Sunday, April 23, 2006
Term 2 Time
I had wanted to say "It's Tiger Time" but somehow, school doesn't cut it. Back to all the lectures and the impromptu lunches and the fast food and the park and the wake-up-early-in-the-morning rituals and the bus rides and the tutorials and the books and the homework... Except for Anzac Day (whatever THAT is), the whole week is school again. Oh well, three weeks must end sometime, it can't go on forever...
Well I wish it would...
Got my Squidgy from Sharon and Melissa, and it's so huggable!!! Thanks, you guys just added artillery into my arms depot in the war against winter. Which I'm winning thanks to the household heater installed in every room.
We messed up that trip to D.F.O. in Cheltenham. During that journey, it really struck me that Singapore is indeed REALLY tiny, nothing compared to the vastness in Australia. In Singapore, what you see outside MRTs are HDB flats and houses and roads, but here there can be wide stretches with NOTHING AT ALL. Amazing. All that land idling there with nothing to do. Think of what Singapore could do with that land. Gosh. And you have to open the train doors yourself if you wanna get out, which is sorta weird. After getting off at Cheltenham, we got on the wrong bus in the opposite direction and sat in there like goondoos 20 minutes into the ride, wondering all the way what took the journey so long, since D.F.O. is only supposed to be 10 minutes from Cheltenham. Well, spent most of the time getting lost, so by the time we reached D.F.O. we had about 1 hour to shop. We made the most of it at least, but the trip back was the scariest and most tedious.
I had to take the bus, then the train and then the tram home. So the entire journey was about 3 hours, hooray... The bus wasn't too bad, what with Anita and Adlin there. Anita had another one of those stupid trick questions and we spent the majority of the journey figuring out the trick. I think the whole bus could hear her "OpenCloseCloseOpenCloseCloseCloseOpenClose" litany, and the guy who sat in front of us with those enormous pierced earrings and the people in the backseat sorta got involved too, haha. It was fun. On the train journey, it got so dark, like midnight, only the time was, like, 6pm??? It was my second time on a train, so getting off and everything was scary. By the time I was at the tram stop, it was officially night, and FREEZING. As in subzero freezing.
Still, the whole thing was an adventure, and even though I sorta scared myself shitless walking back home in the dark (there are hardly any street lamps here, geez), it was worth it. All of this happened on Friday actually. I was just too shmoozed on Saturday to blog.
Guess what was in my mystery package my parents sent me? A Creative MuVo S200 MP3 player, yay! My mother added a few recipes into the bundle, comprising mostly of mashed potato variations and egg stuff (oh, talking about egg stuff, I watched Iron Chef yesterday and the theme ingredient was egg. A cool stunt the Iron Chef Japanese pulled was he slowly poured egg yolk into a wok of boiling water and they instantly cooked themselves into some kind of fragile egg noodle. The visual effect was amazing. And du-uh, the Iron Chef won, against the Chinese challenger. But then again, the judges WERE Japanese...). One day I'm gonna try my hand at making something from those recipes, but for now I'll just sit back, relax and eat Subway.
I should probably get started on that leftover pasta too...eewwww... Hey, does anyone want to try out Water Margin Online? :)
I'MCRAZY!
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