quick summary

ok i changed my mind, i feel better after that outburst, so im gonna continue.

where did i stop the last time....

ah. wednesday. more or less a family day, sorta. i cant exactly recall what i did, but i know my headache still has not gone away (even as im typing this right now) whenever im in the car, or eating, or at times, just randomly, it bugs me. i seriously start to wonder whats wrong. anyway, back to wednesday, late but light breakfast, a little of copa america, when i watched for a while, argentina was 4-1 up against ecuador, which became 6-1 at full time, (saviola bagging a hat-trick) and then we went to this place near china town for lunch at this indian store. food's excellent, and there was a german couple on holiday and it was clear they shared the same opinion too. as they were leaving, this afro guy was going 'goooood foood' and then when he left, he said bye and thanks to the people there, as they were returning to germany that night, and said that it had been a pleasure having lunch for the past couple of days. very nice of them. and then, my dad, being always the easy to talk to kind of guy, found out that two of the people came from his homeland, mednipoor, if i spell it correctly. so obviously they clicked and started talking about lots of things.

im ever amazed by my dad's ability to get people's attention, and even if he's a stranger to them, he can fire up a conversation like he knew the people for some time. its one ability i would love to pick up, but have not been too succesful. i guess i'll polish it up as i spend time in america, almost everyone's super friendly and easy to talk to there, i noticed.

we went to little india for a while, coz hasib needed to get new batt for his hp. i saw couple of CDs for sale at 5 bucks, and after looking through the pile, i found two albums, one by Digable Planets, an old school jazz-rap band, which is pretty gd, and the collaboration of Jay-Z and R. Kelly's The Best of Both Worlds, which would have been a commercial success had it not been for R. Kelly's underaged sex lawsuit, which effectively prevented him from promoting the album. its pretty ok though, not bad.

then i met junli for light and early dinner, before she headed off to NUS for her dance. we mainly talked uni stuff, since we were together for roughly an hour, but we did manage to squeeze in little updates as well.

i went home, intended to catch dogville confessions, but decided not to, and then went to serene to return the dvds and rent 4 more. this time i picked 'The Recruit' (cool espionage, but doesnt quite make the cut, impressed me enough though) 'Taxi 3' (pretty funny, eye-opener, but this falls into the category of typical european film thats notorious for being a little too boring and flat) 'Head of State' (thumbs up to funnyman chris rock, i just love this jokes, but it was a so-so movie) and also a serb-croatian film called 'No Man's Land' which i probably will watch tomorrow.

played one on one monopoly with hasib til like 1 AM, i eventually won by a staggering amount, but hey, when we play with only two players (dont know why we did that, too bored?) there's always the poor and the rich. i lost the previous time against koustav, but nailed this one against hasib.

thursday... i was looking forward to it, since i was gonna watch mean girls. chahat had somethings to deal with in the morning, so we met a little later than we hoped to, but i guess it turned out for the better. while waiting, someone tried selling me those tickets for discount at some restaurants and usually i would just refuse it, but seeing that this person's shift was ending and she had only sold like 4 tickets after such a long time (noticed by the number of torn sides that she was showing me), i decided to just buy the ticket. i guess my mom would wanna try some vietnamese food anyway. and then some discount for dr.marten's, i might need some leather shoes. plus, she was a pretty sincere and nice person, so i kinda gave in in the end.

since we couldnt get tickets for an earlier show, which i was not surprised, since it was the opening day, but i was surprised at the fact that they werent showing that frequently. so as usual, we walked around orchard talking about all sorts of things. it is just super nice to talk, especially when it doesnt seem to end. i dont share that with a lot of people, probably hazril and chahat only. yeah, so then we watched mean girl, finally.

i must say, SNL's Tina Fey did a good job at scripting the movie, coz it was funny, and not lame, and unlike other usual chick/bimbo films, this had proper substance. jokes were not stupid/slapstick funny, but really something to laugh at, and we were laughing for most of the movie, which doesnt happen that often for me. so yeah, this is one hilarious movie everyone should catch, and even though i wouldnt wanna pay for it, i'd love to watch it again. and lindsay is hot girl!

but somehow through the movie, i realized i was laughing at some bits which i thought was funny, but noticed the others werent laughing. did they not get the joke or is my sense of humour different? then i thought about the joke, i guess it wasnt actually relevant to singaporean type of joke, so maybe thats why i understood some jokes and the others didnt. not trying to say anything, but it is weird when you notice things like that at times.

yeah... and then today, initial plan was to reformat the pc and get new router, but catherine called me, and since i hadnt seen her for almost like a year and a half, i decided to go meet her. and it turned out just so great. even though we hadnt seen eachother for so long, we talked about a whole lotta stuff and i truly enjoyed myself. winfrid joined us for while later on, when we were at PS, and then he and i went to SA together to see couple of people, including some teachers. hands up to Wayne, Lionel, Jwu Mei, Adrianna, Jonas, Peter, Perry, Halim and others who won prizes. i guess it ended very well with that ever enthusiastic old boy who sang the college song with so much energy, it makes you wanna sing along so loudly and proudly.

met couple of teachers too, as well as the 27th council, who seem like a fun loving bunch.

will be going to the airport to send maddie and kuan sian off, as they start a new chapter in UQ. mine's not that far away. might delay the departure to 1st Aug, gotta see the availability of the tickets.

my cousin should be coming tomorrow morning, so for now, signing off.