have been kinda busy this past week, so here's just an update on my life-

1. shoe shopping- eventually i did go back to metro on saturday with the purpose of buying my pretty pink shoes, but alas, this was not to be! even though they had my size and it was a perfect fit, there was only one pair left and there was this big blue stain on the heel. i begged the salesgirl to try to remove the stain but there was just no way of getting the stubburn thing out :( :( and so when i consulted my dad he said it was 'unwise' to pay big bucks for a defective product and that's how nirvana slipped through my fingers. :(

2. CNY- visiting this year was the same as all previous years. basically me and my sis just have to dress up early in the morning and then spend the rest of the day sitting around bowls of CNY goodies and answering questions about how old we are and where we're studying etc etc. i guess it's the one time of the year where everyone has to do the concerned auntie/uncle thing. and for some reason everybody thinks that my sis is older than me, which is insulting to say the least. especially since she has the mental maturity of an infant. it's not my fault i was born short! the only good thing is that we get to sample all the CNY goodies and take angpaos. ok so that's TWO good things. this year my favourite CNY goodie is a toss up between peanut cake and the curry puff shaped thing filled with peanuts and sugar. somehow i just love the way peanuts squirm into my molars and dig little cavities while i'm sleeping. and as for the angpaos, i haven't been allowed to open the up and do the math, but i have a sneaking feeling that this year's profit might be less that last year's :(

3. reunion dinner- as usual, the cousins ended up with the dysfunctional steamboat set, so we spent half of dinner waiting for the soup to boil. which only meant that we were forced to eat the cooked food and abalone in the meanwhile, but you know it's ABALONE so obviously this wasn't a huge lost. and after that my mom allowed my dad and sis to brainwash her into wanting to go to CHINATOWN to buy potted plants at midnight. so we picked up mark along the way and headed down, and all the while i was telling them that it'd be super crowded and congested and we wouldn't even be able to get out of the car. but does anybody ever listen to me? no. which was how we drove right through chinatown without stopping because my mom and dad were feebly conceding that there was no way they'd go shopping in that kind of crowd. so we ended up going for dessert at fullerton hotel instead which was definitely much more pleasant than chinatown would ever have been. especially the dessert platter which came with excellent strawberry cheesecake and sorbet and mudpie! :) :) :)

4. cafe iguana- had a mini class gathering on the 2nd day of CNY with darryl and paulee and tung at clarke quay and it was great to see everyone again. tung is unrecognisable now that she's joined the army. i still don't understand why anyone would do that, but i guess that's just the opinion of an unatheletic, lazy bum. throughout dinner me and iris were practicing our 'interested faces' as we were reminded that all the guys ever talk about these days is NS stories. i think we almost know enough about field camp rations and route marching and firing an M16 to enlist ourselves =p lucky the food was not bad- i had the shredded beef taco and mark had the steak and it was all good- and the everyone was margarita happy so we were saved by good company and good atmosphere. clarke quay by night is a really nice place :)

5. today- i have ZERO voice. at most i can make out a little half-hearted squawk and whisper some stuff, but otherwise, this time i have done it good and proper. mark just told me that peanut cookies are potentially lethal for sore throats, so i decided to not tell him that i'm also currently kinda into the 3kg box of bak kwa that my grandmother just brought over. =p how i'm going to coach debate later is a mystery, especially since their competition is tomorrow and i need to rewrite speeches, pronto. ugh :(