A Day Full of Surprises!

Surprise #1

Slept in late (no surprise.. hee.. :p) All cos of the construction near my house which OT till 1+ AM this morning!! In my haste, i randomly grabbed a haven't-worn-in-a-year pair of sandals and wore it out. i had just walked a few blocks away when i realised that my sandals was getting loose. Horror of horrors, it started falling apart!! OMG!! i'm stuck and can't walk home so i had to call my dad to bring another pair of white shoes down for me. But he got me a super casual pair and i'm too late to go back to change so i just went with that. Anyways, just as well cos i missed the shuttle so i had to walk to the office. Lucky for the flats. :)

Surprise #2

Well, after work, on the spur of the moment, decided to go walk walk and replenish my shoes. hee.. Spent quite some time deciding if i wanna get a second pair at the second shop which was having 50% storewide. Decided not to in the end and was about to make my way down the escalator to go home when i thought i saw someone i know... OMG! it was him!! He saw me too and was also like "is that him/her"?! In that split second, i knew that it was him and my mind just went blank. What conspired after was quite lame. i remembered uttering like, what was he doing there. He said, eating ice cream. Well, obviously cos he just walked out of the ice cream parlor and was holding onto and eating his ice cream. -_-" And i commented i almost couldn't recognise him cos he had changed so much. Yeah, fatter. And that was it.

It has been almost 8 years since we parted and i last saw him. i had always wondered what would it feel like to meet again. Well, now i know the answer.

Surprise #3

So while i was still reeling over the fact that i saw someone whom i've not met in a long time, i walked myself home and opened the letter box. Surprise surprise! There were two mail for me. One from JL in taiwan. i knew she was sending me something and was waiting for it for some time. The other was from KC. i knew that he was going to send me a cny card too. i didn't know that it was being sent from the US!! What a surprise! :)

What a day! i wonder what tomorrow has instore for me. :p

The Tourist

There's too much time after the office event till the art class, so decided to watch a movie instead of idling my time shopping!

The gowns and suits are pretty, Venice is beautiful, Angelina Jolie is ravishing, but the plot, the ending especially is crappy.

Art Class!

Two months after registration, the wait is finally over! Class starts today! The instructor talked quite a bit today. Well, probably cos today's the first lesson. We were told to practise drawing straight lines and circles. It might sound crazy or simple but don't you know that foundamentals are the toughest?! It's so hard to draw a long straight line. Can you draw a perfect circle without use of a protractor? i can't!

Siow Lee-Chin and The Oberlin Orchestra's New Year Concert

Haven't been to an orchestra for ages! And boy was this good! It's such a crowd pleaser. Siow Lee-Chin played in the first half before intermission. Although she played well, i like the second half after the intermission better. For no other reason but cos it was more cheerful. She was too good in her opening piece - The Lark Ascending - it was too sombre and sad for my liking.

Other than the two "encores", my favourite piece was Tritsch-Tratsch Polka, Op. 214 by Johann Strauss.

You bet i'll be going to more orchestra in the New Year! Especially if there's the Keppel discount! :p

Last post of the decade

Would just like to mark the end of 2010 by recording that i met one of my oldest friend/primary school classmate/neighbour twice today!! First was in the morning when i was waiting for my colleague at TBP bus stop for a lift to ECP for the office event. There he was walking towards me with his wife.

Second time was in the evening at my fav place of the moment (i.e. Parco). i was on the way to the toilet and there he was again!! haha. It was really a most pleasant surprise! :) i've not seen my friend for a very long time and yet i bump into him twice today! :p

Did You Hear About the Morgans?

i confess the reason i watched this is cos of Hugh Grant. A slightly below average film with a predictable plot. And i think the supporting cast have more chemistry than the odd combination of Hugh Grant and SJP.

Nodame Cantabile Finale

i still do not understand why there's a need to split the movie into two parts. Anyway, the movies are not as nice as the dorama. But whenever i watch Nodame, i just have an urge to learn the piano! And i do think that Ueno Juri plays her very well! :)

ダーリンは外国人《My Darling is a Foreigner》

The reason i picked this from rental was cos i had the book! And that's perhaps the only watchable reason. A complete waste of time. i rather spend my time looking up my 辞書 haa....

Tron: Legacy

Not exactly my cup of tea. Kind of slow paced for a "high tech" show. The storyline seems impressive for an 80s film but a bit dated in today's context.

Pompeii: Life in a Roman Town 79CE

Last exhibition for the year.

Pompeii, which was buried in a volcanic eruption, was stopped in time and many of the items are very well preserved. It was such a coincidence that keppel nights have a discount code for it this weekend. Yay! And it was a bigger coincidence that I received my nafa student pass just few days before. And students (as long as you produce a valid student pass) goes it free!! Double yay!! And so I didn't need to pay and got half price for YZ (my museum kaki). Money saved but well spent cos we spent almost the whole day at the museum. Well, not including the 2hours lunch. Hehe.

Exhibition runs till 23 Jan. And it's not crowded even on a weekend. But maybe the crowds are doing their Xmas shopping. Hehe. Go for the free 1hr guided tours to familiarize with the exhibits then go a more thorough look on your own after. You can make your own gladiator helmet at the end too! :p