sigh.

feeling kinda depressed now because mark just enlisted today. it's like suddenly i don't have someone to laugh with and talk to all the time, and the realisation of this really sucks. especially since it's only been like just over a week after the As and almost everyone is out doing gay coupley stuff. yesterday he was telling me that he felt more "terminal disease" symptoms about going to NS than he did before the start of the As, so we went to j8 and bought like 4 full bags of junk food and just spent the evening eating like pigs and going through all the last-minute stuff he needed to pack for today. and as we were walking to the supermarket he commented that going supermarketing "transcends" couplehood and that shopping for clothes and stuff in orchard is for noobs. i'll miss all his stupid comments. and i canNOT imagine him without hair or doing his own laundry or WEARING BOOTS AND CARRYING A RIFLE. omg. i just hope he'll be safe and come back quickly from this shitty NS thing!

my dad was trying to cheer me up just now and started telling me all these retarded stories about his BMT days like how his sergeant made him clean the toilet with his toothbrush and how he caught a small black snake and kept it as his pet in a matchbox. and i should be glad that it's not so bad these days because at least they're allowed handphones and everything is less strict so i've nothing to worry about. but then again they can't charge their phones so he has to like ration his phone use so that it can last till christmas. that seems like SUCH A LONG WAY :( and now i seem like such a whiny irritating girl but i can't help it cos i miss him i really do!

anyway. in happier news-

prom was on tuesday and i'm sorta glad that it's over because it means an end to last minute prom stuff like getting shoes and altering dresses. it's like i never knew trying to look good took so much work! i guess shopping for stuff is fun when you're just casually browsing through stuff, but when you know you HAVE to get certain things and you're working with a deadline, it sorta gets less fun after a while. doing hair was cool though! i went to the salon with aud in the afternoon and asked the stylist to give me a curly bun, and felt like i was getting royal treatment when she was washing my hair and then wrapping it around the curling iron and painstakingly pinning it up with lots of gel. although, having the pins stuck into my scalp and washing the gel out at 4 am in the morning was NOT cool. but i was happy with the way it turned out because i thought it looked quite princessy and chic! it reminded me a bit of the way i'd have to sit down and have my ballet teacher smother my head with gel while bunning my hair up before ballet exams. except that there was no stupid netting involved and i didn't come out looking like i had a burnt hamjingpeng surgically attached to the back of my head. HAHA. maybe one day i'll try to do the curly bun thing myself and perhaps it might even turn out less shitty than all previous attempts to self style with the curling iron have been :p

oh and because we booked early we somehow were upgraded to a deluxe suite at the ritz for the same price as a standard room! and it was HUGE with like a separate living area and king sized bed and a GIGANTIC toilet. there were 2 sinks and a tub and a shower and a cubicle for the toilet bowl and a closet with a safe! and darryl happily announced that he had a bubble bath in the tub at 4 in the morning without drawing the blinds on the huge window that was right next to the tub. i shudder to imagine what view anyone looking into the room then must have got! oh and the pillows were like super comfy and there were TWO tv sets and a fax machine!! damn fucking cool!

and just now a few of us had dinner at fish & co for walker's farewell cos she's leaving for UK on monday. i had the seafood platter with erica and the squid is DAMN good!! it's like a bit burnt and sambal-ish with a bit but not too much cream. and the prawns were huge and tasted excellent too! i think it might actually be as worthwhile as the swordfish collar which is really HUGE, especially when they give you mutant swordfishes like the ones hongyi got last week. it was so much that he actually couldn't finish it, imagine that! anyway after dinner we walked around orchard and nic did stupid stuff like wear a santa hat and dance at random intervals and the rest of us tried to walk away and pretend we didn't know her. then we took neoprints at heeren where we totally bullied colin cos he was the only guy and went mad drawing in unibrows and face warts on people at the editing booth. i'll miss walker because she's always been my aunt agony and someone i'd complain to and get advice for guy problems.

sigh it seems like there are just too many people to miss :( maybe it's time to start on that 3rd box of chocolate...