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# Singapore's A Small Place
Monday
Let's see, it was a rather eventful monday yesterday. Hmmm.. what di di do at work again? It's getting harder and harder to remember. Now i know why im supposed to keep a log of it. Should i do it now? Lazy lar... ok fine, i should before i totally forget everything.. Ok done. Yes, i actually completed my work log until today. Most probably gonna look for more work later. No im not crazy. Im gonna have to do it anyway, might as well do it when im bored out of my mind right?
Ok, anyway, back to the fun part of Monday. After school.. Oh wait.. school was actually quite fun (=
Why? Cuz Juliana came back to relief Mrs Poon for Physics. Im jealous she go tto teach physics. But oh well, at least i got to teach (= (=
I was quite embarrassed that i had to ask Juliana her name, cuz i sort of remembered it, but then, didn't dare guess cuz it might be wrong, so yeah, asked her, and yup, it was Juliana. Knew her from LEO club, i think. But i've also seen her ard school, so yeah, im not that blur lar
Ok ok, so wanted to help her get into the place so brought her to Eugene's place, and apparently we were teaching her all the "bad things" according to Cal Vin. Oh well, it's always more fun relief teaching that way.
Wanted to help Juliana sign in, so we headed to the HUB to get her paper, but nobody was in the GO, so we decided to go to the HUB instead to get her EZLink card done... but so stupid.. it wasn't even 9am yet, so we went to stone for a while...
But before we were even the slightest bit hardened from stoning, we met Zhi Rui! To the uninformed, she the Vice President of the 28th Students' Council. Also, she an awesome art student who's coursework occupied an entire room in TJ! Cool eh? It was a whole room filled with small glass bottles that were filled with coloured water and that made a nice design. Really really cool piece of art. Anyway, what swas she doing back in TJ? She was called back to paint a mural in the TRCResearch @ East Zone. What's that? It's basically the TRC being made a COE. What's a COE, that's a Centre of Excellence. What's a Centre of Excellence? Go visit MOE's website to find out. I dun really want to know either, but it's quite cool considering we are installing a multithousand dollar CCTV system in there, with cool scanners and whatever else.
Ok, back to the interesting part, Zhi Rui was bringing painting stuff to the TRC or R@EZ or whatever u wanna call it, so they decided to use the lift cuz the painting stuff was in a trolley. So we boarded the lift, 5 of us... and it was too heavy.. saded.. i had to step out. ... BOooOooOOoo..
So i hopped upstairs even before the lift arrived. HAH!
Anyway, then we had to go back down to get old TA banners to cover the carpet in TRC. So i had the chance to ride the elevator in the end! Hehehe!!! Cool (= but slow...
Oh well, took all the stuff, pasted it to the floor... or kind of actually cuz masking tape and carpets aren't exactly the closest of friends, especially not when u have an old banner in between. Then Juliana and I decided to get the more important things settled first, so we went down to the GO, signed her contract, then went to the HUB, got her EZLink card done (btw, Juliana thinks the EZLink card design is new.. haha!) then went back to the staffroom and started real work.
Soon, it was time to leave... FOR KINOKUNIYA!!
Yup, it's time to spend $80 before they expire. So fun right? I couldn't have been more wrong.
Took 38 on which i met Maddy!! Hope ur test turned out good (= Then took MRT all the way down to Orchard, walked into Taka and called FX, she was with Audrey and Odelia (i think that's how ur name is spelt, sorry if it's wrong). She told me she was a Christian Dior that side, so i looked at the directory, found dior.. actually found where it was, didn't find the shop exactly... cuz i was so blur i didn't realise Christian Dior's shop only had the word Dior on it... =/
So i went back and forth looking for CHRISTIAN dior.. And when i finally found it, FX wasn't there, so called her again, she said she's at Tommy Hillfiger (however his unimportant name is spelt). Looked at directory again, and this time even better. TH is not even in the directory. Haha!! So i wasndered around Taka for like 10 minutes until i realised, it had to be in the departmental store, so i took the "shortcut" there by going out of the tower A side and straight into tower B. While at the very same moment, Aunty Fang decided to walk towards me from inside. So... yeah.. we didn't meet each other. When i finally gave up looking for her, Audrey called. Then she said they were at the info counter, and finally, a place that CANNOT be mixed up.
Walked towards it, and within 1 minute, i met Audrey and Odelia (whom I've never met before in my life). And to my no-longer-suprise-able surprise, FX wasn't with them because she was looking for me. =/
So we went back into Taka to find her, and funny thing is she called me, and Aud and Ode spotted her calling and then finally, met FX, and the whole bunch was complete. According to FX, it was me with 3 babes. Haha... Well, basically, it was FX and her TKGS friends. At least I knew Aud so it wasn't weird or anything.
So we shopped around for a bag charm
Definition : things u attach to your bag
By : Audrey
Paraphrased by : me :)
Apparently thats what i understood it was, so we shopped for that for a while, then decided to go Kino when FX couldn't find anything she liked. Aud had $80 voucher too, so it wasn't just me hunting for a book. I could drag FX, Aud and Ode along too! Haha... so we wandered into Kino, looked for the Engin section, found it, and along with it, my nightmare.
There were SO MANY ENGIN books. And they were on SO MANY different topics, and by SO MANY different companies, using SO MANY (u get my drift by now ryte?) types of notations and styles. So.. after about 15 minutes of looking, i gave up and decided to go and buy stationery instead. On the way, FX pulled out a rather out-of-topic book, why humans enjoy sex. LOL... Way too random.
Found the stationery place, nothing much there other than cute ESPIRIT books, gay pink notebooks, lots more gay stuff, tiny cute stuff, tiny cute and gay stuff, redundant stuff, stuff u'll never use, stuff tat's ONLY nice to look at, and more useless stuff. The best of all, they were ALL overpriced. I could actually save money by not buying stuff using the voucher there i think.. *swt*...
So then, after realising that i was going to get ripped off buying stationery, i went back to the Engin section alone, while FX, Aud and Ode continued looking at stuff. Called Bert in desperation and he helped me to narrow down my selection... By about 50% leaving me 50% of the Library of Alexandria to search for a gem.
Yup, you guessed it, i gave up trying to buy an engin book. Why? Because Bert can pass me down year 1 books, so i tried to find year 2 or 3 books, but Bert is not in Mech Engin, so he doesn't know exactly. Also, NUS has this annoying habit of only announcing books they are going to use like 1 week before the lecture starts, so yeah, dream on about trying to buy books 2 years in advance... I tried... i tried... that's what matters right?
NOT, i still had to use $80 or it'll be like totally wasted. Stationery. All $80 of it was very tempting, but Bert then said maybe i should buy Maths books. After hopelessly drowning in formulas, i called Bert again, read out some names of chapters to him, he didn't know much except to tell me what chapters he has studied (year 1 engin ones) so i could avoid them. But there's are two stupid things about buying books in this world.
1 - the books are sealed
2 - the names don't really help
Take these few words
-Advanced
-Mathematics
-Higher
-Engineering
Permutate them any way u want
Advanced Engineering mathematics
Engineering higher mathematics
Higher Mathematics for Engineering
Mathematics for advanced engineering
And ta daa~~~ u get a new title of a book.
So how on earth am i supposed to figure which one works?
So after boring Aud to death and Ode to sitting down on the floor... I decided on a book
Only to have to bookshelf have the last laugh when the display copy was the only one left.
So i went through the head-spinning process of selecting another book, only for it to be the last copy AS WELL...
So.. i bought it.
I WIN... (so not the point)
Bought two pens to top up till $80 and stepped out of Kino
FREEEDDDDOOOOOMMMMMMM!!!
Yes, i felt my entire world feel less gloomy.
FX left already as she had something on, so it was just me, Aud and Ode. Then we decided to walk around Taka for a bit, realising we;re not up to standard, went outside and i bought the Ah Pek Ice Cream. Hehe, nice one (=
Then decided to be extra and suggested we ride the escalator all the way up to lvl4 Food Republic in Wisma. Walked around food republic, commented on the food, and got threatened by a Durian [insert some chinese word for a type of food here] by Aud and then went down. Walked around Wisma. Spent a bit of time in places like edc, Topshop, MNG (or Mango, i know its the same thing now =)
Interesting in Topshop, threatened Ode with a yellow/silver shiny tube top, tried to figure out how this long top was supposed to fit anyone, looked for Ode between clothes, and learnt what Jelly shoes are. Yup, spent quite a lot of time in there, wandered around quite a bit.
Actually, that's what we did for like 3 hours? Haha, at least it was much better than Kino. Seriously much better. Got to know a bit more abt Ode and Aud. Both going NUS *high five* and FASS. Ode's from FCBC and Audrey, yeah, Calvary. Ode has a twin sister, who's going to engin too, chem. With my face-recognition software being out of date, im sure to mix them up. EEeekk.
Okay, i also had the privilege of finding out that some girls are less shopping-educated as me. Hahaha! At least when it came to one thing. Audrey knows Paperchase, but not Prints. Ode knows Prints, but not Paperchase. So after wandering almost all of Atria, we walked all the way to Borders. And when we stepped in, apart from feeling so much better than in Kino, the door alarm went off..
Haih... just as i was feeling better, realised the noob guy at Kino didn't UN-whatever-it-is-they-do my book, so it rang the Borders alarm. Sian... the guy summore ask me questions like where i got the book from, why is it still sealed (freaking i don't want it sealed larr.. hello.. read above part of this post can?) and other stupid stuff.
Like hello... Im going to steal a book from Kino and secretly sneak it in to Borders. So scheming of me right?
Anyway, apart from the fact that he didn't see it was a Kino bag, Kino price tag AND Kino receipt which i produced, he took the stuff away, did something and gave me back. IM HAPPY.
So we moved on and jumped straight to Paperchase and Ode was enlightened. Found rather interesting stuff, and she almost bought a black pencil tin (or so its called) with colourful horses on them. Found out you get ripped off if you buy the first deck of Borders playing cards cuz its $3 more expensive than the rest in the pile... and random other stuff.
Then we decided to go to Heeren cuz it's quite a hip place. And i found out it has 5 levels. Most fun part was action city. So many cute stuff. Like the evil safe that laughs at u if u get hte combination wrong. And Action City has good taste in music. Linkin Park (=
Ok, after realising i was actually going to be late, i left for tuition, and took the same bus back as Ode as she stayed in Marine Drive or somehting of that sort. Aud was nice enough to wait for us to get our bus, before heading for Somerset MRT.
Had a nice bus ride back, talked with Ode quite a bit. Think i talked too much. Sorry Ode, first time meet me and have to listen to me talk so much. Haha...
Anyway, was late for tuition by 15 minutes, ate for 15 minutes with the family, then taught tuition till 10. Did some physics too. Lesson of the day
POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE DENOTE : DIRECTION
Fun day. Met two "new" ppl. Juliana and Odelia. Apparently Jayne Tong, u know Odelia too. Singapore is a small placeLabels: Atria, Audrey, Borders, edc, FX, Heeren, Juliana, Kinokuniya, MNG, Odelia, Orchard, Taka, Topshop, Zhi Rui
the story ends like this;
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