things dont quite go right

yesterday was quite messed up.
 
i reached home about 1, that i mentioned earlier, so when i woke up at 10, i felt real tired, not coz of the late night, but rather, coz of the contact lenses. i really should stop wearing them. my body feels fine, but its my eyes that feels like its not been rested for ages.
 
anyway, i thought there'll be a cricket gathering of some sort (found out from nolan later that there actually was, but i think i would not have gone even if i am informed) but since i hadnt got any news about it, i suggested to my dad that we go watch king arthur. after spending some time on the pc and then settling lunch, we went to tiong bahru plaza (somehow with my dad, we always go there, i dont question why, less crowd, easier to get tickets, ive got nothing to complain)
 
i had been waiting to see king arthur. but when i walked out of the theatre after the show, i kinda left going 'is that it?' there isnt much, just good (but not excellent) battle scenes, over-courageous portrayal of king arthur by clive owen, and that's probably it. its nothing like i anticipated. it was quite disappointing, coz i cant even say it was very good. its just an ok movie.
 
left for great world city after that coz hasib wanted to get some CDs. i initially didnt plan on getting anything, but since this was a store that had good collection of chill out and lounge music, i was tempted to get some good compilation. but none of them was that good, they have double CDs, but very few outstanding songs, hardly the case for compilations. instead, i continued my tradition of getting greatest hits packages and unplugged/live CDs by getting the Boyz II Men hits collection and both the corrs and alanis morisette MTV unplugged. next one might be the jay-z unplugged, gotta look for more.
 
we decided to have dinner there, and had one at this super high class sort of japanese restaurant. you can tell that its not some ordinary restaurant the moment you enter the place, and my dad said its one of the two finest restaurant there is best for japanese food in singapore. even the items in the menu was very much different from the ordinary restaurants ive been to. very traditional japanese style. i hadnt been to such places in a long time, so it took me sometime before i could decided what i wanted to get, coz the usual items i tend to order were not available there. sad to say, the food was brought to us pretty late. i think we were there for more than an hour, and i think we spent about 30 to 40 minutes waiting for what we ordered. that was probably the only downside, but food was excellent. i hadnt had such a satisfying meal for some time too.
 
but then while waiting, and looking at the decorations and the ambience, i started wondering, is this what fine living means? how do we define a fine life, fine food? very expensive, but small portion of food in this kind of place? where people seem to want to eat in that specific place rather than wanting to eat the food? i could not come to an answer. my dad said that in these cases, worry about what you're eating than the price. but i think it outrageous that big executives are dining and paying half a grand and are satisfied, because they simply can afford it and not bother about what they're eating, so long as its at some high class place. i detest that kind of thing, as you can very well tell. but as my dad said, i just worried about enjoying the food and not let the waiting time or these questions bother my apetite.
 
by the time we left, it was close to 9, i intended to go to pasir ris for the council bbq and staying over (even though i wasnt going to stay over) and i thought that i'll be leaving an hour earlier. i thought since its so late, should i even bother? but then i wasnt in a rush, so i decided to go anyway. dad dropped me off at bugis, and i made my way there by the train. luckily, i didnt have to wait too long for the bus that took me to the place from the station. the number of people staying over were more than the usual, and i met kenneth, vincent and andy, for the first time since i came back. and i managed to talk to nolan a little more than the previous times (for once) we talked about the hidden story of king arthur that i didnt know about, that lancelot and guineviere was also attracted to eachother somehow and that it was supposed to form a love triangle. i kinda thought so during the movie, but it wasnt obvious, so learning that was a pleasant surprise twist to how the story would have turned out like. i think it would have made the movie more interesting if they concentrate more on the love triangle, like they did in troy.
 
by the time i arrived, everyone was pretty much in the settled down, starting to just talk mode already, so i didnt think that i'd stay that long. soon enough, people started leaving, and people started playing cards and the rest was watching eugene's band of brothers dvd, so i thought it'd be better i leave.
 
took one of those cab rides that seemed like an eternity, while different thoughts swirled around my mind. like how it'd be like when i come back here the next time and such.
 
i guess i'm getting into that mentality that i was significantly older as compared to 5 months ago. back in the last few days, i was going out non stop, really enjoying time. now its like, when im out, im out very late, and it feels like a lone ride back into an empty apartment kinda situation.
 
wonder how things will turn out when i settle in atlanta. 2 days til i find out my room mate. roughly 2 weeks til i leave. uncertainty beckons.