. surprise!"
3. upon discovering a silver hair during his semi-annual haircut: "And in that moment I realised; 'I must find a... hair (heir)'".
more funny quotes:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367594/quotes
and i had a very good time with chris today! yay:)
today's class gathering had the best turn out ever.. well not that we have had many to start with. but still, 17 out of 25 is fantastic. the only pple not there: prc scholars, ray, matthew, shaun, yonglai, candice. after reading that powell book, i find that with the class, we're like maybe at the fourth level of communication which is quite sad.
fifth level: cliched conversation e.g. how're you (and standard reply: fine)
fourth: talking about other people, wat they've been doing (reporting facts abt others)
third: sharing one's ideas/judgement
second: sharing one's emotions ("gut-level" communication)
first: peak communication (total honesty and openness)
so, u noe, we talk about wat's happening in our lives currently i.e. unis and etc.. it's just so superficial in a way. or maybe i expect too much. i find that anything less than maybe a level 3 is unfulfilling (and i get bored really easily, i need a change of attitude, and i seem to have said this before). but like andrew said, i guess we're not that gd enuff frens to progress to that level. oh well. it gets tedious after a while.
anyway, today i woke up to find that the state of my back hadn't improved much and i still felt the most exquisite pain if i twist in certain ways. luckily there's mommy to help massage and buy yoko-yoko haha. hopefully tmr it'll be fine if not i'll be even more unhappy at work.
i don't mind admitting that i'm in intense pain right now. when i shift from position to position. crap. i mean, i don't mind moderate aching but this is really too much! i should've stopped when i had to and not pretended everything was alright. bah. alvin was so helpful, one of his suggestions: "maybe you ought to gain some weight so you won't be so bony" he's such a hoot.. but that doesn't help when it's so painful! augh. and i think i'll have two "wristbands" tmr, just wait and see. and first time i've seen deborah in outside clothes. impressive:p and rather different, i must say.
anyway.. ml is hilarious.. she made them line up outside the library and wave at me.. and they had to file in and say "gd afternoon jie jie". rofl. then this guy was taking forever to choose a book to borrow so first she went "u have exactly 23 seconds left to borrow your book!" and later, exasperated "you're not choosing a wife u noe.. just a book!" rofl.
and i was quite annoyed when tst popped into the library and told me to -ahem- wear a jacket because parents could see the library from outside and one must always wear a jacket when in sight of parents. right. it happens to be like a sauna in the library, in case you didn't know.. of course i'm exaggerating, but stuffy air doesn't really go with jackets, unless your dearest wish is for me to suffocate. but there, i'm being uncharitable, she's not a bad person. i think. i wonder exactly which hr person told wtc that she ought to dye her hair back to black.. another ridiculous thing. at least she said jc hasn't said anything so she doesn't care.
ahh.. sharks. so painful. hope it subsides by tmr if not i'm done for.