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National Day Eve
[[ I know the date says national day, but this entry is about the day before national day. :) ]]
I’m broke! Oh my god, I’m broke. I hate the feeling of being broke, but yes, I am broke! Damn it, I haven’t been able to save money recently, because every time I have extra cash lying around, I have to use it to pay my never ending debts. All the birthday presents are driving me to the poor house! Yes, I’m bloody hell bitter about it because people’s birthdays are all so close to each other!!! ARGH! I’ll dump like $20 on someone next week and everyone else’s birthday present money will be settled, except for Darren’s which is way in December, thank god. I’ve left with what, $3 for the week, and there’s still 5 more days to go!!! Okay, maybe I could exclude Sunday, since I’m always rotting at home on Sundays. But that’s still 4 days!!! Argh, I will start taking money from my parents and having to come up with a wonderful reason for what happened to the rest of my allowance for the week.
National day celebration was a bore. Seriously committed social suicide with the video, but whatever, don’t really care? Totally skipped mass dance and went to find Aaron to go out. Perhaps it would have been wise to have loitered around in school longer before we left. We ended up reaching orchard at like what, 10.00am? The klutz got black paint on his shirt which even thinner (is that how you spell it) couldn’t remove. Everything was closed, which wasn’t entirely surprising. It was bloody 10.00am!!! So we decided to walk all the way to takashimaya to sit at Mac Donalds and eat something light. We planned to have a buffet lunch at Sakae, just for contextual knowledge on why we were eating something light.
We managed to kill about an hour plus there. Next, we managed to make our way to Wheelock Place, where we spent quite a lot of time there looking at the books and CDs.
Something really interesting we saw on our way to wheelock place. It was on a billboard.
Something that is really starting to annoy me further; smokers. Damn, they should seriously all vanish. (Shall refrain from using die? Maybe because some people’s parents smoke too.) How socially retarded is smoking? It isn’t cool, it kills you, it makes you appear unhygienic and low class, it stinks, it produces litter, it kills others who breathe in the smoke and it basically sucks! I always try to make clear to smokers that I do not approve of what they are doing by covering my nose and mouth and walking away really quickly. Sometimes even fanning the air in front of my face very vigorously.
Of course, walking away really quickly doesn’t work all the time does it? This brings me to the second irritant that most Singaporeans are. Why do you have to walk so slowly all the time? Especially in crowded places where there is little space to manoeuvre around and over take a snail. Honestly, some people walk so slow that they should jolly well not walk at all. I was glad that Aaron pissed this lady off today by deliberately overtaking here and walking really slowly in front of her, blocking any other routes to let her overtake at the same time. Yes, we are probably conceived to be childish and have nothing better to do, but it proves a point! I suggest the government start splitting up the walkway into the fast and slow lane.
Managed to waste a bit more time at the arcade by playing one of those mindless games where you just jam the buttons to kill the enemies’ minions. Wasn’t really in the mood for DDR and besides, there were a couple of pros hogging the machine. Made our way to bugis because we decided not to eat at heeren. We met up with the SHPS people there. Poor Yu Hui lost her camera. So in the end, they cheered her up by taking neoprints with her. Haha.
The first time they took consisted of only Aaron, Yu Hui and Nicole. I was already too broke then to take neoprints and I didn’t want to go into debt by borrowing money. Whilst cutting and distributing the first set of neoprints, there was enough time for YY and Yi Xiang to come. So the five of them went to take again. Nicole got pretty riled up with the stupid machine which somehow, doesn’t allow you to erase stuff. Neoprint machines shouldn’t cock up!!! It will drive its customers crazy, especially when there is a race against time to have everything decorated before the time is up.
Aaron and I had lunch after that, and there was this free comedy show in front of us, consisting of a huge group of bimbotic girls who were getting a huge kick out of taking photos of one another posing with their food. I managed to eat about 20 plus plates and for once, I was comfortably full, not painfully full like what Aaron was after he stuffed down his last two mochi dumplings. Just for future reference, always go to bugis sakae to eat because they have fairly good service there and they serve the nice ice cream like mochi dumpling there, instead of the weird pasty one at parkway.
Somehow after walking around for a bit, we managed to find it within us to get bubble tea before we headed for the bus stop to go home. Maybe I shouldn’t have gotten the drink because I would presumably be slightly less broke if I had just gone home instead. Oh well, what’s done is done. No use crying over spilt milk.
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Little Class Project that we had embarked on to help the YFC people.
Something very amusing that we ran into at Bedok. Hope you all can see the words.
Very cute right?!
farcical-rants - 12:12 pm - Wednesday, August 09, 2006
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