Strictly for Muggers only
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
I just couldn't resist posting this. Found this snipplet on muggers at the UCC museum while visiting one of the exhibitions for my Jap Society module:
Unlike their mean street namesakes, these are non-violent library types. First in queue for "red spot books" (high usage, required reading), you can spot a mugger fifty yards away by the bulge in his/her pocket caused by 20 cent coins for xeroxing red spot books. Today's industrial strength photocopiers owe their development to rigorous testing by our mugging fraternity.
Muggers are almost always
sunlight averse and
rarely surface for air, preferring the company of books to the company of men (or women). They can be found in the deepest and darkest recesses of the library, mugging away. Not surprisingly, most muggers have milky white complexions, the kind which even Snow White would envy. An extreme variety of muggers known as "
power muggers" have skins so fair they glow in the dark.
Muggers have gone through several mutations through the years and a contemporary second cousin is the nerd. Muggers are not "kia-su" by nature, they are just addicted to mugging. They are not mean-spirited and have been known to be generous, lending 20 cent coins to their last-minute mugging, Union House-hanging, lecture-notes borrowing counterparts.
Andrew Liew, taken from
Raffles College: A Souvenir Publication (1997)
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Guess things weren't that bad after all..
Saturday, May 27, 2006
Yup, no prizes for guessing, my worst grade was given (naturally) by Wally, who probably dislikes me as much I do him and his modules, which I will solemnly boycott from now on.
On the other end of the scale, I'm absolutely astonished and speechless with an A+ for Narrative, considering it's the first 4000 module I've taken and I've never gotten such a high grade before! Woohoo... looks like all the hard work of camping in the honours room day and night to rush our project was paid off, not forgetting the late nights and weekends burnt for the essay. Other than that, I'm ashamed to say I started to slack off while studying for the final paper and thought I had screwed it up.
Hmmm... I guess even though I studied more for Wally's paper, it really wasn't wholeheartedly done, but Narrative was always interesting to me. So I guess interest makes a hell lot of difference.
Anyway contrary to my expectations, Kim, Dan and I didn't meet to check our results because of many hiccups again, unfortunately. But we finally made it to her place at 1 am in the morning, and results was just one of the many topics on our agenda. This is approximately what we did in this order: drink beer and coke while watching nickelodeon and doing some catching up and bitching at the same time, start on a tub of ice cream, watch various episodes of the hard gay series and decided that Kim's network at home was faster than in school, thus we made her place our official base for leeching things off the net. So thus ended our fellowship at 3 in the morning.
In the end, we figured our results weren't as drastic as we expected so there was reason to rejoice and hope that next semester will be better.
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"I want my holiday!!!"
Wednesday, May 24, 2006
This is the little brat in me screaming: "I WANT MY HOLIDAY!!!"
And you notice it's in the singular form only because I'm that desperate.
My 9-year-old sister started her holidays only this morning. Of course she was busy singing while playing with her toys all morning, after which, she went shopping with my mom and bought herself new things (as usual and of course they're free). And during dinner time, she hogged the tv with her cartoons. Not that I wasn't watching along, but the fact that she's allowed to watch tv struck me as she's having her holidays.
Argh. Just three more weeks... Come to me. Come... *chants in a trance-like manner repetitively*
Before that, of course, there are the results, which of course I know since everybody has been busy reminding me about it. And no, I'm not checking tomorrow. I'm going to lao niang aka Kim's place on Friday to check with her and Dan. Imagine a peek-a-boo mouse-clicking situation where we click for each other and scream just before the results are announced by the 'clicker': "No!!! Don't tell me!!" Followed by: "Oh alright, let me see."
And then...
AHHHHHHHH!!!! OMG!!!
or
OH NO!!!!! ARGHHHHH
nah.. that was just a preview. Or maybe not. *cross fingers*
Anyway the respective responses will be revealed hopefully in the next post, that is, if I'm not too upset or still mourning for my results.
P.S. Lao niang, if you read this on time, CALL US to arrange for Friday.
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The big day... finally!
Wednesday, May 17, 2006
No, I'm not getting married, contrary to what most of you think i.e. that I'll secretly get attached/engaged/married without telling any of you. To those I promised you would be the first to know, I'm still keeping that promise, so don't panic and don't worry. Right, now then.
Dan, Kim and I finally launched our little group on Monday after much hiccups and in between the very busy special term, tkd and driving lessons. Kim was craving for Japanese food so we ended up at Sakae, obviously the most convenient since Borders was just downstairs, which makes a rather good waiting place *winks*.
Alright, I confess! I was ten minutes late and made Dan and Kim starve in the most terrible way: by sitting in Sakae whilst watching their (potential) go pass in front of them. But they waited for me still despite the temptation, so sweet!
So then we said grace and started the ritual to our CSS 2, followed by plate after plate of sushi plus 3 plates of tofu, all except 2 pieces of it was eaten by Daniel alone. After we had stuffed ourselves of rice and miscellaneous, Kim and I decided we were full. However, Daniel was only half full so he suggested going over to Ice Cube for ice cream. But before that, we had to have our chicken-ginseng broth look alike so Daniel ordered this soup thing which arrived in a tea pot. From the tea pot, Daniel extracted almost magically a little cup (like those meant to drink sake). For the very first time in order to mark our opening ceremony, we each drank from the same cup of soup.
Of course, this would have been explained so much easily using pictures, but they are currently in Kim's phone, Edward. (Yes, the phone is named Edward!) And our dear Kim has gone to Bangkok, so effectively, the photos are unavailable because Edward is in Bangkok right now.
So off we went to Ice Cube... Once Daniel sat down, he refused to budge and occupied the whole sofa by himself like a king ha. Apparently it was addictive because after some time, Kim started to put her thunder thighs on the wall, like she always do at home. So we sat there for a couple of hours eating ice cream and thrashing our nonsense around. Poor Daniel who was then suffering from his anxiety-filled mind for a certain issue concerning a certain fairytale character, and we had to make it worse by asking about it every 10 minutes when he checks his phone every 5 mins. Despite that, he bravely survived the night, thanks to the fellowship of CSS 2 of course.
Because we had to distract Daniel from his anxious mind, we started to make future plans for CSS 2. Our next fellowship will be the day the results come out and of course the day of Kim's driving test. (Good luck girl! You can do it!) We intend to sit in Kim's room and comfort ourselves with beer and crackers should our results come out like shit, which we're crossing our fingers for it not to.
Daniel suggested a way we could motivate ourselves to study next semester: by placing 200 bucks on the table for the person with the best grades of the sem. That's roughly about 60 plus bucks to fork out per person. Damn. Well, may the best CSS 2 member win!
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Japanese floral arrangement & bottle wrapping workshop
Thursday, May 11, 2006
//updated
I managed to take a photo of the two objects instead, because my phone and laptop just couldn't get along. So here they are!
Went for this workshop as part of my lessons for one of my special term modules, Japanese Society, and I suppose it turned out rather well considering how disastrous it was.
List of things to bring:
- Empty wine bottle (or a bottle shaped like a wine bottle)
- Floral nipper (or make do with scissors) What is a floral nipper??
- Tape
- Stapler
- Scissors
Obviously we couldn't reproduce this list if it was given to us only the night before.
So this is what I brought instead:
- Empty vodka bottle (which was a third the size of a wine bottle I assure you)
- Scissors
- Tape
- Stapler
Don't laugh at the little vodka bottle just yet, there's a story to it. Because I couldn't find an empty wine bottle in my house (though I'm quite sure I kept a few before we moved, but after that, things just got lost very easily), nor did Aless have an extra one, so I had to go to 7-11 to get something that resembled a wine bottle. Right, that shouldn't be too hard right, I mean I'm sure 7-11 had plenty of this kind of stuff.
When I went to the liquor section, I had no idea what was what. The only drinks I had were usually wine or those already mixed by friends or at a club and that does not include beer. And considering this was at 5+ in the late afternoon and the class was at 7, I couldn't possibly get myself high before it started right. So I got the disgusting vodka premixed with berry. Actually it kind of tasted like F&N cherryade.
Anyway I brought it to the cashier, who stared at me and said: "Can I check your IC please?"
Huh? Hmm. Oh. I was stunned for 3 seconds before I registered what she was saying and mumbled an "okay". Wait a minute... SHE WANTS TO CHECK MY IC FOR BUYING A LOUSY BOTTLE OF SODA AND VODKA!!! I mean, it's not even real vodka.
When I fumbled out my driving licence (!!!) to give to her. She looked at it for 2 seconds and said: "Hey, you're older than me!"
ERRRRRRR....
"But you look so... young."
Right, now I don't know if that's a good thing or not. When I related this to Aless, she patted me on the back and said: "Don't worry, I know exactly how you feel."
And then she had to add: "I knew something like that would happen." Hur hur...
We ended up finishing most of the disgusting vodka-wannabe thing before the workshop. Actually it got so bad we had to mix it with rootbeer before drinking. Aless said it tasted like medicine. Poor Aless, who shared in my sorrow of drinking that lousy thing when she couldn't drink... all this and I paid six bucks for it, just to get the stupid bottle.
By the time we reached the place, we were already half-sleepy from dinner and gassy drinks. Little did we know that things will get so much harder later.
We started very painfully and slowly with floral arrangement first. Our sensei was a very soft-spoken Japanese lady who spoke little English. Fortunately for us, we had a translator. Although I could catch bits and pieces of what sensei was saying, most of the time she sounded too soft to be audible. However, there were still times that what she said was untranslatable and she had to show us how to do it.
Everything was going smoothly (slowly but still okay) before the flowers and what not were added. I never knew there were these many steps to floral arrangement! And I thought arranging the flowers was the hardest step. Now I think sticking the thick stalk of tulips in was one of the greatest chore. A few of us, including myself broke a tulip or two in the process. Poor Aless broke many things, and she felt so bad about it.
Because Mother's Day was arriving, we were supposed to be doing this for our mothers. And I emphasise "supposed" because many of us actually thought our floral arrangements couldn't make it.
The guy next to Weikai: "I think my mother will faint when she sees this."
And Weikai stuck so many plants and fruits in his pot, it reminded me of a jungle.
Good thing sensei was very kind and nice about it, saying that we should just have fun, which of course we did, amongst the complaining.
And just when we thought the nightmare was over, there was still bottle wrapping. Now, bottle wrapping sounds terribly easy and the final product looked terribly easy to make, because all it looked like was a nicely (not too elaborately) wrapped up wine bottle. BUT the wrapping was a killer.
The instructions were fairly simple: 3 folds on the right, another 3 on the left. Repeat for the back.
However, when we started attempting to fold the paper, it was difficult enough just trying to fold and hold the folds at the same time. It got so frustrating that I just wanted to give up. Eventually sensei had to go around to help us with it. And somehow we managed to make a shabby representation of the model example in front, and that was after exceeding an hour of the stipulated time for the workshop mind you.
Still, Aless and I were quite proud of ourselves for making something out of nothing, even if we did make a big mess out of it and hope still that our mothers will love our imperfect creations. We even took a photo of our products, which is currently in my phone and if I succeed in getting it uploaded, I might post it up. I guess we looked like we were the receivers of some award or prize with us holding the wrapped bottle and flowers and all.
Of course, things weren't as sunny for some of the guys who just wanted to go home. Weikai kept asking us what the point of this workshop was. Erm, actually I had no idea, neither did Aless. We were just happy to be there to have fun and waste the school's funds while at it (obviously the school was sponsoring it for us). In the end, we told him to use his newfound skills to impress his girlfriend or something. Hur hur.
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Happy Birthday Kim!
Monday, May 08, 2006
Our dearest, loveliest and beautiful Kim has turned 21 today *in the manner of a fond parent who has discovered the start of adulthood for his/her child.*
Happy Birthday to you, girl!To celebrate it, Daniel voluntarily acted the part of a depressed and suicidal friend who called Kim, yes sniffing and all, to lure her out to the bus stop at her block. Of course Kim did not suspect anything odd but was genuinely worried and also genuinely deceived by our prank. She also called me after Daniel had called her to come with her to comfort Daniel. And of course I was already at that bus stop but had to trick her into believing that I was busy dating (in accordance to Daniel's story of course).
So eventually when she reached the bus stop at 12 plus on the morning of her birthday, the commotion went something like this:
Kim in a very concerned voice, holding a packet of Bursting Bees gummies: "Daniel... Daniel, are you ok?"
Daniel turned from being crouched on the seat to: "SURPRISE!!!"
Kim: "AHHHHHHHH!!!!"
And then I came out from behind.
Kim in a whole long string of mutterings and screamings which came out something like this in random order: "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! You tricked me! You tricked me! Daniel!! I thought you were really depressed.. see I even brought Bursting Bees for you... Mitch!! I thought you were out dating... AHHHHHHH!!! I can't believe I fell for it!!"
MuahahahaAnd then she related how she was tricked into going for a surprise party yesterday by her teammates and boyfriend. And needless to say, she fell for that too.
To think that we almost couldn't get her on the phone and were worried that we had to abandon our plans. Poor Daniel had to go to his friend's house nearby to squat for so long. But it was worth it since we did manage to get Kim out in the end, all thanks to Daniel's acting ha.
***
On another note, lectures started today for me. I was ever so reluctant to drag myself out of bed for a 2pm lecture in Science. It certainly didn't help that the lecture theatre was in some unknown corner of an unfamiliar faculty. It also didn't help that the lecturer went on and on in a droning voice on Physics and the Life Sciences.
I think we got more than what we bargained for in this module though. It's supposed to be a Physics module but there are biological and chemical elements involved so... we have to be somewhat familiar with all three subjects. And why is that even remotely familiar to me? Terms like ultra centrifugation and gel electrophoresis or even, magnetoencephalography. And I thought the nightmare was over the moment I entered Arts.
I now forsee a repercussion of my longtime repressed nightmare which started 5 years ago.
hur hur
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Here we go again...
Saturday, May 06, 2006
IVLE announcement: "Please be reminded that our first lecture will be on Monday May 8."
Groans. Special term. Groans. I'm not particularly keen on going back barely a week after my last paper. And considering how distrastrously well the studying for last sem's exams went, I'm not exactly too thrilled with doing it again in a month or so.
Yes, yes snigger snigger all you want. Gloat over my misery, especially the NIE-bound folks...
But when I'm finished with special term, you guys are gonna start school heh. And to the people who are graduating, good luck with finding a job because I'm not too keen on being in that position either, even though the thought of leaving NUS once and for all is rather tempting I must admit. However the thought of being thrown out into the wilderness with no direction makes me hesitate a lot on graduating.
And that is precisely why I'm still buying time.
In fact, I'm so adverse to working now that I'm too lazy to look for internships. Perhaps the next holiday huh.. While I'm still a student, I would like to remain one. Studying and slacking are part of my job, until I graduate that is, and by then will have to join the rest of the jobless graduates in moaning about the lack of jobs or brutal interviewers. But until then, I have absolutely no interest in a job as for now. Perhaps I might get a little worried this time next year, we'll see.
In the meantime, things are going to get busy on the education bit. Other than special term, I have signed up for both French and Japanese classes. Talk about an infusion of languages. But it's worth it I expect, in a bid to value-add myself so I can have an easier time in finding a job next time. No, I'm kidding. My ambition is to become a multi-linguist.
Muahahaha. Right.
No, actually I have different reasons for taking both languages. I'm taking, or should I say continuing with, French because I started taking it in the first semester of NUS and it would be a waste to give it up now, not when I have the time to study still. I'm taking Japanese out of pure interest and because I enjoy reading manga and watching anime.
On the whole, I'm taking languages because I enjoy learning them, much more than I would say other subjects and perhaps as fun as literature is but much easier to grasp than lit is I think. Languages (at least French and Japanese) allow me to absorb no matter how scatterbrain my mind is sometimes or how short my attention span is. And I also enjoy travelling to other countries and be able to understand what the native people are saying without having to wildly employ hand gestures, because that can be quite irritating sometimes.
Well, who knows, if all else fails in the media industry, I can always put my skills to use.
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Kim, STUDY!
Thursday, May 04, 2006
Daniel on sms: "KIMBERLY DON'T THINK YOU CAN SLACK WHEN I'M NOT AROUND. GET BACK TO WORK."
So screams the coach of operation make-Kim-study after he had left for a sushi buffet.
The night before I had called her at 9 to spot check on her, only to find our dear Kim who had two papers today watching cartoons. And so motivated our make-Kim-study operation. We were there from slightly after her morning paper to before her evening paper to force, coerce, coax her into studying. Of course, coaxing didn't help so Daniel had to order her to study, complete with threats (I did suggest her paying for our next Crystal Jade bill if she didn't).
Unfortunately Daniel left too early, about 2-ish for his sushi buffet, leaving Kim reading only for a while, because about 3 plus Kim promptly gave up and declared that she could not study anymore, with the logic that you can't possibly squeeze anything into your head 2 hours before the exam.
And so we sat there munching Daniel's strawberry yoghurt sandwich cookies, which is of course pink in colour (the box that is), until Kim's fellow exam-taker, Benita came along and then they started discussing the abstract concepts of the module.
At 4pm, Daniel's sms came.
Muahahaha...Kim's reply: "I'M CONDEMNED!!! IF I MAKE IT, YOU'LL SEE ME ON FRIDAY."
Next Friday was supposed to be our CSS 2 launch day, but now we have to postpone it because we're even busier after the exams, which is ironic.
Of course, we made to the exam hall. Or rather, Kim made it to the exam hall and I followed her there and saw other friends who were taking the same exam, and who of course, promptly accused me of gloating over their misery by simply being there. Hmpf. What an ungrateful lot, when I offered chocolates to them to cheer them on.
Hahaha...It's not as if I went into the library sniggering at people who are
still mugging right... hmmm.. actually I did go to the library. But that's only because Daniel wanted to snigger at people who haven't yet finished their exams.
***
To make right the wrong... regarding Xiaohui's cynical remarks on the '10 ways you know a guy is crushing on you' type of article, we did ask her a whole string of questions because by some *ahem* mysterious ways, we could remember some of the 'typical' ways. So here goes:
"What if the guy keeps staring at you?"
XH: "He's looking at my pretty friend, whose next to me."
"What if the guy said 'I love you'?"
XH: "He's only taking me as a substitute for his mother, who can cook, clean and tidy up for him."
Hmm there were many others, which I can't remember at that time, basically because er... I wasn't really listening. Actually I was fighting to keep awake after lunch so Xiaohui had to ask me if I was still there every 5 minutes. Well I heard little bits and pieces, enough to respond sometimes but most of the time stoning or far away in dreamland.
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Where number two is first...
Wednesday, May 03, 2006
The end is the start of something new.
Daniel has rightly reminded me that we are
not starting a faction, we're revolting: "Where number two is first." So hurry up, you two slow pokes and finish the exams so we can officially launch our revolution, albeit with dim sum and chocolate buffets and
real chicken-ginseng-tonic soup, and more bitching and trashing of long-repressed issues of the heart, and not be smothered by
them *ahem*
Of course not forgetting that
pink is the hot colour of our revolution. Yes you read it right, hot-screaming pink. Even Daniel has converted to our pink-ness, well considering he was the one who made the logo. Kim and I are of course well immersed in the bright pink, orange, yellow what have you... but now we shall concentrate on pink. And Eric, pink is definitely
not a gay colour...
you are. Muahahaha...
***
That aside, I just realised that I was beginning to get used to my way of taking exams when it ended this morning. Since this semester I had the luck of having all 9am papers, I shall use a specific time frame to describe:
9am. Right, the paper just started. There's no need to start writing furiously... let's take a look at the questions hmm... okay... okay... turn page... okay... what to write what to write... doodles on paper and think about which question I can crap the most...
9.15am. Oh shit 9.15 already?? Okay start writing something at least... that's it, I'll start on the introduction, that's
surely needed right?
9.30am. Oh shit. I'm only at the intro and still am not done with it yet... panic mode to start on essay. Wait a minute, what's my point exactly? Starts to revise point and starts swiftly on essay.
10.00am. AHHHHHH!!! 10!!! I still have another essay to do and am not done with this one yet... hmm okay, I need a conclusion
now... concludes in 1 or 2 mins.
10.05am. Ok no time to do any planning, just choose the first question that catches my attention and sounds good. Now go, full steam ahead! Of course the handwriting looks so distorted I have to keep going back to correct my 'a's and 'e's... why do they look the same?
10.50am. Hey you know what.. I'm at the conclusion now hehe, so much for rushing like mad. Stares at the impossibly scrawled squiggles on my paper. What are those things doing on my paper?? Shit no time to change, I sincerely hope Prof XX can read my handwriting.
I solemnly promise to remove any poxes on them should I have given them any and not give them anymore until the day I get my grades back.
In conclusion, I realise I'm quite a bad performer if I relax at the beginning of every exam thinking that 2 hours is a lot of time and rushing full steam ahead in the second half of the paper. Then again, it's worse if I panic at the beginning of the paper like I did a few sems back... In the end I get like two horribly perhaps half-written chunks that somewhat resemble an essay.
So perhaps the revolution will do me some good like pass me some of the great performing stunts of Kim and Daniel through diffusion or something... heh pretty please?
***
On another note, I also realised that when one lacks sleep, one can notice things very sharply and yet not be bright enough to understand why, for instance...
Nicholas's hair looks weird today... in fact it looks kinda flat... why?
"It grew."Sianying's wearing a skirt today... I've never seen her wear a skirt before!! Why?
"I'm going out later."Dawn looks much fairer today... why? Er I didn't ask her because I forgot all about it when she and Barney started chatting animatedly about their dating agency during lunch. But upon reflection, I suppose she got fairer from staying indoors 'cos of studying for the exams.
Xiaohui's so cynical about the '10 ways you know a guy is crushing on you' type of article... She'll flatly reject any one of the 10 ways immediately after you throw it at her, like:
"What if the guy said 'I love you'?"
XH: "He's probably treating you as a substitute for his mother."
ERRRR....
why? I wasn't able to figure out why then but now that I thought about it, perhaps it's the lack of sleep, or maybe it was always innate in her but I just didn't realise it.
Barney said she loves her Baleno black t-shirt. Erm.. why?
"I don't like Baleno... I just like the shirt."Not to worry, the rest of you escaped my sleepy helium-high of an eye today, which is rather fortunate of you I must say. Hopefully there aren't so many of this so I won't have to worry about asking funny pointed questions like: "what happened to your face?"
Nah, I probably just need more sleep, that's all.
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The spirit was willing but the flesh weak...
Monday, May 01, 2006
Quote of the day from Kim: "The spirit was willing but the flesh weak."
Yup that was pretty much our motto for today. Yesterday Kim and I discovered, to our horror, that the weekend was over and we hadn't done much studying, so I made quick panic emergency call to her... and discovered that I had just woke her up from a 3-hour nap at 9pm. So we decided very resolutely that we shall study the next day despite it being a public holiday ya-dah ya-dah. At 10 plus that same night, I spotted her online when we were supposed to do a bit of studying before mugging the next day and of course we procrastinated and screeched at each other for not having done anything yet. And then we saw Daniel online and decided to ask him along to suffer with us the next day. Right, so today was planned to be strictly no nonsense studying at 10am.
However... things turned out rather er... weird. This is something like what happened:
10am. Kim called me and said that she was forced to have lunch with her folks so I should go meet Daniel to study first and that she'll join us later about 2... and did I
not received her message last night at 2 am?
Huh? What message?10.30am. Messaged Daniel, while still deliberating whether I should go back to sleep or drag myself to school: "Hey are you awake yet?"
Hmm.. no reply. Ok and picked up Neil Gaiman's
Stardust to read.
11.15am. Logged online and saw Daniel online. Said hello and he said he just woke up. So we agreed to meet for lunch at 12 to nourish the body first before torturing the mind.
12nn. Drove to Eusoff Hall and called Daniel, only to hear him say: "Hey I'll meet you at Crystal Jade ok?"
Huh? What Crystal Jade? I thought I was supposed to pick him up? After a few sentences exchanged, we realised that we were on completely different subjects. Rapid rethink.
Ok, where are you? "Science bus stop, I just got off 95"
Ok stay there, I'll come pick you up.12.15pm. Drove to Holland V. It started pouring heavily. No free parking lots. We drove round a few times. NO parking lots. We drove past Crystal Jade, which looked very crowded. There
was a queue, despite the rain.
Where can we go to eat? "Let's try Sixth Avenue."
12.35pm. Drove to Sixth Avenue.
Nothing. "Let's try Serene Centre." Drove on and realised we were heading in the wrong direction i.e. towards school. Saw Macdonald's and shuddered. "No Macs."
No Macs. What about that dingy brown building over there? "I see Pizza Hut."
Ok. Bukit Timah Plaza it is. What the hell are we doing here when we were supposed to be studying since 10am?1-ish. "This place looks like J.B."
Er.. yeah, it looks like Parkway Parade before it was renovated. Walked around the building.
Er.. doesn't seem like there's much to eat here. "Yeah, let's go upstairs." After much circling around...
PIZZA HUT!!! "Ok, let's go in if you don't mind." Ordered food and sat down to wait for it. Daniel admits that he wanted to go to Crystal Jade because he was craving for the chicken-ginseng-tonic kind of soup there.
1.30pm. Kim messaged: "Hey I'm on my way to school now. Where are you guys?" Called her and confessed that we were still having lunch and probably will only be back about 2-ish. She said she will stop at Clementi to get kopi first so she'll probably reach around the same time.
2pm.
Where is the bloody auto-pay machine??!! Asked this man after some searching for it. "There is no auto-pay machine, just pay on your way out." (Note: there is no cashcard or I.U. carpark payment by the way) Drove the car to the exit.
Manual payment!!! And in cash!! What is this old system??2-ish. Drove back to school. Stopped initially at arts to find a nice studying spot. Decided we should become snails at Law (Note: SNAIL= Students Not Actually In Law). Drove to Law. Kim called: "Where are you guys?"
We'll meet you at Law.
2.30pm. Met Kim and settled at Law. Daniel suggested this system: "Let's study from now till 9pm and then we'll go to Crystal Jade to have tonic soup. For every 45 mins of studying and
no talking, we have 15 mins of break. How about that?"
Sounds good. Ok. "Hmm.. since it's not yet 3, let's start only at 3."
Erm... yeah ok... Ended up chatting until 3.
3pm. Started studying and was very hard to get Kim to not talk initially.
3.50pm. BREAK TIME!!! "Ok, we're doing quite good." More chat and resumed at 4pm.
4.30pm.
Oh God... we're dying... help... Started chatting. AHHH!!! What happened to our system?? From then on it pretty much went downhill with unofficial breaks in between.
6.15pm. "Mitch, let's go for a drink break."
Er ok... Hence we went in search for vending machines. Daniel was dismayed at the proximity of it: "Let's walk to the arts one ok..." Kim: "Yah, I want my Kopi near the library."
Ok... But when we got there, the vending machine which dispensed bottled drinks had a situation. The bottles which were supposed to have been bought were lying at the bottom of the machine inside the glass screen. The poor souls who had their money cheated. Looked like some 20 bottles there. Daniel: "The machine's spoilt." Thus back to the Law vending machine which dispenses the same bottled drinks.
Duhhhh...6.45pm. Kim: "Hey can we leave earlier, please... 8.30??"
Ermmmm.... Daniel tries to implement some law and order but is unsuccessful.. Frustrated, he says: "Ok if I speak from now till 7.30, I will foot for the Crystal Jade bill later!"
Muahahaha... Kim desperately tries to make him speak but is unsuccessful.
7.30pm. Daniel: "Break time!!!!" He and Kim starts chatting.
7.45pm. Daniel: "Let's leave at 8."
Wait a minute, isn't that in like 15 mins?? Started chatting about brothers who can't go out with the family to have dinner but have to
dabao food for them.
8.25pm. "Let's leave for Crystal Jade." Packed and drove to Holland V. once again...
9-ish. We reach Crystal Jade only to find the most essential chicken-ginseng-tonic soup missing from the menu.
ERRRRRRRR...... Kim: "Daniel!!!!!!! I thought you said there was chicken soup??!!" Daniel: "Er.. well I wasn't sure. I knew they had soup..." So we ended up ordering dinner and Daniel's chicken-turned-beef soup.
9-ish. Brainchild of Daniel: to start a faction of our own. Members by invite only. Then we can start discussing our own nonsense online, or rather issues that we really want to bring up like how Kim makes vulgarities sound good and how the '87 generation of brothers wind up as the
dabao generation and gay and lesbianism censored topics.
10pm. Drove Daniel back to school. Daniel: "Yup I'm going start on our logo now." As I was driving off, Kim: "Hey I think today's studying was not too bad, if you compare it to me staying at home by myself." So optimistic, aren't we? Drove her and myself back.
So that was how we had a classic illustration of Kim's quote.
10:52 pm
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