ooh i had a very good day today:)
unfortunately i have taken to the habit of leaving the house late. which makes me late for appointments: oops. but that was partly cos i was regaling melvyn with tales of my escapades in the heartland shops/wet-market.
i must detail my adventures at the above-mentioned places another time.. it's really quite amusing. although, of course, it wasn't exactly very amusing on monday, but the rest of the days when i was in a better mood, i could laugh at myself.
anyway.. today! lunch w lyd pam tinky kahli. in order of arrival, sort of. this is like the 2nd time i've done this.. walk into a restaurant telling the waiters/waitresses i'm looking for friends, wander around in search of them, realise with a start that they're not there yet! (or i've gone blind or sth, choy) and back out of the restaurant to call the pple who're supposed to be there. the first time it was with church pple for the twins' farewell dinner.
okay so we had a fun time.. pam's forever full of nonsense.. she and lyd were just itching to eat up kahli's share (kahli was rather late). there were a number of quotable quotes, but i'm lazy to go check my notebk.
ohh!! kahli and her pink beads!! haha. she didn't want to give lyd her "bubble things" cos -ahem- "these are taoist beads! i went to the temple to get them!"
when questioned on why they were pink, "i dropped them into a bucket of pink paint"
later, elaborating on the pains which she took to get these oh-so-precious beads, "i queued for 2 days on my knees at the temple"
pam "why not on your nephew? so biased!"
sigh.. but it was funny cos it was so silly:)
went to get my shower gel.. and marks n spencers to get stuff for tll pple. and birkenstocks to look at shoes! they're prettier than other comfort shoe brands, but more expensive.. like twice the price! sigh.
then to toa payoh to look for stuff.. was quite tired by then actually. wanted to sleep. haha. and it didn't help that the things i was carrying were all so heavy.. poor me.
and i finally decided to get my butt down to novena. was still looking around trying to find earrings for rachel/something whaley for christine. unfortunately it was to no avail, so they shall have to wait.
treading the familiar way that i've traced and retraced the past 2 months. comfortable in a way. but no, i didn't feel like pulling out the timesheet to ask fernn to sign haha. i was just kinda afraid it'd rain and then i wouldn't be able to walk to newton, but in the end i was late anyway so had no time to walk.
was anticipating shocked/surprised looks at my reappearance. no one at inner recept. pushed open the staff door.. ohh only debbie's there.. ey having class and wtc doing cover class. oh well. nvm at least i got to see zee later for a while heh. haha poor debbie's left all alone writing! maybe the choc biscuits will cheer her (and the rest) up though:)
oh phyllis' shocked look when she walked past and saw me was v funny:) then i popped into tlu to give rachel her pigs and tim-tam (which i had to go to cold storage for cos ntuc didn't have). eng seng was still around. when i look at him i think luohan. hahaha. christine's fault.
followed rachel to library. i'm kinda glad i don't have to tidy it up anymore. it got a bit boring after a bit. after returning the books, rachel decided that they were too lan4 to leave in the library so time to dump it in the lousy books box! ahaha.
pushed past the mirror door.. it was fun to see christine's and shang tyng's shocked looks:) and christine shout "have you packed?" at me thru the door. haha. so charlene opened the door for me and i gave them their choc rolls.
i really don't know how i managed to spend like 50mins there and not realise it. maybe cos of the interruptions of my phone (sms alert) and call from kai-lyn (whereby christine yelled "7pm!" and "newton!" and "dress nicely cos u're going out later!" at her when i was answering kai's qns). and call frm charlene upstairs (i can remember her extension by now, haha).
actually, i only realised i was late when christine and shang tyng asked me wat time i was supposed to go and !!! it was 6.55pm!! ahh. well done, clar. oh and i probably inconvenienced poor shang tyng quite a bit by koping her chair haha. oops.
anyway, time to go.. christine said she was going to trail me, i have no idea why. so i said byebye to debbie n phyllis and went out to paris 4 w cc to find wtc to take her dinner order. n after that byebye to christine and then to rachel.
and dinner! yumyumyum my stingray. haha. i was late. oops. a lot of hilarity, cheukka always says the funniest things. "are there cartwheels in ballet?"
kai-lyn hums part of waltz of flowers tune and -gestures- "cartwheel!"
rofl
oh and cheukka doesn't like chicken cos it comes with bones. something to that effect.
okay now i'm lazy to elaborate, shall go write my own diary.
this is very bad. i can't remember if it happened every night (okay maybe i'm in denial) but i know for certain, last night i was panicking about how many days are left and how my packing is still half-past six. at least today i got down to a little more packing since i stayed at home. and i started reading old school! i think i'm terrible at lit hmm, can't seem to analyse poems very well. or maybe i'm just too lazy (over-used excuse).
like i was telling darryl last night, sometimes i still wish i'd chosen to stay here, but actually i think once i get there i'll have a whale of a time (haha, whale). at least i certainly hope so. have so far remained blissfully ignorant with regard to career choices in the past few months after the state of no-scholarship-ness. weird to have to try to start thinking about it again. or start thinking about anything to do with school, actually.
i was going to visit rg and rj this week before leaving but well. inertia got the better of me? i know i'm too lazy to walk frm bishan mrt to rj. haha, this is why i need a gd pair of walking shoes which i have yet to get. and rg.. bit weird, i don't think i'll have anything much to talk about also except "how're u prepared? excited?". i guess i'll go back during first week of sch nxt year.
and i thought my nick was supposed to inform pple of my flight and all so i wouldn't have to keep telling pple 9.15am!! sometimes it still doesn't work. oh well.
yay i hope tomorrow will be a fun day:) seems quite promising anyway.
went out with rachel today! was good to see her:) there's nothing like seeing people in person. as compared to talking online or emailing or watever. i think i shall visit tll on thurs. though that also means i have to buy stuff before that.. maybe i'll buy after lunch w lyd pam tinky~
march of the penguins is cute! but the soundtrack is really annoying. esp the singer singing english songs! man. i wanted to get up and bash the speakers. anyway.. slightly-grown baby emperor penguins are cute! haha. so downy and fluffy. and they waddle around looking like puffs of fur. and penguins sliding around on their tummies and clumsily falling over and all.. haha. so amusing.
oh the penguins smacking each other with their flippers reminded me of the madagascar penguins! i love the madagascar penguins! they're hilarious. i want ALL the penguin clips. heh. not that i've bothered going to look for them, but nvm.
uh. lemme see. tcc is so lovely! but very expensive. sigh. the real food, that is. i guess one can go there and splurge once in a while.
and pool! rachel's actually not as bad as she claimed. i haven't played pool in a long time i think. the last time was probably with ser.
and last monday class today.. i think bruises are definitely going to appear tmr. i also think deborah's right (i -think- she was the one who said so), sufian is a bit hard on poor white belts like me. but he does teach quite well.
alright i guess i should go and do something constructive. oh introsem mailing came today! there's nothing like receiving mail frm stanford to make you feel more excited.. if not it kinda feels like you've been forgotten. haha. maybe i just like getting mail/sending mail.
I HATE PACKING!!!!!!!! ugh. i want to whine and whine and whine and whine but everyone's overseas already:( poor clar.
haha. anyway, i'm so tired, and it's not like i haven't slept enough. last night was like 0030 - 0700 (i'm still hoping by this week i can wake up later and enjoy extra sleep). then i took a nap just now 1700 - 1900. and now i'm very tired. this thing is taking a toll on me man.
had a really lovely surprise at church, bible class teacher(s) organised a sort of farewell party for me. suddenly i'm so dua pai haha. and the scrapbook was so sweet! even though i wasn't supposed to open it until on the plane, hmm. too bad. haha. i think i really don't see leaving as such a big deal until other people make a big deal out of it. then i start to realise.
maybe hk's right, i tend to be a buffer and make things less serious than they seem. gd and bad pts, of course.
well anyway, off to sim lim for MORE shopping. i realised the inadequacy of my previous research, given that i didn't know built-in mic doesn't equal to mic output coming out thru webcam cable, there usually is another extra cable. so we tramped all over trying to look for either 1. usb-sound stereo plug/jack-in/watever you call it converter or 2. usb headset+ mic or 3. webcam + inbuilt mic with all usb plugs.
bah in the end didn't buy anything, cos not sure if they're mac-compatible. i didn't know apple was so annoying. but bro says the trade-off for virus-free and crash-free computers is worth it. i guess so.
and later when we got home and i did more research, found out:
1. mac messenger doesn't support webcamming
2. iChat doesn't support usb webcam (i.e. must buy the iSight, which is US$149)
3. iChat uses AIM
4. basically, webcamming with macs is a whole lot more problematic than with pcs
so luckily we didn't get anything. i shall just get that logitech desktop mic.
okay i hope i'm still making sense.
then, i finally lugged my suitcase out. and started packing. i understand why siewjin and sarah didn't start packing that early. anyway, and to my horror! there is NO way i'm going to fit everything into one suitcase. that's the first problem. i suppose desperation will give me the ability to handle 2 suitcases of probably more than 50kg (combined weight).
2nd problem, jiunhaur has informed me there are NO lifts in the dorms! i'm dead. i'm hoping there'll be some very strong guys around to help me if not i'll probably be stuck sleeping on the grass. and i'm also hoping some nice singaporean can come fetch us from the airport. haha.
and i'm really so tired.
sleep.