hello people! christmas is coming! just 31 more days!
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army has been fine. we spent today playing one and a half games of risk and planning the bangkok trip i'm gonna take with the army boys somewhere mid december. it's all horribly exciting, cause it's the first time i'm going to bangkok ever, and er, none of us have ever been there alone without our families before. plus, we're gonna catch the pingpong show! and go to the many bars! and the pingpong show (ask geow)! and shopping! and cheap food! and the pingpong show!
off to book the airtickets now. haha see ya'll when the exams end.
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heard the mousse t song on the radio at esprit, and was inspired to search for the video on youtube (circa 1998. and have i ever mentioned i love youtube? it's perfect for those nights when you've got absolutely nothing to do!). does anyone realise that they distribute condoms freely in the video? like literally throwing them on the streets? what an interesting idea.
the 7 of us took neoprints today too. something i havent done since j1 (steph and zhu! remember the big boobies pictures we took with cass?). the shop was called 'pretty in tokyo', which didnt help calm the jittery feeling that people witnessing our entry into the shop would question our collective manhood. we took over a booth in the corner (reina! it's the same booth where we took neoprints on your birthday! the one with the switchable backgrounds!), and er, proceeded to scream out instructions at each other. literally scream. there's something about the nice lighting, the ticking countdown, and the strange gibberish that is japanese on the scream that brings out the inner boy in everyone. after 200+ seconds, and much shoving, pushing and scuffing for the sole chair we had the sense to bring it (despite the fact that there were 2 other stools outside the booth, we all just had to fight for the small pink stool), we emerged with 42 neoprints, 6 each. and ohmygod, i haven't acted this cute since ever. it was like the combined testosterone of 7 males shoved into one tiny booth managed to get us all behaving like japanese schoolgirls, with the ability to only come out with the most nauseating poses ever.
we came out to many a curious stares.
casino royale isnt that great by the way, though i can understand why everyone's been heaping praises on dan craig. he's interesting lah.
cos duties tomorrow, which is rather exciting. see ya'll on sunday!
p.s why has fcuk stop selling the 'hot as fcuk' t shirts for girls?
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ok. that came out a bit snobbish-ish.
i think im in love with starbucks again. i love the way it's the epitome of the globalized materialism that has entrenched the whole world. plus, the cute snow flakes and cheesy christmas carols help. oh and the nice hot chocolate and divine mango frapp.
don't talk to me about calories.
met minglong at starbucks too! he was studying for his chem mcq tomorrow. and well, lets just say minglong was minglong, and leave it at that shall we.
i'm reading 'god of small things' (get your mind out of the gutters), and it's a delish book. it reminds me of curry, and naan, and that nice indian smell that wafts through the air when you walk by a shop.
i'm hungry.
for krispy kremes?
please, steph! make my day!
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whether it's offical or unoffical is another matter.
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it's become a ritual of sorts now, everytime someone goes overseas (like uk. america. australia), i perpetually bug them to get me kripsy kremes as souviners. it sure beats getting a cheesy magnet to stick on the fridge, or one of those horrible 'my friend went to _____, and all i got was this t shirt' shirts. god forbid anyone should ever give me one. kripsy kremes should really just open a store in singapore. what with the the hordes of greedy gluttons over here, it'd be a suprise if they didn't manage to conquer the heartlands in a year.
having said that, the krispy kremes my aunt brought back from new york have been finished by yours truely, and er, will the next person coming back from wherever help me buy a box please? i'd be eternally grateful!
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we've somehow morphed into pre-yuppies somewhere along the way this year. gone are the days when sitting on the starbucks couch at holland v with a mocha in hand and eternally free flowing whip cream a short trip down the stairs was cool. it's now the chocolate factory and late night walks along clarke quay. where the expensive penthouses are and where we dream of owning one each. somewhere along this year, we've all been jolted into the realisation that the true singapore is utterly different from the slice of singapore that we've been growing up with. and with the changes, we've all changed to. matured perhaps. degressed in social behavoiur perhaps. it's weird looking at people without the familar comfort of school as a background. everyone's in a different place now, and sometimes it's amazing the the bunch of ya'll/us can even still connect.
the one thing i've been struggling with is the gradual drifting of friends due to circumstances. it makes you wonder if your friendship wasn't due entirely to the situations you were in, and that without them ya'll have nothing in common. it's hard letting go without a tinge of anger/sadness. and yet, there sometimes really is nothing you can do about things, because well honey, it takes 2 hands to clap.
perhaps in 5 years time, we'll no longer be current friends. rather, whenever we meet we will reminisce about the good old days in school where we cut classes, copied each other's answers during tests, and the silly old games we use to play. would that make our friendship of any less value? at the end of the day, would you consider friends who's basis of friendship with you is in the past, proper friends? or should the definition of friends instead be people who are with you when you experience new things. can you consider friendships based on the past 'alive' friendships, because really, at the end of the day, the relationship has reached its' limit of growth, and perhaps it'll forever be stunted.
i've no idea what i'm talking about really. put up with me.
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it's utter nonsense, but what the hell, who cares?
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in other news: the army might be sending me to australia next sunday for 3 weeks, so if you suddenly don't hear from me for a long period of time, then well, i'm probably in the middle of the australian desert, roughing it out with the wallabies and the scorpions. yeah, it's last minute, sudden and depressing. but on the bright side, there's only a 25% chance that it might happen! so, well. i've always been kinda lucky so far in my army life. here's to hoping the luck will hold.
make love, not war and all that jazz people. im off to drown myself in a book.
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