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    Mourning and Miscellaneous

    Wednesday, December 21, 2005

    I will spend one post (one-third a post to be exact) mourning for my results for this semester. Even though it wasn't all that bad by itself, the culmulative part of the system did wonders by belittling any good and enlarging the bad. So no matter how I moan or whine about it, the past can't be erased so I end up mourning about it instead. Let me see, what should I mourn for most: the fact that my non-core modules fared much better than my core modules, or the cumulative average point (CAP) system, or the fact that I should be rejoicing by the miserable 0.1 jump in my CAP?

    ***

    On what seems to be the brighter side, or rather the miscellaneous things, I had gotten a ten-dollar parking fine for my expired coupon, which doesn't sound that bad compared to a thirty-dollar fine had I not run back to the car hastily to place one coupon there (just for fun), before rushing off to meet Sherina and Druce, already late for more than half an hour. So now that I know how much fines cost (those I know at least), I shall enlighten all those who are ignorant of them (including myself before I got that fine):

    $10 for expired coupons
    $30 for no coupons at all
    $20 for jaywalking (no... I'm perfectly serious... I now know of two people who have gotten this and who shall not be named on account of saving their pride)
    $200 for beating the red light

    Anyway if you were wondering where this stupid fine came about and what time, in case you want to be warned too, it was at Serangoon Gardens where parking was free after 10pm and the carpark attendant came at 9pm. So the moral of this tale is that at Gardens, it is mandatory to put parking coupons because they check quite regularly. Ok enough said about my diminishing finances already.

    ***

    Only yesterday I met Juline at Harbourfront and we were supposed to go to Sentosa for an afternoon of the beach and mini-go-karting (the new Sentosa Luge, if you've heard of it). Unfortunately, we somehow managed to spend more than two hours having lunch and shopping (!!!) that by the time we arrived at the ticket booths of Sentosa, it was already 4pm and raining heavily. How we managed to go shopping when we were supposed to be at Sentosa having fun, I don't know. Instead of going into Sentosa, we were on it (well actually only at the ticket booths, we didn't make it past the gantry) for ten minutes before we decided to pack our bags and head back to mainland. And how on earth did we manage to go shopping? Juline walked into a shoe shop to see something and I went in with her, an unknown prey to the extreme dangers of shopping. I did not intend to buy anything more, for I had already spent almost all of my 'spendable' money during the past few weeks. I did not intend to shop either because I knew I would be tempted to buy something. And despite all this, I followed Juline into the shop, and emerged half an hour later with a pair of shoes. This is definitely the last thing or Christmas present I'm going to buy for myself... that's what I say everytime I spend. Unfortunately for me, my brain is not the centre of my decisions, my heart is.

    If you were wondering what we ended up doing: we went to Plaza Singapura, hoping to catch a movie, only to discover that Pride and Prejudice started twenty minutes ago and Memoirs of a Geisha hadn't even started its run yet. Eventually we ended up at spotlight shopping and then decided to rush to Bugis to catch Pride and Prejudice at a later time, which we discovered thanks to the sms information technology of today. So there we were rushing to the cinema, on a pathetic mission to enjoy what was left of the day ruined by the lost of time and the bad weather and also to finish up the drinks and snacks which we bought for Sentosa. Well, I guess we managed to save half of the money we intended for the Sentosa Luge, with Pride and Prejudice thrown in, so it couldn't have been a totally unfruitful day, could it?


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