Today I had a somewhat fun time going out with my sec 4 classmates (6 of them; Elaine, Min Rui, Winnie, Sirong, Cheng Yu, Hui Ping). It was a trip to Bugis.. nothing fanciful, except the 3 TJCians so happened to find each other just as we arrived at the train station (talk about coincidences). Walked about and found Cheng Yu. Took a look at the movie timings (which sucked, big time, 1310hours and the next show was at 1725hrs). The cinema at Bugis really, really sucks. Trust me. It was only screening THREE movies; Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Zathura and Prime. Most of us caught HP a long time ago (considering I was the last to finish my exams, I would think most of them watched it as I sulked at home), Sirong didn't want to catch Zathura so we settled for Prime (which was a mistake, as you will see later on).
Walked about, mainly to find a place to eat as we were starving and eventually decided on this little eatery selling Western cuisine (think chips, pasta and the likes) called Terra. As usual, I had fish and chips, which was pretty amazing I tell you. The plate was probably 1.5 times the size of my face, I had 3 cripsy fish slices, lots of fries, one heap of coleslaw and TARTARE sauce!!! Many western food stalls ALWAYS fail to serve tartare sauce, which I love. The others had grilled chicken chop (2 of them), salmon baked rice and seafood aglio olio. Service there was pretty good, the staff there were polite (we were being called "ma'am" and "ladies" hahaha) except they seem to keep forgetting to bring us the soup spoon. Anyway, Elaine found us after arriving late. Walked about, and went off to take neoprints.
I basically fail horribly at this whole neoprint thing, considering this is my 2nd time standing in front of a neoprint machine. The first time was in sec 2 and I let my classmate do all the button pressing and this time..... I let Sirong and Winnie do all the selecting and pressing. Yes, I have absolutely no idea how to work the thing. I mean, it's in Japanese!!! I have problems comprehending Chinese when I'm Chinese by race and you expect me to work something that has Japanese instructions?!?!?! The pictures (we took 6) churned out ok... except in 2 of them, I had one eye considerably larger than the other. Yes, I look like a freak (why does that NOT surprise me anymore?? Yes, face it, I can't look good in pictures, it's just not natural). Following the neoprint saga, we got HuiPing's present (and made myself more broke in the process) and basically walked about for the next 3 hours (till Elaine and I caved in and settled for a 45min ice cream break in McDonalds while the others continued wandering). Ice cream does wonders for ulcers, mainly 'cause it numbs the pain.
We caught Prime at 5 plus, and the theatre was horrible. The lighting was negligible and we guessed our way to our seats. The movie was terrible. Lemme spoil it for you guys so you won't waste your money catching it.
Basically, it's about this 37 year old divorcee Raffi (played by Uma Thurman) who falls in love with a 23 year old artist Dave. The catch is, Raffi visits her therapist Lisa (Meryl Streep) pretty often and Lisa is Dave's high-strung, Jewish mother. Lisa wants nothing more for Dave than to marry a Jewish girl and have Jewish kids. Raffi proceeds to spill out all the juicy bits about her relationship with Dave (at one point in time, she spoke about sex with him and his *cough* manhood). Eventually, Lisa pieces the bits togethering and finds out that Raffi is dating her son. It comes to a point where Lisa confesses to her identity as the mother of Dave. Basically, soon after, Dave becomes this useless, good-for-nothing bump who feeds off Raffi and they break up after a fight. They break up. Dave gets a deal off Raffi's contact and starts earning an income. Dave sleeps with a model who works with Raffi. Raffi and Dave get back together. Raffi finds out about the model. They break up. They get back together and eventually, they break up. One year later, Dave notices Raffi at a restaurant and stares at her through the window, Raffi notices him, they smile. End of movie.
Can I say something? I THOUGHT THAT WAS AN UTTER WASTE OF MY TIME!!! I don't see the point in them breaking up and getting back together continously if it were to end like that. It gets dreary, repetitive and boring. Yes, the story is supposed to be sweet, but it's sweet in an extremely boring way. It's a movie for goodness' sake!!! I don't care if someone did that in real life (althoughI would think that the woman was severely deluded) but man, to show that in a movie???? That was in bad taste. So take my advice, whatever you do, do NOT watch Prime.
Anyway, Cheng Yu gave me an advance birthday present. For one, I'm surprised that she remembered, 'cause I don't remember hers (did I ever mention I'm bad with dates? This is so uncharacteristically female but yes, I am bad with dates, I can never remember an important date, well hardly anyway). Well, she gave me a wallet (is she psychic?? Did she see in her crystal orb that I was thinking about replacing my wallet even though I haven't seen her since March 2004???). It isn't the kind of wallet that I would usually use... similar, yet different as compared to be current wallet. I like my current wallet, it's been with me for 6 years. The only grouse I have is the loose clip and the peeling leather. Other than that, I like my wallet, maybe except that it's too big to find into any pockets, but I have since developed the habit of putting my wallet in my bag or holding it in my hand. The gift was a red (jean-motif) Hony Teddy Bear wallet. Yes, I can see the more perverted readers going "HORNY!?!?!?!" No, it's HONY. Not honey, not horny, but hony. I just look a look at the wallet and realised it doesn't have enough slots for my cards. Cards I have include
1. My identity card 2. My student's pass 3. My resident's pass 4. My condominium's side gate pass 5. My National Dental Centre appointment card (seeing cute dentist in 7 days' time) 6. My ATM card 7. My pocket calendar 8. My grandmother's funeral "souvenir" (or memorance as I rather call it)
8 cards and 2 slots in the red wallet(Did I ever mention that I don't really like red? I used to hate it but I guess I'm now a lot more neutral and accepting of it hehe). And I have a tendency to carry lots of coins around and the coin slot is too small, it's sewn into a wallet.. how do I describe it? Ack, nevermind, As much as I appreciate the thought, I'm afraid this wallet can't do it for me, unless one day, I throw away just about 75% of the cards I have now hehehe. Anyway, I think it was sweet of her to remember that I have my birthday next month and I really, really like the gift 'cause the thought was there. I wish her good luck in her application to UC Berkley and hope she gets the scholarship.
Testimonial collection tomorrow and I shall TRY to remember to bring the camera (nicked it from my bro's room). I have no intention of taking pictures with most of the class, just Teresa, Eng Hooi and co. Hahaha, would love to see the kind of politically correct stuff that's on mine. Can you imagine if they didn't have to be politically correct? Things like "disinterested in class", "sarcastic", "cynical", "unsociable" would appear in it. Hehe, we'll see then.
Gonna end off here, be back tomorrow (and I am probably going to resume my game in the SIMS2 tomorrow as well).
Phoe
P.S. Elaine, haha by today, I guess you can more or less confirm that the 2 of us weren't given the shopping genes. Lol. The others were so tempted to buy the Mickey Mouse clothing apparel and the 2 of us just shrugged and said "no, we weren't tempted" (at least the idea was there).
I'm a 3rd year student in what is probably the largest autonomous university in Singapore majoring in a Science-related subject (well it sorta IS SCIENCE). I'm known to be introverted, sarcastic (at times), funny when I rant (which isn't a good thing lol) and somewhat of a loner. I miss LA and would move there in a heartbeat :(
