Day 1 of Intensive Studying
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Yeah right. More like Day 1 of intensive entertainment.
Alright alright, so it was a flop.
This is exactly what happened:
8am. Woke up, looked outside my window, discovered it was raining much to my dismay and thus put my alarm on snooze and returned to dreamland for 5 mins.
8.10am. Oh shit. I'm going to be so late for class. Yes, I had a stupid makeup class on an early Monday morning. Who the hell wanted it during this time anyway?
9.00am. Caught the bus at last. Mandy called to check where I was (we often do that in a bid to race to school, well not who gets there first, but rather, who gets there last). Of course, as usual, I was still around Serangoon and she around Toa Payoh.
10.25am. Yup, 25 mins late for class. Stepped in to find myself surrounded by less than 10 people. Huh?! What the hell?! Where's like half the class? Darn, the cold weather was so nice to sleep in.
12nn. Half-drifting off to dreamland. I want food. I want food! When is this lesson going to be over? Hmm... I feel like shopping. Messaged Daniel: "eh what's the plan? I feel like shopping today ha."
1pm. Please just stop talking already.
1.25pm. Oh yay! Class dismissed! Hmm... I really feel like shopping!
2pm. Had lunch with Celina and Mandy. Our project discussion came to a conclusion without having started, er because we didn't have any samples of drawings to compare with because we didn't draw any. So teamwork falls apart when the team doesn't do any work.
2.10pm. Called the pig-of-Daniel who just woke up not too long ago...
Me: I want to go shopping, so how? What's the plan?
Daniel: Er, I need to borrow a book from Jurong Library and then I can go
anywhere.
Me: Ok!
2.20pm. Told Mandy I was going to go shopping and she said she felt like shopping too. And then I remembered something...
Me: er when are we supposed to watch that Chinese adaptation of
The Banquet (
Ye Yan) huh? Was it today?
Mandy: er was it? Oh anything. Actually I'm free today.
Me: Hmm I wonder if Daniel wants to watch it too.
2.30pm. Called Daniel to suggest...
Me: Daniel, you want to watch
The Banquet?
Daniel: Huh? What's that?
Me: er that kungfu Chinese film thingy... don't know how to describe
Daniel: Orh that Zhang Ziyi flick ah, say so earlier la!
Me: Ya, so you want to watch?
Daniel: Today? What?! You want to shop then you
also want to watch movie?! (in a very incredulous tone) Wah lao!
Me: hehe ya, does this mean we can't get any work done?
Daniel: er, I don't suppose so.
5pm. On the way to town, Daniel and Mandy were playing the angel and devil figures respectively.
Daniel: Oh my god, I can't believe I'm giving in to temptation so easily. AH! You're making go shopping and watch movie with you, it's all your fault! (Obviously trying to guilt me for his own desire to want to go out and break free from his repressed geek-ified surroundings)
Mandy: You
must buy more clothing! Yes yes, spend
all your money! (And if you hear hard enough, you might even hear her witch cackles go: hehehehehe)
6.20pm. We caught the movie and found it to be worth our time. Thought it was quite an interesting adaptation of Hamlet actually. Of course we laughed at the discrepancies.
9pm. Continued with shopping.
Daniel: Let's buy the Lamy pencil for Eric now!
Me: Ok.
Note: The Lamy pencil story traces its roots from just a few days back when Daniel himself bought a brand new transparent Lamy pencil. Eric was with him and teased him like hell about buying a pricey pencil which cost ten times that of a normal mechanical pencil. Fed up with all that teasing, Daniel decided it was time for revenge. *Ahem* of course you can now, dear readers, see that I was the innocent victim-made-accomplice here. Here I was just trying to buy Eric a much belated birthday present and discovered myself caught in this struggle for who-gets-the-last-laugh game.
11pm. Presented Eric with the by now famous Lamy pencil. Eric's reactions were mixed at first, like he didn't know what to make of it.
It went from: "This box looks familiar" to denial of his present by refusing to open it. And after I pestered him to open it, he exclaimed: "Eh this looks exactly like the one Daniel bought la!"
And then... "I know! This is Daniel's idea! Why are you in this with him too?! Wah lao!" To which, of course I protested and reminded him that I was the one with the good will.
And then after some time of staring at the pencil, as if it was able to change in shape, size or colour, Eric said: "OH! I know what Daniel is trying to do already! He's trying to get back at me for suaning him la! Darn..." To which, he excitedly went on and on about what Daniel would do and how he would use the Lamy as a strategy to get back at him, which of course is too long to narrate and half of which I can't remember anyway. But the main point is that, Daniel will never get away with this and neither will Eric, and this is just the beginning of a neverending game.
Well, I guess that's enough entertainment for a day, don't you think? According to Daniel, he will start studying at 10am in the morning on Day 2. According to me, that's bullshit.
1:21 am
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