Closing Time

It’s that dreaded time of the year again and it is certainly more dreadful for me this year than the previous one.  I had my GP exam on Monday.  I didn’t feel too good about my essay because I was just not in the mood and I used very limited vocabulary.  The comprehension paper was alright though because I managed to complete my AQ and summary was ok.  I’m so looking forward to the prelims and the A levels…

Yesterday was our dear friend, Konrad’s birthday.  I actually forgot and assumed that it was over and we had already celebrated it.  However, Fadhil asked me on the phone whether I was going to celebrate it.  I asked him when is Kon’s birthday.  Konrad was just beside him so Fad just asked him directly.  Haha.  So we wasted an entire day which could have been personally more beneficial if I had spent it at home studying.  This goes to show what wonderful friends we are.  Fadhil and I wanted to buy him an inflatable chair and make him carry it around on his birthday.  Unfortunately for us and the contrary for him, we could not find the chair Fadhil had seen on sale at Carrefour a while ago.  Thus, we decided to buy him Princess Leia.  It was a tough choice.  We knew that he would rather have Luke Skywalker and I suggested that we buy him both, but Fad rather spend money treating him to lunch than a stupid toy.  Hence, the lucky birthday boy ended up with a lady companion on his birthday.

He was not elated at all to see his birthday present from us.  His grimace tore our fragile hearts into shreds.  How could he not appreciate our well intended birthday gift?  He said he wanted to sell it or give it away though I doubt he will do that.  Haha.  He was lucky we gave him a plastic bag to carry Princess Leia in to save himself the embarrassment of lugging her around exposed to the pubic.  Don’t go thinking we’re that nice yet.  We wrote something on the plastic bag with a big silver marker on both sides.  Kon doesn’t want me to disclose what was written on the bag, so I shall not  We also gave him a little notebook with stickers on it.

We treated him to lunch at Jack’s Place.  We initially planned to go bowling or to play pool after lunch, but there was some disagreement.  Konrad was given the duty to decide and we were forced to watch one of the worst movies that have ever appeared before my eyes, 12 Lotus (by Royston Tan).  Please remind me never to let Kon decide on what movie we should watch on his birthday.  The last time we watched a movie on his birthday also had a disastrous conclusion.  Memories of Sharkboy and Lavagirl are just too painful to recount.  12 Lotus had little artistic value.  It was boring and felt as long as a Bollywood film even though it was only about 2 hours long.  Judging from the number of people in the theatre, I could understand why the cinema had to screen half an hour of advertisements before the show started.  It was agonising to watch a Hokkien musical on the big screen.  Fad wanted to walk out of the theatre and I felt tempted to do so too but I wanted to give it a chance to prove my judgement wrong.  However, it’s ending was as bad as it’s beginning.

After that my eyes had some respite as Kon and I watched Wall-e.  My mum had two free tickets to the show and she couldn’t make it because she had a meeting, so she gave me the tickets.  I slept through the first part because I was exhausted and I had already watched the film online as it came a month late to Singapore.  Nevertheless, I still enjoyed the film.  Disney and Pixar never cease to entertain me.

Today, Chia Hao came over to my house to study.  He was supposed to study with a girl he likes but she asked along a best friend who happens to be fat, so he did not want to study with them.  It was raining really heavily and I had to meet him at Kovan for lunch.  I had to walk through massive puddles of water.  Anyway we had lunch and did some productive studying before he left.  I’m wondering whether I should return to VS and VJ on teacher’s day.  I wonder who’s going back.