Tuesday, June 08, 2004

this morning, i had shrunk me, the peasant lady and another girl accomplice to 3 inch high height. we shrunk as we jumped off the side of the building, and bounced, unhurt off the now-springy ground. we landed behind some trees and hit the ground running, grabbing on to each other's hands so we wouldn't get lost. the obelisks! the obelisks! we needed to find them!

previously:
i walked around the city. it was night. one building had one stone spire atop it; an obelisk. another building had 3 rotating obelisks on its roof. we were searching and counting.

then i was on a mission. one of us had been kidnapped. i needed to rescue her. she had been captured by the nasty bald samurai. the peasant lady helped me choose paper gloves and a paper kimono while she called out to the captor (she was working undercover) that his food was on its way. i put on the paper gloves. one was very long. the other was very short. i recall having trouble putting them on, hoping they wouldn't tear. my kimono sleeves draped over the gloves nicely. the peasant lady prepared the food. a plastic sandwich on a plastic tray. with a drink and utensils. it looked as appetising as plastic could get.

she bunned my hair clumsily, using a rubber band and some pins, while i held it in place. the samurai couldn't see my hair. if he did, he would recognise me immediately. my hair was its trademark shade of multibrown/blonde streaks. an easily identifiable mark.

i walked as carefully as i could towards him. i could feel the blade the peasant lady stuck in my hair, and the sharpened comb without the teeth resided in my right hand, hopefully hidden by my kimono and the tray. i felt clumsy. my feet, warm in their white socks, shuffled daintily and slowly across the parquet floor towards him.

he regarded me with suspicion.

he saw through me!

i set the tray down with a smile, and almost immediately tried to stab his bald head with my comb. (QB comb -_-) he only looked at me and laughed. a crooked laugh through crooked teeth. he drew his katana and sliced my arm. but not before i grabbed the girl hostage and ran out, also grabbing the peasant lady. we jumped out of the window and i shrunk them so we wouldn't be seen...

i was awakened by the persistant vibration from my handphone, which lay beside my pillow. call from Kingsfield. i sat up in bed and tried to answer as best as i could, hoping i didn't sound funny, deadpan or my crack-voiced from residue sleep.

it was from angela. regarding my claim (for my pay) through email and whether i would be interested working next week. declined because it was at jurong west and that i had a small feeling i would be busy that week.

properly woke up and went outside. mom encouraged me to work, and i guess the only day i was booked was fathers' day. so i called them back but it was engaged. switched on the computer and tried again. got through and got the job. so ok, am going to be occupied whole of next week(days). yeah. will be at jurong west ave 4 if anyone's interested :P i think there's a direct bus to maju camp also, again if anyone's interested. :P hmm West Grove primary school if i'm not wrong. XD

ok, day's events (so far) narrated. now for recap of yesterday's.

yesterday stumbled up around 11.30. went to bathe, etc. left for queensway shopping centre and got there around 3+. haha delay delay. sis bought a pair of shoes. i didn't see any i liked. hmm, there was the diesel one i like, but they only had one pair left. the display pair. pink, size6. bleargh.

sis got a nike at $30 off. not bad. she likes it. lol. the guy said new stock comes in around the 10th and 28th. haha, his name's Lai Hock i think. will go find him come end of this month :x

haha my mom and my sis were complaining why he tell me his name and not them. ehhh. he said it at the counter k. but softly. so i guess you didn't catch it cos you weren't paying attention! :P

oh ya. i wore my sister's tee yesterday. she said it expanded in the wash.. hmm. wah. medium. :o and i actually look good in it. and the material's nice too. wheeee!

after the shoes, we went to anchorpoint for lunch. haha two young boys cooking western in Kenny's (something). they look rather young too. one looks not a day over 20, could even be as young as 17. the other looks not a day over 25. but i think maybe he's the same age or he's 20 only. dunno. i'm bad at discerning age :P

aaanyway.

had pan fried fish with rice and sis had the same thing with spag. mom ate some beef soup thingy. haha she said had a lot of erm. mei jing? dunno what that translates to in english. a lot of artificial stock flavouring? <.< so made her very thirsty.

later chionged to the bus stop to take 123 back to town. erm. missed the first bus. and the bus stop is so far away. i'm lost. wahaha.

anyway reached the bus stop outside orchard plaza around 5.32pm. walked down to the traffic light before istana, 5.35pm. reached entrance of theatre area around 5.43pm. entered theatre around 5.45 (all this according to my trusty adidas watch :D) squeezed past numerous feet in row J with a lot of oofing and owing. sat down just in time to see the last advert finish and the movie start. :P

funny though. they mostly ow-ed for my sis and not for me and mom x)

potter 3 was good. doesn't disappoint. and i like the new director. although it's getting a bit scary o.0 oh, did i mention, we collected our tickets via AXS. haha it prints out a very dumb looking piece of paper that serves as tickets for all 3 of us -_-; i prefer the tickets printed from the cinema :P bleh.

ehhhh speaking of tickets, i wanna go to the Esplanade to see show! ahem. speaking of the Esplanade, reminds me of a fragment of a dream. i was in a classroom or something and someone asked: huh? what Durian? and everyone replied in unison: Esplanade (with the two variations in pronounciation included) lah! hahaha wth..

after potter 3 we walked to cityhall. haha i wanted to and sis also. then mom had to suffer. walk was longer than i remember. maybe because i've never walked there consciously before. hai.

loitered around, looked at clothes, looked at food, walked all the way around the building to see the 24 hour performers. lol. those 4 guys. one of them took out a Magna-Doodle and wrote: "Hi!" then he also wrote something like "So what do you normally do?" and also "The new Singapore ZOO" and gestered at the whole area. haha..

that last line: "The new Singapore ZOO" made me think. there was a mirror in the bathroom area of their display where we could see ourselves looking in if angled correctly. made me think of the concept of "being watched and watching" and i also saw a woman gesturing to him that they were also watching the people watching them. aka us.

so.

who are the people really on display here?

anyway lol, their bathroom stall is seethrough. with a printed leaf on the glass panel to cover vital bits. means you can see everything from the waist up. and everything from their thighs down. doesn't leave much for decency. let's say, if they need to bend down and pick up something. then how? <.<;

ok, fine. it's only dith's mind which wanders to such extremes (extremities :x)

anyway i was thinking. so if they bathe, do they do it in the wee hours of the morning when no one's about or late at night? or in front of a large crowd?

well, music was playing, one of them was sleeping, one was singing (but we couldn't hear any of it) another was preparing a latenight snack.. another was 'talking' to us. and they all shaved their heads for cleanliness. lol. dad said so that we wouldn't be able to recognize them when they came out and grew their hair XD

later went to Henderson for teochew porridge. jes called me. bleh she was at Lucky Plaza playing pool. she sounds.. different. like she's changed. she actually sounded like the day when she was intoxicated and ranting and reeling all over the place...

i dunno.

she's become a clubbing freak. a late-night freak. and suddenly beside her, i'm a good girl. well, if you can call having lost an interest for clubbing and drinking "good". i have good-girl interests now. *HORROR* like shopping, reading, blogging... bleh.

oh, and lunnie's gone to camp now. hmm. nearly every guy i know is more or less a botak NS kia now. oh wells. i forgot to sms him and tell him to take care. =/

anyway i'm working next week. surrounded by primary one kids and a new trainer. wonder who my new trainer will be. wonder if i'm paid for the half hour breaks. wonder how much i'll get when i submit my claim at the end of the month. and can't they be at a school that's near to Toa Payoh? not getting consistently further off? first Redhill, now Jurong West. eek... far far. but luckily this is only from 8am-3pm, and there's a feeder bus outside the school 242 that goes to Boon Lay interchange and from there i can opt to take the mrt (ARGH) or bus 157. (29 stages. also ARGH) which goes to toa payoh interchange. oh wells. there's also 502 that goes to orchard. :P

and sis is going for work experience at spca tomorrow. dad doesn't want her to go. cos she's still coughing and she's slightly asthmatic. and spca has animals. but she's doing admin. but hey, it's only one day, so let her go if not she'll be super disappointed. she's been looking forward to this. at least let her feel independant and grown-up for a day, yeah?

besides there's a straight bus. bus 28. that goes back to toa payoh interchange. so what's the harm done?

anyway yeah. blabbed on too much already. yadda yadda yadda. gotta post in Matters Arcanum and read Legacies by *whoop* F Paul Wilson, and play FFX-2 and hmmmm. LOADS! till later~

...and dith babbled on at the insane hour of 12:53:00 PM