today has got to be the best valentine's day so far. not that i had a hot date or anything. anyway, the day started out normal. went for tutorials, screwed up the EN presentation, forgot to bring my EL tutorial and had to rush out something in 10mins. stoned for 2hrs outside LT12. went to sign up for RP. (stupid thing) EN lecture. no screening cos the topic was advertising. did you know that in 1 day, a child is exposed to an average of 3000 ads? by the time you're an adult, you've been exposed to at least 10,000,000 ads. haha! could say i spent time with a guy. lect and choir mate joseph. ;Danyway, later comes the fun part. met duan hui at the forum at 4. hung around, half chit chatted and half studied. saw a HUGE bunch of muslim guys praying on the 2nd floor. very interesting. first time i saw such a sight. left nus at 5 something to go to poh lin's hostel for steamboat! yay! first time going into the ntu hostel room.
squeezed into the train at clementi. the crowd was just crazy. and they refused to move in. anyway, the crowd ALL cleared by the time it reached jurong east. lucky we decided to move forward the meeting time to 6 instead of 6.30. there was just not enough time. met poh lin and sumi at boon lay and went to ntu.
saw city harvest church along the way. well, the place looked a whole lot smaller than i expected. i think i expected it to look something like st mary of the angels. but it looks like a squashed version of marine parade library. loved the way they did the cross tho. bit weird. they had this gallows-like structure but instead of a hanged man, it was a cross hanging there. interesting.
anyway, moving on. poh lin's hostel is nice. it's so cosy and homey. so different from the nus hostels. so much better than the nus hostels. gave me a bit of deja vu but... the hall was a elliptical building built around a courtyard. 4 stories high. but what i like is the space. it's so spacious there. especially at the corridors. they actually have their own built in shoe rack and personal space to dry their laundry. beautiful. and it's so peaceful and quiet.
anyway, about the steamboat. when we arrived at her hostel, we went to prepare the food in the toilet, cos the pantry was too far away and we were all too lazy to walk. then, me and duan hui went back to poh lin's room to prepare the soup for the steamboat. anyway, we were struggling to figure out how to plug in the steamboat cos the plug didn't seem to fit. poh lin's roomie came to give us a hand. and i switched on the switch, and almost got electrocuted. scary sia. there was this flash of white light that came out of the switch. haha! could have DIED.
well, poh lin came back and was her usual self about how sua-ku we are about the thing. and got it started without anyone dying. piled in the fishballs, crab sticks, cabbage, sausage, egg, etc etc. so full now. the 4 of us were squished in a corner of the room while watching "confessions of a teenage drama queen" on poh lin's very beautiful acer lappie. wish someone could have taken a picture. we were sitting on the floor so every now and then, when we want more food, we'd all be kneeling to the steamboat. like praying to it or something.
sumi had to leave early cos of her class tmr. me and duan hui helped clear up the stuff. actually, that just consisted of grabbing everything in sight and throwing it away. yup. picture of the leftover food after we were done with dinner. and took photos together. (with tigger)
bit blurry pics. i think my hand shook. used my phone camera. poh lin took me on a 'tour' of her hall. very nice. very very cosy. if nus halls were like this, i'd stay. kept wondering why didn't i choose ntu when i had the chance. anyway, ya, sat in the tv room and watched chinese drama for a while. then had to leave by 10 so that we can catch the train back home. kinda fun time.
other stuff. all this happened through friendster. a friend wrote to the guy about me. and he wrote back to me. now, while i'm happy about it, i kinda feel that he only wrote to me because he felt like he had to, cos of what my friend wrote to him. ya anyway, no matter what his intentions were, it was a nice v day surprise. we were speculating on whether or not he would even respond. looks like he proved me wrong for once. ya. that's that for now. just friends.
rumour has it. clay's new cd will be released on *drumroll*
may 9!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! oh the anticipation. heehee.
yup. anyway, it was a good v day cos i didn't spend it pathetically at home with will shakespheare for company like i did the previous years. :D
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