Sunday, September 19, 2004
I hate ezlink cards. Yesterday morning marked my long-overdue attempt to replace my missing ezlink card at pasir ris.
Speaking of which, my family members and I have theory regarding the new office at pasir ris.
(why pasir ris of all places?) Obviously, they
had to do it to cater for the convenience of their best-paying customer, ie,
me. I think they predicted a lot more business coming from this direction. And yes, they were tight.
Anyway, irritatingly, after making a long and ardous journey by bus to the station, what do they tell me but “oh, sorry the picture must be in uniform”. like,
since when??. Previous attempts (of which there were many) were not so. Aside from the fact that 1) school uniform pictures are the ultimate in fugly, and 2) i didn’t have a singe shot at home, it struck me as ultimately stupid to have to waste a zillion bucks taking the picture and making the card when i have like, at most 3 months left to use it. ARRRGHHHH.
And so my mother intones,
its no one fault but my own…
On a more cheerful note, had a fairly interesting day studying at the airport, delifrance in the morning, and then staff canteen. The staff canteen is scary. It was so full of students thoroughly engaged in studying/ furious scribbling/ some combination of both that we all felt we might have just as well gone to a
library . Irony : Huge blue signs placed conspicuously on the walls proclaiming
NO STUDYING IN THE STAFF CANTEEN . Who says Singaporeans are sticklers for rules?
Sometime during the course of studying the topic of belly buttons came up. Basically, we were trying to decide what one does to the umbilical cord after the birth of a baby and how that affects what a belly button looks like. So there we were, sitting around comparing innies and outies in the middle of the staff canteen. The following was a particularly interesting bit of the conversation:
D: What knot? I don’t remember what my belly button looks like
L: Yah, there’s a knot. And there’s a button looking thing next to it
D: Really?? *checks under shirt discetely Oh yah! There’s a button You’re right! How you know?
L: I saw it when we were changing in primary school
Everyone: And you actually remember??!!
It’s somehow extremely funny listening to someone describe a belly button (of all body parts) to the owner of that belly button in question.
You know all those cutesy little friendship quotes that circulate on the end bits of forwarded emails? I can think of a few.
Like: A real friend sees and remembers what your belly button looks like, and reminds you when you don’t remember.
isn’t this familiar?
Fish and Co for dinner, courtesy of mother anxious that i
not be anxius about the prelims. I’m not anxious. I’m resigned. We figured out where they got their name from. Fish and
Company = Fish and all their fellow edible
companions from the sea.
So much for Saturday. Today is Sunday and its been uneventful and pretty much unproductive. Slept an awful lot. Also, I’ve been having strange dreams…like, in episodes. First episode was about me marrying a house gnome (like, a house elf? But a gnome). That was saturday night. Sunday afternoon was episode 2, and it had me, my gnome, and a bunch of other people going on a round the world cruise. Woohoo. Can’t wait for episode 3, tonight?
stay tuned to Gnome Gnews
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