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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