Exhale

Stayed up till 3am on Thursday Night (friday morning?) before finally giving up watching Liu Xing Hua Yan [Meteor Garden II] and went to sleep while Sylvia and Gwen continued ploughing through the entire volume. That show is extremely addicitve!

Gripping plot: Boy drives a car to propose to girlfriend. Boy meets an accident and loses his memory. Boy falls in love with Michelle Saram. Michelle Saram has an annoying giggle. Old girlfriend cries. After about 20 episodes, Boy finally regains memory. Boy has to decide between 2 girlfriends. Boy finally proposes to old girlfriend and they get married.

Gwen: *looks cheated* The show started at one point...it went in one long big circle and came exactly back to the same point!

Still haven't quite recovered from the lack of sleep during our stay at Ann's. Still, went downtown with Gwen, Pea, Ann and Anj today to catch Love Actually. Was accosted in Orchard MRT by a zealous lot of teenagers who kept pestering us to buy these lucky draw coupons to raise funds for youths in drug rehabilitation. I tend to be quite wary of these ticket sellers after 2 guys extorted me of 4 dollars (which are supposedly benefiting disabled orphans now) on the day of the prom.

Guy #1: *bears the same beseeching look those NKF patients have* Could you please donate $2? It will greatly benefit the poor, disadvantaged orphans and will contribute greatly to our efforts in establishing a.....*continues reading from a script*
Me: Oh eh ok...*pulls out some money*
Guy #2: *comes over with same beseeching look* Could you please buy one of my tickets too?? It would greatly benefit the poor, disadvantaged orphans and contribue to our efforts to....
Me: Ahh...eh....ok then...*pulls out 2 more dollars*

Later on.

Me: I can't believe I gave them 4 dollars!
Anj: I can't believe you gave them 4 dollars!

So was determined to avoid any repeat incidents today at Orchard Mert.

Guy #1: *waving tickets around* Hi would you like to -
Me: Oh I've already bought.
Guy #2: *suddenly jumps in front of us* HI! COULD YOU PLEASE BUY A TICKET FROM ME ITS JUST TWO DOLLARS - !!!
Gwen: *grabs my arms violently* We've already bought thank you! *drags me away*
Guy #2: *follows us* OH BUT YOU SEE YOU COULD ALWAYS BUY ANOTHER ITS REALLY CHEAP JUST 2 DOLLARS PLEASE???? YOU COULD SPLIT AND PAY ONE DOLLAR EACH!
Gwen: No no no!! *breaks into a run*
Guy #2: *runs after us* I'M SURE YOU CAN AFFORD 2 DOLLARS MISS YOU SEE IT MAY BE A SMALL AMOUNT TO YOU BUT IT COULD MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE TO THESE POOR, DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN !!!
Gwen: *bellowing* NOOOO!!!! *yanks me toward the escalator*

We passed by them again later and some other guy tried to sell us more tickets.

Guy: Hi could you -?
Gwen: *snaps* Aiya buy them yourself la.
Guy: *totally bewildered* What?

Later conceded that we were quite mean to him.


And Ann continues to amaze me with her devotion to Orlando.

At a distance, without wearing her glasses, she somehow manages to spy a poster of Orlando Bloom (for ROTK) across the bustling street and shriek "OMG!!" while I'm still looking around trying to see what she's talking about. So for the rest of the day we tried to avoid the poster lest she go into a convulsion. And after the movie, she immediately got into a cab and went off to NUS in search of a computer to download all her Orly goodies on the web because her own computer was too "slow". Whoa.

Met Charmaine and Sherry later on at Taka where they were on some "Amazing Race" kinda thing organized by Charmaine's church. Gwen, Anjali and I were suddenly drawn into this dance number by the 2 of them.

"Aaaasssss weeeeee.....walk to the left and we walk to the right, as we walk as we walk and we walk all night! With a heel and a toe and a half turn around, with a heel and a toe and a new friend fooouuuunnnnddddd!!!!

Forced to dance to that in the middle of Orchard because Charmaine refused to let me go.

Me: Dance?! What dance?! I don't want to dance in front of strangers! *creeps away*
Charmaine: NOO!!! NO JEANNE!!! DON'T GO! *grabs my arm and throws me back into the circle*

Whoa again. She'll make a good bouncer!

Gwen wants to go dancing. Anjali wants to tan. I want to shop. Pea wants to hide in Borders/Kino. And I think Ann wants to buy/beg/steal the poster on Orchard Road.

Can forget about going to work I guess.

posted by Jeanne @ 9:12 PM