Reached Tanjong Pagar MRT station at 8.30am, little to know that we were actually meeting at 9am. All that someone/whoever's fault.
Anyway hung around and finally all came and we went on a five-minute walk to the Amara hotel. Got some leftover sushi FROM Edo Sushi to tide over the hunger pangs...
And we went up to the third floor, where Christine, the event planner, told us that they only need 10 dressers(10 models) and asked five of us to be ushers. Well of course everybody came here for the dresser job, but i think there's not really that much of a BIG deal. I'm gonna get beaten up for saying this, but whatever. Some human behaviours disturb me terribly. The thought makes me shiver. BLAH.
So Pearlyn, Clarion and two other girls came out for the usher job. We tied ribbons for the door gifts - paper bags filled with rubbish. Then we slacked around and went looking for the dressers. Pearlyn and I found our love of pledge in the form of two feathers from a red feather boa.
After a very long time there was a full rehearsal. Well i brought in chips into the backstage to show off HA! The models are like NOOBIES. HAHA they weren't used to taking off their clothes at backstage. They took goodness how long to change... We went to the audience to watch the rehearsal. TSK and there's the occasional horny glance since we were the only audience there besides from the photographers and maybe two aunties. WE WERE SO PRIVILEGED to be there. I must say it is a blessing in disguise, cause Pearlyn and I had so much fun.
In between rehearsals and the real show, we:-
1. Drank coffee and cappuccino while the dressers were slogging out and acted out a short skit like we were business partners. (Well, actually Pearlyn had a one-man-show.)
2. Got to know a ADM alumni.
3. Got a new friend the magician(my hia di).
Well, actually he was showing tricks to a uncle who was dressed up as a clown(balloon man) and we joined in. I asked him for the Number 8 club ball he conjured but he says he can't take it BOO!
4. Got balloon bracelets from the balloon uncle.
5. More chips.
6. Got a necklace(from the alumni).
After the show we went for the refreshments. Waited so god damn long for it can. All charged to the chocolate fondue and cake. HAHA. Then we took drinks from the bar and acted like rich people who go to Japan everyday for work purposes.
After everything we left for the Red Dot Museum. Walked around the flea market(i only got a knitted cockroach brooch at $2). Then went off.
The three of us headed for Clarke Quay. Eve got her flats, finally. Then off to Orchard. At Wisma, we went to Cotton On. While waiting(the crowd is insane!) I went to get Yan Yan from Watsons. I sat in a small corner opposite Cotton On. There was a shop under renovation and it was all boarded up, and there was a small mirror panel between the boards and another jewellery shop, so i sat there. Then a female security guard came and chased me away, asking me not to sit there and that "there is a sitting area on Level One". Stupid woman i was waiting for my friends lah! Anyway i went to look at fish and went into other shops before coming back. I think we spent(i mean, THEY) an hour or so there. Sigh, WOMEN! And i got chocolate all over my white shirt.
I can't bloody comprehend how people can tolerate SQUEEZY crowds like this just to get some shopping done. I'd rather rot at home.
Off to Body Shop, where Pearlyn got her first makeup - blusher and foundation. HAHA i only agreed to go cause i wanna see what she was gonna buy. Then off to Mango(i was sitting all around the place that i may be mistaken for a busker), where Evelyn took forever to say goodbye to her colleagues. And that woman spends like there is no tomorrow/it is the End of the World, man. LOL.
The whole day Pearlyn and I were singing and acting. Sigh. Talented people.
And i reached home at 7.45pm.
Goodness feet pain.
Alrighty. My feet are gonna break.
Hmm anyway. I actually wanted to walk to school from the overhead bridge stop. HA when i got off 27 i think the person sat beside me was very shocked, cause i stop up very abruptly. I didn't notice that i had reached my stop can.
"Siao ah?" Yes. (Uh huh repeated but LIKE WHATEVER~)
Reasons for the preference of walking over taking the bus
1. screw the crowd
2. my bag is an obstruction
3. it is hard to get off the bus
Disclaimer: All the above applies to peak hours only. Like HECK HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
BUT.
I didn't walk to school today.
INSTEAD.
I took the TP shuttle bus for the first time this morning. When i went up the bus it was like Cantonese songs played in the bus. Uncle driving what you expect?
Blahblahblah. The headrest was a wee bit hard and uncomfortable but I AM NOT COMPLAINING!
Reached school and i contemplated a walk even when i only had 15 minutes to class. HAHA i took up the challenge and walked along the canal. Super shiok. This man came cycling here when i was making my way back to school. His maltese started growling and barking at me. NANNYNANNYPOOPOO.
WELL i thought i looked pretty suicidal walking along the canal cause i was wearing neither sports attire nor sports attire. L.O.L.
Italian CLASS. DARN quiz on Monday.
Oh and yes the much revered pinned-up cockroach is gone. I wish it good luck.
Blahblahblah. ComDI stretched to three today. Towards the last bit i was already stoning and falling alseep and kept rocking myself forwards and backwards to stop myself from dozing off. To further illustrate that, look at my illustration:
Alrighty. I set off for City Hall. See, i figured i needed some "me" time. HA. And so starts my Self-Discovery Tour. The Second.
Well actually today's mission was to get some CDs.
I came out of the station to Raffles City. LOST. I anyhow walked out from some exit and saw Suntec City just in the distance. Passed by the memorial park, saw Esplanade, blah. And waited at the traffic lights for bloody long time. There was a Caucasian on the opposite side and we were like two stupid people standing there stupidly waiting for the stupid lights while the rest of the stupid people jaywalked.
LALALA. I went in search for my stuff when i didn't even know what the heck i was looking for. I mean the shop. Walked around in circles for quite some time. HELLO it has been a long time since i last went there okay. Now i can add one more place to my area of expertise. Celebrate, people! I don't know how many times i went to the directory, and for the last time i stayed there like five minutes... And i passed by the information counter and snatched over one map of Singapore. HAHAHAHA i just love doing that. Makes me ticklish. Then i walked further away and shook out the whole big map a la Christopher Columbus. HAHAHAHAHA one girl got a shock. I am always shocking people and i kinda enjoy it. HOHOHO.
Anyway i also went to this part of the mall which they call "MY PLAYGROUND". Initially i thought i had walked into Dhoby XChange. It's like exactly the same, complete with vacant shops. LOL it's gonna die out soon.
For a while i came out from Tower 3 from the back and came to the lobby and i felt like a criminal with the marble floor and ceilings around me. TA-DAH! And there was a guard there. I quickly made my way out and jaywalked to Tower 2. And went inside and walked all over again.
I made a decision to visit the Fountain of Wealth, and almost jaywalked across the turnaround when i found the escalator down. WOAH the last time i've been here was long long long long long long time ago. And dammit the fountain is closed from 26 October to 11 November for some maintenance works. BOO!
I think i walked to around till 5plus before i OFFICIALLY exited Suntec City. Well well not a very grand exit i must say. I came out from the back, where the bulk of Carrefour is, and came to a dead end. They were building some train station for the Circle Line i guess and all who were there were construction workers. What an affinity. In the end i walked till the end until i could almost continue to walk to Nicoll Highway and go to Marina Promenade. LOL. Anyway, in order not to lose face, i crossed to the opposite Millenia Walk. Cross first, think later. I walked into the fountain place with all the water streaming down the walls. Oddly out of place with all the businessmen/women. Brought back all the memories. Aww...
Somehow i got out again, up the escalator on the right side of the entrance of Millenia Walk, and crossed the bridge to Marina Square. BIG EMPTY SPACES i love them. I felt like running to each and every corner of the balcony-like place but that would be insane. Memories. Toys R' Us at Marina Square was a place we frequented a lot when we were kids. Anyhow, i walked, back to Suntec, and to the City Hall MRT. Well actually CityLink should have led me to Suntec in the first place, but i thought it went to Esplanade. BUMMER. Nevermind. I love to seek trouble. My philosophy is that there is always a way out. So i went to this place which i had never explored on foot before. AH NEVER MIND! I'm a walking map. And thank goodness i didn't wear Converse. HA!
And i was actually heading to Somerset for the HMV when i remembered there was one at CityLink. Just to try my luck, i went in. Under the metal section, found Avenged SevenFold, which i had heard before of them BUT not their songs. BUT no Anberlin. Continued searching under Pop/Rock, no Taylor Swift but i bloody found Anberlin! I actually couldn't believe it like WOW. I was so happy that i almost jumped in joy. Could been happier. HAHA.
I paid and asked the staff if there were any Taylor Swift's discs in their outlets, and he said there was only one album at the Orchard branch, and it is her self-titled album. And that's not i want, so i headed home.
And along the way i saw six window display-like boxes in which real people are in. Some camera ad i think. Pretty cool.
And i reached home right at 7pm.
My brother is having a mahjong session tomorrow with his friends.
WOO tomorrow is dresser day. FREAKY!
Arrivedieci.
Hi there.
Okay, as usual, the stupid bus and all. BUT instead of switching to 15 at the overhead bridge bus stop, i walked to school. I am so sick of the stupid crowd in the stupid bus. HA! Well i figured i won't be late cause it was like only 8.30am and it should take not more than 15 mins to reach school, considering that i am a fast walker.
You say,"SIAO AH?". Yeah i am a bit loony sometimes.
Italian is crazy but it's not a problem for me. Ah and Natalie, my classmate, told me she recognised me from my bag and saw me walking to school. I love my bag. It is a good substitute for a nice warm pillow.
I am starting to like ComDI cause i like subjects which induce me to think. Yeah. He showed us ads and all. Pretty cool. And i discovered that i have a hidden fetish: CARS. I didn't know, seriously. I only knew that i like Alfa Spider.
HAHA short. Sweet. Nice.
Goodness it's November already.
Allora. That was a nice bath.
Long post ahead.
I got on the train at 12.30pm. Emo-ed the whole journey. Hmm. Not emo actually. Rocking out. SILENTLY. BAH. I am so in love with Boys Like Girls right now that i have been repeating the album over and over again for the whole day. Their songs are perfect rock-out songs. My NEWEST prized possesion.
So we were supposed to meet at Orchard MRT Station at 1pm today. We were gonna take photos for ComDI. I was a weeny bit late but that's not the point. I actually got out from another exit. Note that i purposely did that and it wasn't because i don't know my way around. And i came out to see the ION Orchard construction side. I wonder if it is negative or positive. LOLOLOL. Anyway the whole construction site stretched to the Orchart MRT station. What was there before the construction came? I think it was the place where some maid was killed and/or disposed?
Okay anyway soon i saw Wheelock Place, and the only people at the traffic light besides me were Bangla construction workers. I walked and i walked and i found Emily and Ain at Wisma. Then we went off to Palais Renaissance and then to Forum, then to Takashimaya where we passed by the station and found Ethel. Had lunch. I am a special kid and i have special treatment to a special fillet.
Then off to Paragon, blah blah blah. So we finally headed home at around 3 plus 4. I set off for Outram Park. CDs here i come! I was utterly disappointed. No Anberlin, no Taylor Swift. I should have expected. No wonder Singapore(and the whole of Asia as well) is/are behind the Western countries by twenty years. GAH. Anyway i did not give up, and i got Evanescence, The Open Door, and Green Day, American Idiot. I am SO not going to go home empty-handed. HAHA china imports. Love them. $7.90 and $7 respectively.
And i continued walking and walking. What do you do when you(self deceive yourself that) have hell lot of a time? You walk from Pearl Centre to Pagoda Street. Yup. I passed by People Park and went to Pagoda Street or whatever you call that, the place where the whole street is red and where the Heritage Centre is. I set off to look for the stall where i got the ties, but there weren't any nice ones so i gave up and u-turned. I think i got captured in same angmoh's film/video. WAHA.
I continued walking the other way, and i saw this familiar angmoh guy. He was on TV for some reason. Well, he owns a stall there, by the name of something like "Wuesterland" or whatever, some beef or whatever, and he has a giant screw through his head. I seriously cannot remember which show he was on. Another angmoh was taking pictures of him.
I continued and saw the Buddha's Tooth Relic Temple. I know this is sensitive, but the buddha's teeth or whatever is BOGUS! It was in the newspapers can. I went inside for a while. GAH i dislike those shiny and extravagant temples. Anyway i saw Maxwell Food Centre and i jay-ran to it. Nothing to buy. HAHAHAHA but i was just bored. Do i sound like i live in Chinatown? Well, i certainly know my places.
Okay then i walked all the way back again(i can really walk even when i felt my left little toe rotting), taking snapshots that sometimes risked my life. HP camera, just in case people thought i was a patriotic girl who loves her heritage. Well, i actually do. HAHA. I passed by the screw-in-the-head guy again. I had an urge to go up to him and say,"Yo, buddy. What's that in your head? Is it real?" but I DIDN'T. I am by no means a tourist.
Back to the trains. Reached Hougang Mall at 5.10pm. I discovered there were lockers near the entrance of Mini Toons. WHAT THE...
I got something from Mini Toons, walked into The Bluez, the newly-revamped-but-still-shitty Ice Lemon Tee, blah blah. And as i was walking towards M.A.D(the shoe shop) this auntie in her sixties came pushing the cleaner's trolley just opposite me. I heard sounds of "PIAK~ PIAK~ PIAK~" even through the loud blasting music in my ears and took an anyhow look at where the sound came from. No lah i turned leisurely to see lah. ARE YOU READY?
Turns out that the auntie was POPPING BUBBLE WRAP with her hands inside the bin! She quickly closed the lid of the bin as i just managed to catch a glimpse of what the heck she was doing. OH MY GOD AUNTIE YOU ARE SO EMO! Hahaha. I wonder what happened to her. It was pretty much of a rude shock to me. Goodness.
Oh well after the absurd discovery i continued on to B1 to look for food. Yesterday night i was so bloody hungry that i couldn't get to sleep.
Well my right little toe started to rot as well; if not i would have walked home.
That is all for today.
UH HUH.
I almost died taking the bus this morning. Okay, not so serious. BUT I almost broke an arm. HAHAHA. It goes like this: I was on the steps of the bus with another girl on 27. The bus driver opened the doors without informing us and the door almost broke my arm. That. Is. All. Not very exciting? Okay. SKIP.
I reached school early at around 8.20am cause 15 happened to be at bus stop as i descended from 27.(BUT HECK it was bloody crowded.) I almost forgot how it feels like to take the bus during peak hours until today.
Anyway, i arrived early and decided to emo again. YEEHAW. Walked to Bedok Reservoir(one day i gonna walk the length of the canal and see how far i can go) and strolled around as long as my Blueberry sweet lasted, listening to emo songs. NOT really emo when songs from Hairspray or High School Musical come up. Meanwhile i saw a lot of people. OKAY not a lot. Like aunties or uncles doing random reflex exercises, and men jogging by. Got muscle leh KNOCK KNOCK -er, i mean- bounce bounce. LOOOOOOOOOOL.
HA! Then i went to get egg sandwiches from Sia Sze Boon. He will always be like,"来，小妹。" HAHAHAHHA so far-nee huh. Anyway after getting the sandwiches i ran out of places to emo so i walked around the triangular like an emo kid. Went to pay respects to the pinned-up cockroach as well. UCK~
HAHAHAHA. I love being morbid. Anyway, Italian today, well, is the same. But i sort of forget everything once i get out of the class. I wonder how i am going to pass. HECK.
Thereafter was lunch. And well there is no ComDI today, and tomorrow. So i went to the library and borrows CDs. Ultra cool. I got 4 of Linkin Park's and Keane's Under The Iron Sea. OLE. Then went up to the 7th floor to shake leg. HAHA Hokkien context please. And to the 2nd floor to use the PCs. Watched videos and MSN-ed a person who was right beside me. No, not a stranger. =D I found a book on Steve Irwin but ah well, i didn't borrow it cause i was lazy.
And i told Evelyn i am so gonna get Anberlin(she influenced me) and Boys Like Girls. But let's talk about the journey home first.
HA. Okay. So 15 to 27, and i got myself a stupid seat which is highly uncomfortable cause i can't touch the ground. Okay lah i can, but not if i sit all the way in. The privileged seats, those just behind the rear door. A lot of space and it was pretty abundant in that bus. Then this group of ITE students came up, and one guy stood beside me. And the stench of sweat was evident in every breath i take. HAHA. And he was holding on to the rings so it was like... ah NEVERMIND!
I think i have an unexplicable fate with loonies. I was seated beside this middle-aged guy with a giant backpack which he hits me with when he turns around looking at the roads. Then while we were reaching Sengkang, still in the expressway, he started to talk to himself and pointing here and there, as if telling himself,"It must be here". I didn't hear him cause i was listening to music. Anyway i had had enough of loonies and i shifted to another seat after the first SK stop. And he dropped off after that.
Uh-huh. I didn't feel like going home, so i went to Compass Point to emo somemore. Went full blast to Sembawang. The music centre lah gundu! HARK. And i found Boys Like Girls, but not Anberlin. Sigh. I doubt they would have anyway. Nevermind. One day i shall go to Chinatown to get Anberlin and Taylor Swift.
So. Now i have an influx of new songs in my iTunes and iPod. Shiok. Plus those that my brother got from his friend. Double shiok. Plus those i am gonna get my hands on. Shiok. Make that TRIPLE.
HA.
That is Italian for "How are you today?". That's right. I had my first Italian lesson today.
I woke up at 7am this morning. I can't afford to shut the god damn alarm and go back for ten or so more minutes' of sleep since no one will wake my up if i do so. Right. Anyway, i had to go to school earlier to print to bloody folio for 3D Art. Uh-huh. Reached earlier than expected at around 8.10am?
So i decided to find some dark and secluded spot to emo while waiting. WHILE munching on Binbin Rice Crackers(Yes, not Wangwang. This brand is far better). I ended up walking to Bedok Reservoir and coming back after 5 mins or so. I know, i am so freaking cool.
I went back to Xorex, printed, binded, noted. And up to class since the Design Space wasn't open yet.
Whatever. There's no one from my class, though another ADM class was there. Uh huh i am the solo ranger. Cool, eh? Anyway we learnt about alphabets, numbers and some other basic questions today. Oh the lecturer is really cool. She is a true Italian who graduated in Psychology in Milan and later became a lecturer who teaches Italian to foreigners. She taught in Bombay before moving here. And she gets all excited like a child who has found a penny from the floor when she successfully locates us in her namelist.
During breaktime i went to hand in my stuff. YES to all the good riddance. After class headed to the canteen for some quick bites. Pearlyn is in ComDI too BUT in another freaking class. Holy crap. People from our class are like all over the place.
ComDI is boring. I struggled not to fall asleep when half an hour into class barely passed. The lecturer just droned on and on about the bloody projects which seems to be HELL LOT. Alrighty. And we(ppl from our class) are going to Orchard Road on Wednesday to take photos of icons(ie. brand logos/signs). I suppose i would be skipping Chinese Orchestra then. The first formal session we are supposed to attend.
I am ultra tired can.
YAWN.
Buona notte~
(Yes i've got my notes all laid out in front of me.)
Know what? i just ended my MSN conversation with Didi who is now in China with Ah Pa and Ah Bu.
Wah like some long-distance relationship LOL.
I took this chance of mama not being around to spew vulgarities through the conversation. But i doubt she will know if she sees. LOL.
Cool hotel right? A computer in the room. They are at Shanghai now. DARN. Some ulu Old Shanghai place, my didi says. And they are moving out after tonight.
Well actually i didn't send them off this morning. I already gave up that thought after Mama told me they were setting off at 6.30am.
While they are away we are to do mundane tasks like
1. Watering the plants(i just came back from it and it took like so long to fill the watering can to fill up to the brim and so long to empty it)
2. On the engines. (Yes. I got so fed up by Mama that i am not doing it NO WAY.)
And we are not to
1. Cook in any form(she off-ed the main gas outlet or whatever you call it okay.)
I was so hungry and wanted to cook Maggie Mee and i realised that. In the end BOTH OF US went to CP to TAKEAWAY back. Tsk Tsk.
2. Not to cook.(Yes cook water using those hotel lookalikes, not the kettle.)
My mother believes that we cannot cook without starting a fire and she is more certain about it when two kids got burnt to death recently in their flat. It was in the newspapers.
So it's like a jail now. I shall take out my guitar and draw my eyes black and bob/swing my head furiously rock n' roll style to Elvis Presley's Jailhouse Rock(with that Jailhouse Rock hamster toy singing along).
School starts tomorrow. I mean, a new block starts.
9am-12pm Italian
12pm-3pm ComDI
UH HUH Italian. I am going to Paris. =D
