Wild Wednesday

Woke up. Slept. Woke up. Slept. Another day of poor sleep. It's seriously making me cranky and horrible. But if it's any consolation, at least I know the exact reason for my bad mood. Woke up at about 8am and after a while, decided to make a last ditch attempt to get some more sleep. It succeeded, had a pretty good final hour of sleep.

Did I mention? Yesterday, I took a quick listen to The Good The Bad & The Queen's album and nearly wet my pants in excitement at how good it was. Damon Albarn's work of genius. If you like the Gorillaz and you like Blur, what are you waiting for?

Today, I so have to get myself to a CD shop and buy it.

Oh there's this really cool new feature on SBS Transit's website, iris. It allows you to check the next bus arrival time for any SBS bus for any bus stop, which is really sweet. Checked it and oh, only 8 minutes left for the bus to arrive. Dashed out of home with my stuff, and made it to the bus-stop with 2 minutes left.



To my surprise, the bus arrived exactly on time. Sweet!

Blasted some Pokemon on the bus, decided to meet Ryan first since he was out already. Borders, Taka, got some food, then off to scour the shops for The Good The Bad and The Queen.

Gramophone didn't have and did not know of any future stock, so it was a disappointment, considering that Singapore hardly stocks any UK music until WAY after the release date.



But HMV had lotsa stock of that album, so I grabbed it right there and then, together with Gorillaz's Demon Days (led by Damon Albarn too!) which was on special offer. Now The Good The Bad & The Queen holds the spot on my CD rack as the only 2007 title. (I arrange them by release year, then within the same year by alphabet.) To quote Borat: Great success!


(Photo spirited from Ryan's blog)

Raffles City. Supermarket, Ryan got a Diet A&W, while initially I decided against getting anything because there wasn't anything that looked good and happened to be chilled. But then. Took a taste of Ryan's A&W, and strangely it tasted way better than the usual sugared version usually sold. Doesn't have that weird sourish taste to it, and it's thick without leaving that weird feel on your teeth.

Turned back, bought the last remaining can. Heh. I'm no dieter, but well, the idea of sugared drinks and its associated insulin-surge-diabetes-risk-messing-up-the-body thing just doesn't feel right.



Met Ferret, walked around Marina Square looking for Subway because they were giving out free cookies from 4-6pm. Was lost along the way, ended up in a hotel asking for directions, crossing carpark access lanes and etc, until we finally found the place.

The staff there were really friendly and gave us a cookie each! The peanut butter one was especially delicious. Never tried it before so it was a really pleasant surprise. Really funny how the sales person in charge of the cookies made sure to look oblivious to the cookie giveaway until the customer asked for them, then she beamed a smile and happily gave them out!


(Photo spirited from Ferret)

Evil thoughts brewed. What if we went branch to branch queueing up again and again for free cookies? Suntec City. Joined by reinforcements! Crochunter was there! The Suntec people were almost as friendly, and they let us choose our flavours!

Next stop: Raffles City. Now, the staff were busy and a little peeved as they seemed to be running out of cookies so we just sort of meekly took the cookies and scurried off.

Gee, totally full from all the cookies. Next stop: Funan Centre, wondering if there was a Subway there. Turned out not to be one, but we had fun there, looking at all the tech stuff and most of all, Gamescore, a very popular game shop.


(Photo spirited from Ryan's blog)

Elite Beat Agents! And at a nice price too! I simply had to buy it. Ryan wanted to get an Action Replay (cheater!) but they didn't stock it.

Dinner. Sorta stuffed from all that cookies so didn't eat all that much. headed to TCC next (sorta like Coffee Bean which they took over the location from, only better and posher.). Chose the Kenya AA coffee, one of those premium coffee. Drank it black, and no doubt it was good coffee, but it was sorta strong and bitter and every sip was quite a small explosion on the tongue.



Took a slow stroll to Bugis, and recee'd places for future gatherings. All along the way, Ryan and I were doing this little game where we named 2 foods then asked the other person which he prefers. It's super freaky that so much of our tastes are similar - way beyond what can be explained by coincidence. e.g. tomato sauce in preference of chilli sauce, Nyonya rice dumplings as opposed to the usual ones, Honey Stars over Coco Crunch. It's uncanny!

Reached Bugis, then hung around for a while, then had to make our way back. Really sweet (but expensive) day today.



Took out my DS and fired up Elite Beat Agents while leaning next to the door of the train and earphones snugly in ears. Typical curious glances from the passengers nearby. But who cares?



Really fun game, as I've always been a sucker for rhythm games such as Beatmania and Parappa the Rapper and Um Jammer Lammy. Easy mode's quite fun to begin with. Blazed through the levels, as all the songs that I already know the beat to felt really easy. And of course, noticed my embarassing familiarity of the beat to Avril Lavinge's Skater Boi. Yikes.

One thing about this game, It's totally unplayable in noisy situations where you can't hear the song crystal-clear. It really helps to use earphones with this game. Either that, or plug it into a hi-fi like what I did at home and groove to the beat of the kick drum.

Normal mode's significantly harder though, and you can't really complete a song in just 1 try anymore. But that's how such rhythm games should be. Just hard enough such that you master the song before you can pass the stage, but not too tough that you get sick of the song.

Really love this game! More to come when I progress through the game and therefore have more to say. For now, goodnight.