~The Road Less Taken~

Thursday, January 15, 2009

let's see...

in the last 2 days i have done 3 quite amazing things.

1) after a few attempts at doing this thing, but pulling out at the last minute because i was either observant enough or very chicken, i finally did it.

I FINALLY WALKED DOWN AN UP-RIDING ESCALATOR.

(ok the other times i did something similar, it was trying to walk up a down-riding escalator. like the apcg lunch outing to cafe cartel! and on an unrelated note, we also had the immense pleasure of asking for a table for 14.)

this actually shows the power of the subconscious mind, because usually that escalator is a down-riding one, but apparently (as the J8 people always love to do) they changed it.

on another unrelated note, it's quite scary how i actually can remember which escalators in J8 are usually going up and down. it just proves how little excitement there is out of school.

but i'm not complaining. it must be worse for the people who live in bishan.

anyway on to number 2.

2) i fell asleep. at a SHOPPING CENTRE. for 20 minutes. sitting on a bench.

more proof of my belief that among the things ri teaches you, one thing is to fall asleep in the most unimaginable of places.

sleeping on public transport just doesn't quite cut it sometimes. too common an occurence, if you ask me.

and i didn't really do a lot that day. open house. so i was basically milling around, (TRYING TO) talk to people i didn't really know, and all the while showing why exactly, my 2Q people, i am not going to win that bet. at all.

but at least the day was fruitful. got to see all the apcg/ex-classmate people! the day has arrived. now we can see each other on a more regular basis. =)

and more, of course. =)

but yes that's number 2 for you. and for the record, it wasn't J8, because it has a remarkable lack of places to sit down.

gosh i must have looked so terribly unglam.

3) i'm not particularly proud of number 3 (which happened today), but i shall say anyway:

hide and seek at bishan library.

ok this was plenty spastic/immature. but hey it was fun. and like the video mrs lim showed us today said, we should remain a child at heart (something along those lines).

and we weren't even very noisy. although our behaviour, naturally, was highly suspect.

all that because i had absolutely nothing better to do between 10.40 and 2. (eventually it turned out to be 3.30, but i spent the time in between with a sleepyhead, a playful boy and a playful/studious boy who was a slight sleepyhead)

and i thought going back to school was going to be really fun and less boring. (well it certainly beats staying at home, but even walking around the other side of the road and bumping into random teachers and juniors seems to be more productive.)

looks like i'll have to find time to kill in the next 2 weeks' afternoons.

(ZONGYI you want to go or nottttt. cannot all talk and no action.)

and finally, just because i haven't posted a picture for so long...

i shall!

and a poem shall be coming really soon. a rather twisted one heehoo.

but to the pictures.

the irrepressibly, irresistibly handsome ryan tan yi jie at jric! this one with my handphone camera.

another appearance. this time with his much better digital camera. although i was still the one holding the camera. (damn i'm good.)

but just so nobody gets too jealous...

a similarly handsome haozhi. i must apologise for the poor quality though, because i get terribly nervous and all shaky when i meet people who are bigger bossmen than i am.

(and oh, you know, about the egg thing, i realised that the beatles also make the same reference in "i am the walrus" when they sing "I am the eggman, they are the eggmen". =D)

and now, to train your eyes (which hopefully have not been irreversibly damaged from that onslaught) on something else.

note: it IS as bad as you think.

(bengoh you be having pirated copy. this be the real deal man.)

ok then till the next time. (hopefully saturday, because although i don't have any plans yet, i'll come up with one anyway.)

I stopped to rest at 10:13 PM

Two roads diverged,and I-
took the one less taken...