2008-03-31
Call it.
As we all saw coming, today was declared a half-day in school and the multitudes were unleashed at 10am. Deb Theseira and I were supposed to go Ikea after dismissal to look for her organisers and ogle random pieces of interesting furniture, but her class spontaneously decided to go to Settler's Cafe at Holland V first, so I tagged along. So extra =_= Theseira Theseira Theseira, the things I do for your wonderful company... Endured Victor's desperado-ness, Caleb's usual strangeness, chance encounters with Mark and Yinling on the bus there, introductions to Vanessa and Shirley (two of the strangest girls I've ever met, and that is saying something, but I mean it in a good way), and a walk to Buona Vista station after eating breakfast/lunch at Breko's. For some reason, even though it was half-day and I was looking forward to it, I still felt quite lethargic. Jayne and Johanna thought I was crying this morning because apparently my eyes were red and tearing and my voice sounded like I'd been screaming a lot previously, but I was like, "It's called sleep deprivation. You should try it." Hahaha, I really wasn't emo this morning! I think my voice sounds terrible because it's my just-woke-up voice. I say very little if not nothing at all between dragging myself out of bed and going to school, so chances are the first words-of-the-day I utter will be at assembly. It gets better as the day progresses and I get more occasion to yell at people.
So to try and alleviate my lethargy, Theseira and I went to Jurong East to amuse ourselves at the arcade. I forgot to bring a change of clothes so at first they wouldn't allow me in since I was wearing uniform, but joy! June happened to be at JE too and she had a jacket on so I shamelessly borrowed it, zipped it up to cover my blouse, and went back in with Theseira, haha. (Thank you June!!) Watched her play the drum machine thing first, then tried out the taiko drums one and got more hyper by the minute, hahaha. Taiko drums ftw! Super stress-relieving, I think if I continued playing some more, I would've broken the drum skin. Played the a-bsh a-bsh game, don't know what it's called but we just had to whack the buttons a lot, then wrecked the Para Para Machine by playing together in Single-Player mode, hahaha. Theseira took the sensors on the left, I took the sensors on the right, and we n00bed our way through. Surprisingly, we actually cleared most of the stages. DDR was utter disaster though, haha. I haven't had this much fun in an arcade in a long time, and I say it again: TAIKO DRUMS!!! :D Addictive man...
Arcading shortly followed by trip to Bukit Panjang Plaza so Theseira could buy her shirt and look for wrapping paper. She ended up buying two shirts and we had lunch/dinner at Ichiban because there was some $5 meal promotion. Pretty worth it, I was significantly happier after eating the black pepper salmon rice bowl and making exclamations of triumph every time the same series of things passed us by on the conveyor belt, hahaha. I still remember the order! Vaguely! Er, cheesecake, mousse, pickled seaweedy thing, something labelled I'm Raw!, pandan cake, something with shrimp. Yeah, I think that's it. It passed us by loads of times, haha. See, this is what I do for entertainment. Riveting.
I realise I'm too preoccuped with the past sometimes. I miss a lot of things and that makes me have melancholic fits of, er, melancholy. I wish some things just didn't change the way they did, and I can't help thinking what things would be like now if they hadn't. Would I be a happier person? Would the people around me be happier? But if there's one thing I've learnt at church (yes see I PAY ATTENTION, blasphemous child that I am), it's that Whatif-itis isn't going to help in any way, so I should see the wonderful things I have now and be happy about that. Yeah. Idealistic, but the ends justify the means. I have quite a lot of idealistic principles in life but so far, they've worked for me. I am an expedient idealist, haha! Ok, state of mind beginning to deteriorate. Must be taiko drums withdrawal symptoms... I will continue to miss things, I guess, but from here on I resolve not to let them affect me in a negative way. Reminisce, but also remember what I have now. And maybe try to fix the things that need to be fixed now. Yes.
Thank you to everyone who made my day today :)
feimao at 8:46 p.m.