Adding on to the week before - Tues - went to watch Woman in Black ("direct from London"... rright... what irony... that we're catching it here in S'pore). Cool! A two-person play, a witty and entertaining script that gets the whole story moving, sound and lighting effects that convey the suspense and thrill of the moment. Vivian and Alex couldn't be persuaded to join us, so it was just Jingye, Jed and Junsheng.

The past week = messy

Thursday - spent the day going to and fro the two places (the old and the new homes), moving whatever we could with us. Thiha dropped by twice on Thurs to help with assembling the IKEA pieces - hammering and fixing shelves, 'doing the manly tasks'. Chuck in a SingSoc meeting that night.

Friday - ZF came to help with whatever she could. :) That morn we took Dofu to the vet. She had been coughing and her right ear hurt... so we thought something was up. Sure enough, she was running a fever, and had a cold and cough, and that kinda led along to a fungal infection. Bah. She must've had too much fruits last week during the BBQ... blame it on Jed and Alex! At night was SingSoc's pre-departure session for this year's freshers, so I had to be off in the evening for that event. This year... we have 2 bio juniors, both girls, both PSC-MOE scholars. Having only had Macca's chicken nuggets and McWings for the whole day, my stomach was growing throughout the session... it only ended at 10+pm and I devoured a whole honey-glazed chicken from Cold Storage upon reaching home.

Saturday - tried setting up the TV (normal and cable) in the morn since Jane was admanant that she does not miss the weekly screening Pokemon. I was terribly late... for duty at Sungei Buloh. The 'customers' were my alma mater - TKGS. The Guides were paying Sungei Buloh a visit, and Min Yu, my batchmate and former patrolmate, as a Young Adult Leader (something like a Cadet Lieutenant) had organised it so that I would be able to bring them around that day. But I was 2 hours late... Thiha had already brought them around the boardwalk and to route 1, so I accompanied them back to the visitor centre from platform 1. I met my former Chinese teacher who's one of the Guiders, and also one of my "ma'am's" who tried but couldn't quite remember who I was. :P Vivian and her bf came down too, and for the rest of the day I brought them around. Still trying hard to pull the rest of the gang along to Buloh...

Sunday - hmm... slept in. Unpacked more boxes, went out with my family... came back and did more unpacking and tidying.

Still no internet, no cable, no tv. I didn't mind, not really. But I was barely surviving. Playing Solitaire and Freecell when I was bored and didn't feel like packing.

The thing that gets me is how incapable I am rendered when I do not have internet access. Unable to fulfil my responsibilities, delegating tasks onto others, unable to perform. I hate that feeling. I can't exactly tell that conservationist from India or Indonesia to "wait, hold on, I'm moving to a new house and won't have internet for a while... can you hold off the petition or fax that letter a bit later?" or stuff like that.

Monday - National Day. Sigh. Didn't manage to get tickets for this year's parade. Jane really wanted to watch it... she hasn't done so before, and this is the last time it'll be held at the national stadium. That day we welcomed Poncho, or Banjo (as Jane prefers it), the newest addition to the family. He's an African Grey Parrot, supposedly the best talker among all birds, with the intellectual capacity of a 5-year-old child and the emotional equivalent of a 2-year-old. My godbro's family gave him (we *assume it's a him... you can't tell by its looks) to us... saying that he talks too much. Hmm... he's been pretty quiet the first day.

Tuesday - bludged around the whole day, spent some time with Banjo (Poncho), settled SingSoc stuff. Had a crowd of a meeting at night... at my place... since it was in a 'central' location... both ExCo and Sojourn comms. ~20 people... waa and it'll not be the last time.

Wednesday - GVN's Kent Ridge walk was cancelled... forgot what else I did that arvo. At night we almost watched King Arthur but caught The Village in the end. Lionel, Jed, and Jingye, too, insisted that I get a taste of shopping centres in the North, so the Jedi drove past the cinemas on Orchard to Bishan's Junction 8! lol... rright... extra sound effects... hammering and drilling sounds from below during the movie... which was itself a rather hrm, weird, movie with a twist. Not as chilling as I had thought it might be. (Lionel: "Ge worse!" when it ended, and Jingye the Thinker: "Not bad, not bad. Quite original.")

Nothing much on Thursday... wushu session... with the staff and the works... training and taming Banjo... and SingSoc meeting at night.

Friday? Well now...

posted by Husky @ 8/13/2004 01:55:23 PM  |