great day.

yesterday was a great day. first day out in ages. so it's gonna be a long post :D firstly, there's a new pope. pope benedict 16. not that it means that much to me though. to me, the pope is just a figure up there in rome. *shrugs*

anyway, went to duan hui's house first. first time been there. her house front door is weird. it's got statues of two chinese lions outside. in all my time of knocking on doors, this is the absolute first time i saw a hdb house with statues of lions on the outside. bit bizarre. but very unique. anyway, the 3 of us were there, chit chatting, hanging out. tried to teach duan hui how to play canon with 2 hands. well, a bit of a success. but she keep refusing to look at the score while playing. so had to tell her the chords everytime they changed. :) it was ok i guess. for someone who can't read music, it was great. cos there was no score for the left hand. me and sumi had to teach her how to play from chords. rather, sumi taught her the chords, i taught them the timing. i knew my church organ training would come in useful someday. looked at her baby photos. couldn't recognise her in some. something interesting i saw on her wall. years ago i gave her a pic of clay aiken that i tore out of lime. she still keeps that pic and she tacked it on the wall. cool! then, we went through all her vcd collection and borrowed some. i borrowed 'spirited away'. but can't watch it cos the tv with the vcd player is spoilt. :P

then, went to sumi's place cos her doggy was alone at home. nino was so excited to see us. me especially. he kept wanting to chew my toes. serious. i must remember to always wear long pants to sumi's place. we had to cook our own lunch. we found oxtail soup from campbells. and macaroni. but duan hui couldn't eat beef so sumi thought, we'd make some rice for her and the grandma. so there we were. 3 mostly clueless people in the kitchen. me was struggling with the stupid can. something about the can opener refused to stay and open the can properly. then, prepared the vegetables. carrots, potato, cabbage. almost cut my finger trying to skin the crazy potato with the knife. (sumi doesn't have a peeler)
then, banged my head on the open cupboard door that i didn't know was open. :p but, still alive. and the food was ok. the fried potato and carrot was mostly burnt. so poor duan hui ended up eating plain rice with scrambled egg. the egg turned out ok but really really oily. sumi put too much oil in it. but, we survived.

then watched 'a few good men'. gosh i love that movie. the trial scenes were especially powerful. the themes of honour and duty were so strong. those 2 guys were willing to go to jail for life than to dishonour themselves. love tom cruise's line "you don't need a badge on your arm to have honour". something like that. these type of powerful law movies just get to me somehow. anyway, that movie was taped long long long ago. i know cos there was the advert for david copperfield's 'portal' during the advertisements. sumi was going like "hey, the guy you like leh!", nudging me. (i used to have a huge crush on david copperfield) haha! looked at sumi's baby photos. those 2 were arguing about who was cuter when they were kids. really. some people never grow up. :D

went home and watched american idol. not bad. 70s dance theme. i notice this season has lots of period themes. noticed also that there were only 2 gals left in the competition. which confirmed my opinion that the guys are the better singers in this season. a guy is going to be the next american idol. antony federov was not bad. i enjoyed his song last night. love his vocals. wish i could sing like that. (haha! not in a billion years) scott sang 'everlasting love', same thing clay did during disco night in his time. comparing the 2, clay's was better. more powerful. scott's a great singer but i think he's better for ballads. i predict that scott's going to be in the bottom 3 again this week. he wasn't doing too well, not just comparing with clay. his voice just wasn't that power lah. anwar sang the same song taufik sang "september". except that taufik was more impressive. those high falsetto parts. taufik sang those cos singapore idol didn't provide them with background vocalists. anwar let the background vocalists sing those high parts. which was a pity cos those were the impressive parts. anyway, had a good laugh last night cos they were showing clips of them trying to dance. everybody was doing the finger thing (saturday night fever thing). that's a classic move. some of them just could not dance. but then, from someone who has 2 left feet, i better shut up. :D