weekend update

i guess i didnt exactly blog about what i did over the sunday and monday.
 
since i came back from the council bbq at 1 am, i kinda woke up late on sunday morning. another trojan infected my pc, which i cant remove so far (backdoor.Trojan, if anyone knows any info to remove it, please do leave me a message) so i spent the next few hours going through message boards to see what i could do.
 
seeing that all methods were very tedious (and mostly out of my knowledge) i gave up.
 
my mom suggested we go drop by the thai embassy since they were having the food festival, so we went down in the afternoon. hot, but pleasant weather, great food made the afternoon seem pretty good.
 
went home, and then collected the dvds to return. i got an exchange for fan fan la tulipe, even though it was in a vcd version, i needed to see only the last 10 minutes, so i didnt really care. since the movie was so good, the ending really didnt matter, but it was just to satisfy my insistence that i see through the whole movie.
 
then we went to pasta fresca for dinner. since i ate my lunch at the thai embassy kinda late, i couldnt really eat much pasta. but being back at that place along 6th avenue is always pleasant. reminds me of the past couple of years that ive been there and all. back when the owner himself, mr. salvadore would serve us himself, and that time, when i was rushing for the FA Cup final, and we were gonna take out, he intercepted a pizza that was meant for someone else and told me to eat it there, coz he thought that we'd still make it in time for the match (which we did) and such... good memories. business has really flourished since then, we hardly see him now. even the spaghetti doesnt taste that good as time passed, but the atmosphere is still the same, a place i really enjoy going to.
 
dad didnt go to office on monday, coz it seemed to be a holiday in japan (the company follows japanese calender as well as singaporean ones) so he worked from home. in the evening, we went to the fullerton area, since my mom wanted to take pictures. the background lighting was pretty nice, so i took some pictures of the business district and the esplanade area, it should come out nice if i were to print them out.
 
then we went to newton circus for dinner. gosh, i cant recall the last time i went there. surprisingly, the guy who always served us drinks remembered us. we had the usual things, and it brought me back memories of the time when our relatives came, coz we would eat there.
 
so the past few nights have been memorable, or rather, very nostalgic. doesnt help the fact tt i keep thinking about when i have to leave.
 
on the way back, renewed membership for rentals, so that i could continue to feed my cravings for world cinema. i only rented one foreign cinema this time, which was bon voyage (was watching til just now, but i had to stop since hasib wanted to watch smallville) i still have about 30 mins to go, but my, its another excellent one, very very interesting the way how different characters all get tangled up. i also got frida, the four feathers, my big fat greek wedding (i didnt find it as nice as everyone made it sound) and my dad got a steven seagal movie marked for death.
 
i am so going to get the couple of the ones i noticed the next time round.
 
i had to wake up pretty early today, coz jonas wanted me to talk to one of his seniors who also does the forever living network marketing. i understood the system much better, but i still have no intention of joining.
 
went to see chahat for lunch later on. we initially intended to go out today, but she had her off day yesterday instead of today, so we settled for a short lunch.
 
i went to HMV to check out some CDs, looks like they're on a major renovation. but i managed to listen to some. i managed to check out a jazz artist i saw when i went to see king arthur, named renne olstead, and my, she's one heck of a good singer! a very good find, i have to get her CD. and then i was shocked to find out later on on amazon.com (i usually check the reviews there before decing to buy any CDs) when i found out that renee is only 14! i thought she was 28 somethin by the pictures and the voice! if you thought joss stone was good, renee olstead is better!
 
sports update... its old news, but its fantastic that ralf schumacher is driving for toyota next season. and nakata signs up for fiorentina, that was a surprise. double deals for nicky butt and patrick kluivert for newcastle is expected by this weekend. sad news is that gary speed might be on his way out. butt is a good replacement, but im not really sure about kluivert, he's demandind and doesnt work too well with others.
 
on the other hand, 3 out of the 4 teams i thought will make the semis in copa america made it. well, had paraguay not won against brazil, i think i would have seen all that i anticiapted; argentina, colombia, brazil and mexico. now instead of mexico, its uruguay. i think it should be argentina-brazil final. good stuff expected. asian cup, slow start, but number of surprises so far. but its still too early to tell. i hope it will somehow be an iran-japan final.

im trying to check my hall assignment... i guess it works by Eastern Time than the computer clock. that means i gotta check after midnight, or most probably tomorrow morning. im very anxious if i got the freshman experience program or not.
 
okay, i gotta get back to finish off 'bon voyage'...