hakuna matata

thoughts since coming back

weird that lyd's not around, she's usually the one who calls me to go out. got pretty bored within two days (even though i had barney and peiying's wedding to go for the day i returned!) and almost sank into slight depression thinking about how disconnected i am from my sg friends since i'm not even sure if they're on the same cell phone etc. silly me though, it wasn't that hard to contact people. so i've spent much of the week meeting people, tomorrow's my only "free" day. which i am contemplating going shopping but i bet i'll be too lazy. it is really boring getting on a bus to go to town (or any of the bigger shopping malls) cos all the buses use the same route for at least 60% of the trip! :( sigh. i think i need to find an exciting book to read..

anyway, singapore is changing an awful lot. i got off the bus at queen street terminal today to get to bugis junction, passed by bugis village and there were all these clothes shops i hadn't seen before! and then i get out of bugis village and find myself in this brand new spanking huge shopping mall i hadn't even HEARD of! and that's saying something since new malls are always announced.. or so i think. anyhow, i discover this japanese food street thing. tis kinda cool, albeit a little on the more expensive side. they claim to fly in fish from tsukiji. hmm.

hilarious quotes from cheukka:
her marveling at my shopping stamina - "i can last two hours at most. after that, i start seeing blurs (instead of clothes)"

background: my mom's going to relief teach for the month of august (or something) and she was afraid that i wouldn't have anything to eat for lunch when she's teaching. i'm like, don't be ridiculous, #1 i can cook, #2 i can go out and eat. so i was telling cheukka about it and she said, "wow, you're so practical/problem-solving" and i was totally confused as to how she concluded that, so i asked her what she would do in my place and she's like "oh, if my mom's not at home then i don't eat lor."

then she explained herself a little further by telling me this hilarious story about how she wanted to eat ice cream one day and she was trying to persuade jon to eat ice cream too.. but he didn't want to. so then she said if he didn't want to then she didn't want to either, so he should eat with her. and then apparently he said something like if it were me i would just go get the ice cream myself. independence. haha. i'm like okay... interesting. she says she always needs people to do stuff with her, else she won't do whatever it is. i definitely like doing stuff alone, which i guess isn't the healthiest thing.. but like for shopping, i feel like other people are inconvenienced if i drag them along. and if i want to eat random stuff instead of eating meals, it's more for a on-the-go type thing not so much when i meet friends thing. although i guess if my friend wants to eat random stuff too then that works. ah well.