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Friday, August 06, 2004
Dammit. There's something seriously screwed with blogspot. Or maybe it's just my blog. I don't know. Anyhow. I'm damn damn annoyed. I typed in this really nice cheerful post about my day today just now and I clicked on 'publish post'. And what happens? I'm told that the URL doesn't exist and when I clicked on the back button, I find that my post's been completely eradicated. Poooofffle.
So yes. Shall just re-type whatever I can remember in this post. Still verrry irritated.
Today was National Day celebrations. Felt really primary school, singing all those National Day songs with fundamental messages like "I love Singapore!". There was a band on stage accompanying the teachers singing, which I thought was preeeetttty cool. Then there were the dancers. It was quuuiitee strange, but oh-well. I guess it was supposed to make the whole thing more interesting. Besides feeling extremely primary school like, especially when we stood on the chairs, I had a sudden desire to wave a tiny Singapore flag as I sang. Images of communists back in the 1960s popped into my mind, them with their red-and-yellow flags and patriotic, propoganda-ish songs.
School was out by 10am (a fact which I thought was the major highlight of the whole thing). Met Trina at about 11am and lunched at the Heeren Sakae. I love soft-shell crab handroll. It's yummy!! :) And the fact that it's not exorbitantly priced makes it even better - it just takes two rounds of $1.90 to make me a happy girl for the moment.
We wanted to watch Ella Enchanted but it wasn't showing anywhere in the whole of Orchard. Had to go down to Junction8 to catch our show - and spent $7.50 on a lousy front-row seat that distorts everything and everyone on screen. Even Nicole Kidman looked strange, and that's saying something.
Ella Enchanted was damn damn nice! And I think Anne Hathaway's gorgeous. I love her eyes. I think I liked the show so much 'cause I'm a HUGE sucker for fluffed-up fairy-tale endings with the girl landing up Living Happily Ever After with her wonderful Prince Charming. Long live innovation and thick-skinness among IJ girls. Tri and I decided to seat on the floor at the back of the cinema 'cause our seats were horrible. Went right to the back and found a couple of empty seats in the back row and just sat in them. That probably prevented me from blowing $7.50 watching distorted people on-screen while I develop a humongous neck-ache. Golden Village should really consider charging lower rates for front-row seats in the tinier cinemas. This is a case whereby Price Discrimination would be BENEFICIAL.
I've been struck with an earring obsession. Shopped for some more earrings today and I suddenly felt guilty 'cause I realised that I've been buying at least a new pair almost everytime I go out with anyone. Bad bad bad. Bought 4 pairs of earrings today. Oh dear. Tri's been bitten by a flower-earring bug so we were shopping around for nice flower earrings. Didn't manage to find anything particularly nice (except for this pair of prettypretty pink flower earrings at Heeren which cost 14 bucks). Argh. Stop buying earrings!!
I decided that I really do NOT like the red-and-white combination. I saw something like a million people in their red-and-whites today, 9 out of 10 of them were schoolkids. Seriously. The person who came up with the oh-so-brilliant idea of getting schools to allow students to wear their red-and-whites on celebration day didn't consider many other Terrible Things that could happen as a result of that. Celebration days are usually half-days in every school, meaning that almost the entire school-children population in Singapore will be out somewhere at any given time. If every school encourages their students to turn up in red-and whites, imagine the immense, nauseating HEADACHE someone not in red or white - like me - would experience upon having to tolerate walking among such glaring colours on almost everyone in the crowd. Grossness.
Still pissed at blogspot. Half-an-hour's worth of typing. Just gone. Like that. Argh.
Geog lect tomorrow morning. It should be made illegal for schools to have any lessons during long weekends. Seriously.
Bleeeeaaahh.
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