Everlong

Saturday. So I had to, like, wake up totally groggy and sick at an unearthly 7am for the movie. What movie? Well, it's The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, and I watched it with my closer classmates, SH, KW, J and HC. The 4some who watched Death Note and crapped with together the other time!

And we came across this ueberly cool shop that sells toyish stuff, and there's a toy where you put it in sunlight and its cute little head bops left and right. It's solar-powered! yay for photovoltaic cells! The teacher I did relief teaching was a couple of years back had a similar ornament on her desk, which was leaves rather than a head, which always mesmerised me totally.

There's one that glows in the dark, and it's sorta stupid because if it's dark, the head won't bop in the first place! Then HC had to spoil it all by saying that it isn't the original one. Bleagh. Didn't buy it.

Yoshinoya's disappointing again. I just can't seem to gety myself to like stringy beef and plain rice...

Went shopping around with KW and he's gonna buy this totally expensive collar tee from Lacoste (reverse Crocodile, as I call it) which is like, something I'd never do! Well, expensive preppy fashion is not my kinda thing. It doesn't look all that eye-catching, and I really can't afford it. But hey, I guess it's to fit in in some more formal social situations.

As for GAP, oh forget it, they're America's Giordano and Bossini sold at designer prices.

Vivocity next to meet a friend! Yay! Oh and playing Phoenix Wright (forcing myself to finish the damned game since I'm almost done with it anyway) along the way. I daresay it's gonna be a forgettable game, apart from the absurdly humorous situations like taking a parrot to the witness stand.



Oh and there's Live Earth on TV (and 89.3FM, TVMobile's audio channel) and that's pretty cool. Literally stayed up the night to watch Keane (blah), Linkin Park (Chester Bennington really messed up his singing, he's off key most of the time), Beastie Boys (they're twice as good as they were when tehy performed in Good Vibratiosn Festival in Singapore) and the Foo Fighters. OMFG Foo Fighters were excellent! I could just watch them again, and again, and again. The semi-acoustic rendition of their classic Everlong was so good, I don't think any of their performances will ever top that.

That was 5am.

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Woke again at 9am to catch the Smashing Pumpkins, but online streaming was down and I have no idea what time Channel 5 gonna show it, oh well, I'll give it a miss.



They got new things on the railroad ties on the MRT system nowadays. Are they like some position sensing thing to aid braking?

Sunday afternoon was spent having fun with Ryan in City Hall area, and Soup Spoon's great stuff. Their clam chowder rocks. Creamy, clammy, chowdery.



There seems not to be any really nice red T-shirts around, I gotta renew my repertoire of red tees. Some are baggy, others worn, one plain ugly. Oh damn. Somehow I have this fetish in red, and anyone who wears red - including me - look twice as they would in any other colour.

Went off to Marina Square, and the damn fever's back with a vengeance.



WZ's birthday party, and all the old secondary school mates are there. They're all doing different things - some on scholarships, others on the Dean's List, but all except me have achieved something they really can be proud of. Oh fuck me. I feel like I've wasted my life or something. Hey no matter what somebody has to fill the last place, no?

But deep deep inside, they're still the same old people we used to have fun with together. Very nice, I like.



Lerk Thai's food was not bad, some hits, some misses, but I personally prefer Thai Express for their in-your-face kinda dishes.







The lemongrass drink is surprisingly palatable, considering how the strong smell of home-grown lemongrass in my balcony often sickens me. It's probably just the sugar/blocked nose/delirium from fever.

A bunch of us planned to drink after that, but it was getting late and logistics weren't on our side. Heck, I was too delirious from feeling feverish to drink anyway.

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Monday. School.

Richie: What happens if you forget to flush in the aeroplane toilet and then you hit turbulence?
Me: The shit hits the fan.

Met with Richie for lunch, then Sim Lim. Richie needs a USB hard disk enclosure for a spare hard disk, and I need a hard disk enclosure and a new hard disk, for all the photos and music and videos.

After loads of walking around looking for the best prices and colours for hard disk enclosures, here it is:



Vantec Nexstar 3 SATA > eSATA + USB