09/8/08

Today felt like 2 days or something. Was supposed to be Xin Ning's economics teacher but was like those super lousy teachers dunno anything just throw notes at students. Somewhere sometime my flu medicine started taking effect and felt almost like alcohol (free alternative courtesy of NS medical). Was on my way back when suddenly I talked about printers and she wanted to get one so we went to Sim Lim to check it out! While deciding walked about Little India and I threaded my eyebrows for the second time. Didn't hurt as much or have as much brow hair on my face like the first time. I think it was quite a good job! *wiggles eyebrows again* After that Chinese girl brought Indian boy to eat Indian food. Been a while and alot of times in camp I keep thinking about Indian food and finally today get to eat it. Yippee. After that dropped by her place to fix up the printer which I was really dumb at doing and ended up wasted alot of time and killed a couple of braincells. Guess some manufacturers don't really like Mac that much yet.

Me and my swollen eyebrows :(

The chinese looking indian waitress

Told Chun Lei in the morning that I wasn't feeling well and probably wasn't going to meet my Primary 5 class in the evening with my nose like a leaking faucet. Felt much better and went to Modestos to meet super long-lost classmates. Was only in their class for a year and 2 of them had close to nil recollection of me besides my near-impossible-to-forget surname. After a bit of catching up the guys jumped straight into talking about NS big time. I don't know why it happens and I constantly remind myself not to talk so much about NS. Weird that I was pretty good friends with Kwong Ming in P5 but somehow after changing class totally dropped contact. After he left and Wee Jia came we moved to Coffee Bean to continue. Perhaps good things come in pairs but it's quite weird that I went to Coffee Bean twice today which is more than I ever been in my life (grand total of 0!). Talk jumped from varsity to pierings *wink* to hair (which I don't have that much of :'( ), basically all over the place. Kinda broke off halfway to talk to Hsin about D2. Somehow felt a little warm reminiscing about the past which has nothing to do with our real life contact time together in school but in a virtual world where I met him in Secondary 1 or 2. For us it was probably much more than that, as real life (school mainly) took a backseat and life and D2 melded into one. It was probably wired in our DNA to get so hooked with both of us having quite a perfectionist and compulsive obsessive streak. For him he got much deeper than I did and I think it was some form of closure sharing with each other how we came to leave the game. His implicit trust in a community where such trust was required and mostly requited cost him one of the most valuable and rare possession in the game. To put into perspective, owning that particular piece of armour is probably unlikelier than winning yesterday's Toto draw and for all the other things he had, there was simply no substitute for him. He was one of the wealthiest players in the game at that point and I can attest to that even after seeing just a little bit of what he had and he's not one to exaggerate. For me it was possibly easier as I got frozen for doing what everyone was doing but unlucky enough to be selected. Looking back, it was a really good thing I got frozen which took me out of the game much earlier than Hsin and it cost him his results at O levels. We both agreed we learnt things from the game but for the portion of our life it took, it probably wasn't worth it. For quite a large part we're both quite similar, with our tendency to remember things about people that probably is small, but somehow significant enough to linger in our memories for darn long. You know you've been staying out too long when everywhere you try to hang out at starts closing. Thanks Wee Jia for the lift back! I felt much safer than when I sit in Brian's car. For that, I'll join the "Stop Bashing Lady Drivers Movement".

Really quirky to meet people like that, *lalala it's a small world after all!* when I kinda just re-met Chun Lei just 2 weeks ago at Brian's farewell party.