Friday, November 07, 2003
indian timesÂ
meg is really running out of cds. just for the sake of having interesting background music, i have resorted to listening to her "modern rock 2" cd. modern, alright. oasis is weird.
anyway my eyes are all squinty, and i realized that i haven't been posting much. sorry sorry! well, not like that there's anyone to apologize to, but all the same... anwyay anyway anyway, let's start from wednesday!
my mom's birthday - i ended the crappy camp at 4:30, stood at the bus stop getting completely drenched (felt like a drowning rat that very moment) until 77 came 20 minutes later and everyone stared at me and i stared back. what, never seen a sopping kid before? anyway, i got home (walked so fast that my legs were numb when i finally climbed the painful steps up home) and got shooed into the shower with constant (with 30 second intervals) reminders to hurry up. my dad was "surprising" my mom, see, so we ordered a cab (hey, doesn't that sound weird? let's go to starbucks and order a cup of cab!) and my dad, my sneaky sneaky dad, discreetly told the cabbie to turn here and there and somehow we landed up at this condominium Villa Martia - what a stupid name but it was reallyreallyreally nice inside! anyway my dad went up to this old and fat security guard and asked him where "alvin's place is". but was. so the guard just stared at him and my dad went to the porch to make A Phonecall, while my mom was giving him the weirdest looks ever. so we walked behind the lifts and into this weird house and this weird guy peeked his head out and yelled "Welcome!". so my mom was looking more freaked out by the second, and my dad was looking very smug. interesting. so we walked in... and saw the mckellars, this weird-looking man and his mom. his house was completely decked out in all these peranakan things, which were actually really cool, and i know that sounds so weird coming from me, but really it was so so so so cool and so he took us on a "tour" (what a horrible cheesy word) around the apartment and my mom's face was in a constant pleasant state of shock and blah blah blah so we sat down and had dinner. i know i'm typing so much so i'll just cut my mom's birthday short and say that the food was Extremely Good! i went home with a tummy ache, though.
thursday (yesterday) - ah, yesterday was good too! i rushed home after school (at least we were let off at 12 pm) and was once again shooed into the shower and blah blah blah hurry up ruth blah blah blah ok i'll just cut the details: we went to parkway for a tiny lunch, where i finally got my unionbay pants altered! (yay, no more not-being-able-to-see-my-feetness!) and also i got my shoes fixed, and i got to go grocery shopping with my mom after so long! and i got yogurt and these japanese cracker things and chocolate. so we headed home and i went online but was too lazy to make any post of any sort and so after a while we went out again but this time to great world city where we watched Intolerable Cruelty and then had the absolute yummiest dinner at crystal jade and then we went home.
today (uh... friday, but i'm pretty sure all of you know that) - stupid mr michael whatever and his awful laugh ("hyuk! hyuk!") and his nasal whiney voice... i think i'll lay off any desire to study psychology next time if that's what will happen to me. (this is a warning to you all!) (ok, i'm kidding) (i don't even want to do that anyway) and lakh! that lady, she is good and all, but she:
1. talks too much
2. fiddles with her hair too much
3. goes all new-agey way too much
i guess number 3 was the worst of the lot. anyway her lesson was the last one, and she was supposed to end at 4:30, but no-o-o-o, she just had to drag on till it was 4:40, and then this other teacher came in and took ages to explain to us why she was giving us a chocolate bar each. blah blah blah, we were finally let off, and i walked super duper fast to the bus stop just so i wouldn't be late or whatever for meg's "exciting" carnival that turned out completely crappy. i'm so alliteraryish today. must be the AMOUNT OF CHOCOLATE CAKE AND BROWNIES I HAD TODAY. well, that's the only valid excuse i can think of. anyway, i got there, and stood there with all these people buzzing around, while waiting very patiently for meg and sarah to appear. then she came and i changed out of our uniform (me) and she into her yukata-thing (while complaining of an impending wedgie the whole time). so we hung around and walked around and around and around.. and uh... what else happened? oh yes! the FOOD. oh, the food! was! So Good!!! yah, pity i didn't have the capacity (look, another c word!) to take everything that was on the table... but i did have space for chocolate cake and a brownie... hahahaha ok then the programme thing started and the kindergarteners started off with singing and they were so cute! then other people came on (goodness i can't even remember right now) and there was a square dance to virginia reel and a chinese song by the tenth graders (pffft, couldn't hear them!) and this dramatic taekwondo thing and OHHH that was very historical, seeing Ed, of all people, sway to a kid's song on stage. impressive. i think, by far, this is the longest post i've ever made.
shock!
horror!
the utter surprise!
i'm sleepy and it's 7.5 days to my birthday! boogie baby! (another alliterawhatever thing from me, random ruth. oh, look!)
written by Ruth Leanne the Great at 11/07/2003 10:53:00 PM
anyway my eyes are all squinty, and i realized that i haven't been posting much. sorry sorry! well, not like that there's anyone to apologize to, but all the same... anwyay anyway anyway, let's start from wednesday!
my mom's birthday - i ended the crappy camp at 4:30, stood at the bus stop getting completely drenched (felt like a drowning rat that very moment) until 77 came 20 minutes later and everyone stared at me and i stared back. what, never seen a sopping kid before? anyway, i got home (walked so fast that my legs were numb when i finally climbed the painful steps up home) and got shooed into the shower with constant (with 30 second intervals) reminders to hurry up. my dad was "surprising" my mom, see, so we ordered a cab (hey, doesn't that sound weird? let's go to starbucks and order a cup of cab!) and my dad, my sneaky sneaky dad, discreetly told the cabbie to turn here and there and somehow we landed up at this condominium Villa Martia - what a stupid name but it was reallyreallyreally nice inside! anyway my dad went up to this old and fat security guard and asked him where "alvin's place is". but was. so the guard just stared at him and my dad went to the porch to make A Phonecall, while my mom was giving him the weirdest looks ever. so we walked behind the lifts and into this weird house and this weird guy peeked his head out and yelled "Welcome!". so my mom was looking more freaked out by the second, and my dad was looking very smug. interesting. so we walked in... and saw the mckellars, this weird-looking man and his mom. his house was completely decked out in all these peranakan things, which were actually really cool, and i know that sounds so weird coming from me, but really it was so so so so cool and so he took us on a "tour" (what a horrible cheesy word) around the apartment and my mom's face was in a constant pleasant state of shock and blah blah blah so we sat down and had dinner. i know i'm typing so much so i'll just cut my mom's birthday short and say that the food was Extremely Good! i went home with a tummy ache, though.
thursday (yesterday) - ah, yesterday was good too! i rushed home after school (at least we were let off at 12 pm) and was once again shooed into the shower and blah blah blah hurry up ruth blah blah blah ok i'll just cut the details: we went to parkway for a tiny lunch, where i finally got my unionbay pants altered! (yay, no more not-being-able-to-see-my-feetness!) and also i got my shoes fixed, and i got to go grocery shopping with my mom after so long! and i got yogurt and these japanese cracker things and chocolate. so we headed home and i went online but was too lazy to make any post of any sort and so after a while we went out again but this time to great world city where we watched Intolerable Cruelty and then had the absolute yummiest dinner at crystal jade and then we went home.
today (uh... friday, but i'm pretty sure all of you know that) - stupid mr michael whatever and his awful laugh ("hyuk! hyuk!") and his nasal whiney voice... i think i'll lay off any desire to study psychology next time if that's what will happen to me. (this is a warning to you all!) (ok, i'm kidding) (i don't even want to do that anyway) and lakh! that lady, she is good and all, but she:
1. talks too much
2. fiddles with her hair too much
3. goes all new-agey way too much
i guess number 3 was the worst of the lot. anyway her lesson was the last one, and she was supposed to end at 4:30, but no-o-o-o, she just had to drag on till it was 4:40, and then this other teacher came in and took ages to explain to us why she was giving us a chocolate bar each. blah blah blah, we were finally let off, and i walked super duper fast to the bus stop just so i wouldn't be late or whatever for meg's "exciting" carnival that turned out completely crappy. i'm so alliteraryish today. must be the AMOUNT OF CHOCOLATE CAKE AND BROWNIES I HAD TODAY. well, that's the only valid excuse i can think of. anyway, i got there, and stood there with all these people buzzing around, while waiting very patiently for meg and sarah to appear. then she came and i changed out of our uniform (me) and she into her yukata-thing (while complaining of an impending wedgie the whole time). so we hung around and walked around and around and around.. and uh... what else happened? oh yes! the FOOD. oh, the food! was! So Good!!! yah, pity i didn't have the capacity (look, another c word!) to take everything that was on the table... but i did have space for chocolate cake and a brownie... hahahaha ok then the programme thing started and the kindergarteners started off with singing and they were so cute! then other people came on (goodness i can't even remember right now) and there was a square dance to virginia reel and a chinese song by the tenth graders (pffft, couldn't hear them!) and this dramatic taekwondo thing and OHHH that was very historical, seeing Ed, of all people, sway to a kid's song on stage. impressive. i think, by far, this is the longest post i've ever made.
shock!
horror!
the utter surprise!
i'm sleepy and it's 7.5 days to my birthday! boogie baby! (another alliterawhatever thing from me, random ruth. oh, look!)
written by Ruth Leanne the Great at 11/07/2003 10:53:00 PM
