Q

Say i’m a celebrity and people would actually love to know my latest going-ons, no matter how mundane.

1.

i hate paper. i hate paper. i hate paper. this isn’t technically an update, but i just have a compulsion to reiterate how much i hate paper, especially loose paper. i can’t sleep if there’s a loose sheet of paper somewhere in the room, i can’t. i hate the feel, the sound, the sight of loose paper. strangely i have an almost obsessive love for paper bags. i hate plastic bags. almost as much as i hate paper. almost. yes as you can tell i have an abnormally high level of feeling towards inanimate objects. you should see me with rulers.

2.

AFTER THE MATH PAPER. A16 girls went to town, where we were let loose into H&M. Debbie and I went slightly crazy with pent up prelims angst, which we channelled very effectively into shopping. the harvest was great, if not slightly guilt-inducing. somewhere in my subconscious i know sooner or later everyone in Singapore will look H&M spawned clones, but rn: i haz new top new shorts new dress new bag – and i know i know i’m starting to sound like a blogshop lian (a term i am now much familiar with because beni and xin constantly accuse me of looking like one). so i shall stop.

3.

after which, CRAZY STUPID LOVE which has Emma Stone – that’s really reason enough to love the movie, because EVERYTHING with Emma Stone is bound to be good if not awesome. C’mon I mean, Superbad, House Bunny, Zombieland, Easy A? That’s almost too many movies to be in that’s awesome.  anyway, RYAN GOSLING. who is attractive to me not (only) because of hot bod, but also because he has the cutest way of speaking.. slightly like a retarded confused child, but a sexy sexy child. i don’t know.

Steve Carrell was surprisingly good in this. I couldn’t understand why he’s a comedian in most of his previous films. He’s more like a blank slate upon which funny things happen, which is then funny. In Crazy Stupid Love he’s funny in the most natural way possible, and he was really ~intense and charming after his transformation. I like that.

4.

the next day town with Shereen~~~ we wandered around like the strange confused children we are, basically. later with Beni, Cel and Daphne, we wandered around some more like strange confused people and then had an outdoor picnic with texas chicken.

also, we successfully embarrassed ourselves sans Daphne who just looked at us condescendingly and occasionally chucked bits of chicken at us in disgust. Shereen did a demonstration of a dance in public, inciting an indian boy to yell ‘DUMB’ at her. Celine basically flashed her knickers at the world. Benita yelled ‘GONORRHOEA’ into the phone when we were trial testing whether Voice Control recognized that as Gloria. I saw the scariest shit-rat running across the fountain ledge and jumped up shrieking. by the end of the dinner I was pretty sure there was a crowd gathered at the upper level watching us in amusement/condescension.

went to the Icing Room and spent ages mucking around with icing getting Mandee’s cake done. by the way our cake was seriously the best out of everyone’s around. without prejudice it was truly a spectacular cake.

5.

MORNING~ Cleo, Shereen and I went to Manda’s to ~surprise her. so we hung around the poolside with Mandee and her nicenice AC pals where we struggled to see who could embarrass the other more. In the end we didn’t have to try. Just by being Amanda, she was the living embodiment of hilarious. In the most endearing way possible of course, Amanda!

then we went off in our jolly way to V’S SURPRISE with Nat, Dionne and Geeloria joining us!

6.

VANESSA’S 18TH~ at Cineleisure kbox which was just ~WOAH with the scrapbooks and buffet and pool and karaoke. being the strange children we are, however, the greatest part of the day was probably singing YMCA very enthusiastically – actions and all – with Vanessa’s adorable folks. It’s between that and our very excited rapping of Low.

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Dionne, Nat, Shreen and I joined the queue for H&M, went in, and stood at a corner being a general obstruction just chillin’~. Hell yeah we are 2cool4school we enter random boutiques to chat. ‘hey let’s go to the lingerie section’ ‘yeah because there are less people there we can talk in peace.’ truly we are strange children.

8.

currently reading:

elephant vanishes by murakami
hygiene and the assassin by amelie nothomb
identity by kundera
skippy dies by paul murray

i tried this thing where i read books simultaneously, but it doesn’t work very well. i can’t quite grasp each book while alternating. so i dropped identity and skippy for later. finished elephant vanishes, is typical murakami. i don’t know why i read him because i want conclusive endings which he doesn’t give. i’m a very traditional, conservative, and virginal asian girl you see. but this one is a collection of short stories which is very tolerable. concise, lasting. especially ‘sleep’ and ‘a family affar’.

hygiene i’m starting to get into it, but i have a feeling i love it already. check out these lines:

‘They went on to support their thesis by citing authors with esoteric names, whose works they themselves had not read, a fact which enabled them to speak about them penetratingly.’

‘I left one novel unfinished. That’s fine: in a successful career, you must always have one unfinished novel if you are to be taken seriously. Otherwise, they think you’re a third rate writer.’

‘I told you, I became a gourmet.’ ‘Full time?’ ‘Let’s say, rather, full capacity.’

can i just say, i would totally believe you if you told me these were taken from Importance. These epigrams are ridiculously reminiscent of Wilde’s innit? The writer’s secretary’s named Ernest. I’m almost positively this text is influenced somehow by Importance, and when i’m done i’ll let y’all know again.

9.

new green tea shampoo. this MAY sound vapid, but you have no idea how profoundly concerned i am about shampoo and green tea. i think about shampoo quite a lot, i mean probably more than the recommended average. it occupies maybe 3% of my daily thoughts. green tea, on the other hand, takes up about 7% i would think. together they take up 1/10th of my everyday life, and thus qualify as a whole point of update. yes. that. new green tea shampoo. which as a kid i’ve tried to extract the scent essence from when i was still young, confused, geeky and have just discovered search engines.

now i’m just confused.

10.

goodnight!