blogging again...

haiz. i'm incorrigible. anyway, today was quite a good day. had a very nice dream last night that i'm not going to talk about here. haha! but i was awoken from it by wan yun msging me about the project at 7.30am. and since i couldn't get back to sleep, i decided to wake up and start the day. look through the project, maybe do some work before going out. so i did. and listened to half of dr VT's lecture. gosh! now i know how little mr toh has been telling us. sigh. i should have been going for VT's lectures instead. no wonder that tang yang can claim that she only needs to pay attention in lecture to do her tutorials. i was wondering, i pay attention also what, so why she can do and i cannot. now i know. too late. sigh. anyway, while listenin to the lecture, i was also downloading the rest of the JNT. haha! now i can burn it into a cd and have my own joyful noise dvd. (when i buy the blank dvd anyway) meanwhile, i can enjoy and know what the rest of the board is talking about.

anyway, was doing my work till round 10.30. then i left to meet the rest of them at city hall. by the rest of them i mean duan hui, sumi, jas, su hui, wen hui. went there, reached 5 minutes before 11. only su hui was there. she told me that she had been there since 10.30. omg! so early! cos she approxed the time wrong. so she had been walking around and window shopping for the past half hour. not that there was much to see. wen hui was the next to turn up. and then we waited. and waited. and waited. we reasoned that only jasmine has the right to be late since she's the birthday girl. we waited till 11.30. and i was saying, hope this next train contains at least one of them. and guess what? all three of them were in the same train. haha!

ok, collected everyone, so went to suntec. supposed to watch "just like heaven" 1pm. but it was very rush. so decided to go to the 3pm one instead. so meantime, went to the arcade where we watched su hui playing the drum machine. was taking photos until i made the mistake of using flash. the attendant came over and asked me to stop. darn. anyway, i can never understand why people like arcade so much. i literally felt light-headed after being there. the music is so darn loud. anyway, me and duan hui were very attracted to this machine that offered prizes of electronic gadgets. all you needed to do was to collect 5 points and more to win. and there were photos of alleged winners pasted over the machines. and all this for just $1. the both of us are wanting to get new handphones. (btw, sumi got a new one, similar to the one i'm saving to get) anyway, we tried out the machine later but didn't win anything. i tell you, this type of machine is fixed. you can't win unless you put in like a billion tries.

went to kfc for lunch. i didn't want the cheese fries so i asked to change to mashed potatos instead. and the guy at the counter (i only noticed this later on) gave me medium potatos instead of the usual regular size. haha! the guy must like me. and i ate su hui's coleslaw too since she doesn't like it. and the six of us sat there for so long (i wouldn't be surprised if it was an hour) and gossiped and chitchatted until the kfc from crowded became totally empty. :D
then went up to mini toons and spent another damn long time there. at first it was ok but i was feeling kinda awkward wandering around the shop without buying anything, the sales assistants were all looking at us. so i went outside and played with that egg machine. the "nightmare before christmas one". for $2 i got this mini keychain of vampire teddy. and the metallic casing it came it. very cute. actually i was hoping for the skeleton man one. but never mind. i will learn to love my vampire teddy. jasmine came out and tried it too. and she got the vampire teddy also. haha! maybe the entire machine's filled with vampire teddy.

anyway, finally made our way up to the cinema where we spent another long time looking at trailers while waiting for jasmine to contact michelle who was supposed to meet us. looking at trailers and talking about the background info of the movies. like the "exorcism of emily rose" and the "pride and prejudice" and kiera knightley. we stood there so long, the number of trailers we watched was almost a mini movie already. and when we finally managed to contact michelle and confirm that she wanted to watch "just like heaven" with us, and we went to buy the tickets. $8 for a ticket seemed kinda ex. but what to do? so just pay up. then went to the snack bar and sat down some more to wait for michelle. taking photo of chicken little and discussing king kong. it was already 3 when michelle finally arrived. we missed all the trailers before the movie. the 7 of us got the entire row to ourselves. haha! cool!

"just like heaven" is so sweet. i highly recommend it. quite worth my $8. *spoilers ahead* stop here and skip to the next para if you're planning to watch "just like heaven" and don't want to know what it's about. (sorry it's so long. i really really enjoyed it)
there's this girl elisabeth. she's a doctor and she works like there's no tomorrow. one day, after working a 26 hour shift at the hospital, she's on her way to her sister's house and a blind date when she's involved in a traffic accident. her car and a truck. jump to another scene. david is making hell for his estate agent cos he keeps rejecting the apartments she's showing him. something about the couch being not good enough for him. seriously, the first thing he looks for in the apartments is the couch. anyway, some stock situation,the flier advertising elisabeth's apartment comes loose and flies to him. and he sees it and he visits the apartment and immediately rents it. and he's a slob and a couch potato btw. then one night, elisabeth shows up in the apartment thinking that he's a homeless vagrant and tries to throw him out of the apartment. what an attitude that gal has. anyway, later on, he realises that she's not quite real. cos she suddenly appears and suddenly vanishes. and she can't make contact with solid/real world stuff. so david goes to an occult bookstore where he buys all the books about spirits and connecting with the spiritual world. and he tries to talk to elisabeth and convince her that she's dead. wants her to walk towards the light but she keeps insisting that she can't see a light anywhere. anyway, then he gets a priest to come in (he was throwing holy water around and david was going "a little bit more to the left" cos the priest was watering the empty air), the ghostbusters (they supposedly caught a 'spirit' inside a pyramid and was going to flush it), and chinese women who wave candles around and set off the fire alarms (according to elisabeth "the entire joy luck club). :D finally, he gets the guy from the bookshop to come. and he's good. he can't see her but he can sense her presence. he was saying, "you've got a really hostile presence here. the hatred is directed at you." something like that. and the amazing thing was that he told david that elisabeth was the least of his worries. his own aura was black. something inside was eating him up, sucking on his life energy. and it was true. later on he confessed to elisabeth that he couldn't get over his late wife. anyway, elisabeth convinces him to try and help her to figure out what's going on. and he does. (this part's interesting but i don't want to narrate the whole thing here. too long.) anyway, later on, elisabeth saves some guy who collapsed in a restaurant through david. and she remembers about her life. they visit the hospital where she worked. and they find out that she's not dead. she's been in a coma for 3 months. but she could feel it when david touched her hand (on her physical body). she tries to get back into her body. this funny cos she tries to 'stick' in her body but can't. anyway, she gets david to leave her there. later on, her sister and kids visit her. and she finds out that the doctors are considering removing her from life support cos according to some thingy she declared when she was erm...alive. anyway, then, elisabeth goes back to david and wants him to try and convince her sister not to sign the documents. when she's there, she realises that her niece can see her too. that was a sweet scene. the kids were having an imaginary tea party and she sat down too. and the girl smiled at her. and then the girl went to the kitchen to get a cookie and put it on elisabeth's plate. *sweet* anyway, david doesn't managed to convince the sister and gets chased out of the house at knife point. this is after finding out that the life support would be removed at noon the next day. anyway, the 2 of them go back to the apartment where elisabeth starts to express regret that she didn't live her life better, to enjoy herself more rather than working her butt off all the time. she was saying that maybe if david really touched her physical body, she could stick in it since she could feel it before. anyway, the next morning, david wakes up and tells her that he has a plan. they would steal her body and buy her some time. elisabeth figures he's lost his mind. but they do it. david brings his best friend to help. and when his best friend finds out really what they were going to, he recognised elisabeth. she was supposed to be the girl he was hooking david up to. elisabeth recognises the friend as JJ, a guy that french kissed her sister at her wedding. realises that david was supposed to be her blind date on that day. anyway, they try to make off with the body but fail. security catches up with them. david is desperate now and he kisses her physical body cos he thinks she's going to die. but she wakes up! her spirit goes back into her body. but she cannot remember who he is. and he sadly walks away. (woah! very long. summarise the rest) anyway, in the end, he gives her the rooftop garden she always wanted, and when he was returning her the key to the apartment, their hands touch and she remembers everything. hug hug kiss kiss. end of story.

ok, after the movie, after which we're all gushing about how cool the bookshop guy is, with his "righteous." comments and general cool attitude. at least me and duan hui have developed infatuations with that guy. haha! anyway, after the movie, we went walking again at the family link. wen hui and su hui went to buy coloured contact lenses. wen hui got blue (or purple) and su hui got gray, her first set of contacts. while waiting for them to settle the contact lenses, the rest of us went shopping. there was a whole array of those egg machines. saw this girl that seemed to be buying the entire machine. and another guy that was using a torchlight to try and predict what would be inside the egg. gosh. was so tempted to buy the winnie the pooh one but have to resist cos i wanted to save money. walk walk and look around. that store with the egg machines, there was this plastic figurine of a bride and bridesmaid. and we were gushing over how pretty the dress was. really it was. sweet and elegant but still making the point across that she was the bride. oh well, bought parents' wedding anniversary present. one of those solar powered plants that bob up and down. got it in white and green. looks so zen. hope they like it.

yup, so while the rest of them were going to toys r us to relive their childhood, me and duan hui and to rush home. so ends the day. well, not yet. still going to go and watch joyful noise later on. i finally downloaded the entire set. well, almost, i realised that there's one song that spotlightlover didn't upload. well, this is still good. hahA! long enough post already. i'll let you all off for now. bye till next time!