Everything but work and studies

Went for my band meeting on Saturday morning. I’m really glad we had a fruitful time again. These people are boiling with ideas. Thank goodness I am just the leader and simply make the decisions and paint the direction and path ahead. It’s the members who are doing the real brain work. Must give them loads of credit – if not all.

I finally found the chain belt I had been searching for the past many many months. I tried to search for it online and in all sorts of stores. The closest I got was at Phuture but the freaky thing cost $69. Then Levi’s came out with one made of Swarovski crystals which was absolutely beautiful but only given if you spent at least $200. Again, ridiculous.

Where I found what I wanted? Under the necklace section (I think) at Aries. There were some belts around there too so it could have been used on either I think. Anyway, it’s a single line of rather large “crystals”. Cost me $17. My budget was $10 to be honest, but since it’s been so long, and it was EXACTLY what I wanted, heck it. Besides, it was nicely polished and in plastic – unlike Phuture which looked like the silver paint was peeling.

Happy with my purchase, I showed it off to Dearie who picked me up for the KTV session I had arranged for that afternoon. Edwin, his girlfriend Fiona and his sister Eileen had a ball of a time. Me too, of course. Dearie slept through about 3 hours of the session while Weitang and Zhenyuan were incredibly late.

2-6pm, with a 4 hour voucher at Clementi Partyworld. Nearly cost us $94. Thanks to Dearie checking the bill to see that we didn’t order any jug of beer. In the end, it still amounted to $84. Still damn bloody expensive for an afternoon. But like I say, I don’t mind spending for a good time. Just like how some people like to spend on travelling for a good time? Same thing.

We spent a while thinking about where to go after that. It was raining so Dearie wasn’t able to ride. He had to leave his bike at Clementi central. The rest of the guys weren’t driving today. All their parents needed the cars I guess. Landed up taking a packed train to Outram, and taking a bus to Dearie’s latest craze – SIN HOI SAN.

He really loves the place. His eyes had that gleam Ki has everytime he successfully manages to convince us to go MacDonalds. We had fantastic tasting humongous crabs amongst other dishes. Total bill came up to $180. (Mainly ‘cos we made a mistake by calling some clam dish that cost us $30.) Dearie was happy anyway. Hey, I paid lehz. Of course happy lah!

Guess where we went after.

Suntec.

And it wasn’t even for a movie. Remember that arcade machine Edwin spent about $10 on? Yep. We went there just to play that stupid thingy. This time was another type of machine but same prizes of handphones, PSPs, etc.

I even tried my hand at it too. Dearie also. Even the most sceptical of us Zhenyuan tried it. Hahaha! Super fun, but super waste of money. $1 per try. It works like a jackpot thingy. Very cool. It’s the closest we can get to gambling at a casino I think.

We all walked back empty handed, and a few dollars poorer. Better than this couple who was trying to catch some mini-“bu4 dao3 weng1” at a different machine. (The kind you get in gatcha machines.) The girl just kept playing over and over. The guy kept giving her the money. Total damage to his wallet was more than $30. In the end she only walked away with 2 of the little toys.

Dearie and I walked all the way back to catch a train while the rest of them took the bus. We were very tired. Simple Saturday spent, but happily albeit super expensive. I didn’t bring my mobile with me the entire day, but I didn’t miss it. No one contacted me, except for my mummy who sms-ed Dearie saying that I needed to be extremely quiet when I went home.

Turns out, I didn’t go home. For the second time in our entire nearly 4 years together, I stayed over at Dearie’s place. Told ya I don’t like to stay over anywhere else but home, but what they hey.. not like it’s everyday. Unprepared, I changed into his t-shirt and shorts after a quick bath at his place.

Then the both of us got hungry.

Walked out for some food nearby. There was something very romantic about that night, come to think of it. All we did was walk out, get food, eat, walk back, sleep. I said I wanted to get back home at 10am in time to play with Kiki.

The alarm went off at 8:45am just like I set it. We only got up at 10:35am. Oops.

After trying to push each other to get up first, we finally got our act together and left for my place at 11:30am. We were greeted with the squeals of an excited Ki enjoying his bath in his “swimming pool”.

My dad then made a paper plane for him.


Of course, my dad then moved on to his regular newspapers and Ki went about his business of being cheeky.


I made noodles for Dearie, and while I took over to take care of Ki, my mum helped to prepare mine. Dearie and I enjoyed 3 hours of CSI with a very naughty ki jumping all over the place trying to get us to play with him.

He even used a remote control for his car as a gun to shoot Dearie and me.


Dearie and I also lapped up the mini orange pieces Ki stole from my mum.


We caught another 2 hours of Star Movies playing Total Recall which Dearie was very glad to catch the mostly uncensored version for the 1st time.

I took a nap right after Dearie left at 5pm. I woke up and saw that my younger sis was home at 6pm. My parents were also trying to get Ki ready for going out for dinner – after that we were sending him back to the other grandma’s place.

He started to get chatty and bargained for a reassurance that he will be coming back to our place after dinner. This guarantee he sought was not given. He was so worried we were going to send him home immediately, so we took him for dinner, some grocery shopping, THEN back home.

Caught the movie “Raising Helen” on Star Movies with my sis that night. Heartwarming movie that makes you appreciate mums. And proves that mummies all over the world are pretty much the same. Universal traits. Equally amazing. Mothers are the best. They’re the strongest, most selfless people. At least it applies for my mummy.

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By the way, I was wondering to myself about that movie “In Her Shoes”. I haven’t watched it but although there are 3 sisters in my family, me and my younger sis seem to have some resemblance to Cameron Diaz and Toni Collette’s characters.

All I know about the movie is from the trailer so I’m just guessing when it comes to what the actual screen characters are. I am like Toni Collette – seemingly ungroomed and unexciting; usually buried in work, family, boyfriend or other commitments. My pig of a sister is like Cameron Diaz – very pretty, carefree, and gets away with just about anything. Yet the two of us have similarities when it comes to shoe size (and fashion senses).

Oh. I noticed something very cute too:
I have a younger sister.
Dearie has a younger sister.
Edwin has a younger sister.
Weitang has a younger sister.
Fiona has a younger sister.
Zhenyuan has sisters (but I don’t know if any younger ones).

In my gang, YL, Bladey, Evon, my sis, and YX all do not have any younger sisters.

Hahahaha!

But seriously, there’s this protectiveness that we elder siblings have over the younger ones. Particularly when it comes to sisters. And these younger sisters have this tendency to be able to “control” the elder ones while irritating them.

It’s almost motherly/fatherly. An in-built instinct. No matter how irritating the little ones are, there will always be this inclination for us to want to be some sort of role model for them. We want to protect them. We want to be able to look over them. We want them not to make the mistakes we did, and guide them towards what we would have otherwise done. Yet we want to be their friend. The person they can trust. Don’t these sound like what parents do? [Of course parents do waaaaay more. Haha!]

That’s what I realised amongst us all. This common trait that we seem to have. How we want to treat our sisters as the same as our friends, yet on some unspoken level, when they’re around we will watch ourselves when it comes to behaviour. Let them have the fun they seek, as long as we’re here watching, it’s ok. We’ll make sure all is ok.

The younger ones, on the other hand, love to annoy us. They take pleasure in doing stuff that irritate the hell out of you. Yet we don’t mind it. We let them. In their strange way of expressing their way of affinity, they test our limits and go all the way in poking at us with much glee. They also make us do things for them, like grab something far away for them, go out of your way to help with their homework, and the likes of these things. We let them control us to a certain extent, like how what they say always matters.

Plenty of funny little details between two sisters. It’s funnier when you see two elder ones talk to each other about the younger ones. Almost sounds as if we were parents talking about our kids. It’s queer.

For me, I admit I sometimes get jealous of my sis. Sometimes it’s envy. Hey, she IS prettier and she IS smarter. But then, our differences in the way we lead our lives justifies that these traits may not be the stuff I should be envious or jealous about. I am not her. She is not me. We are our own person so what matters to one may not matter to the other.

She would take a $1000 to travel. Be it budget or normal airlines, she’ll make sure she has a good time. I on the other hand, if were to take the money to travel, would make sure it were a good airline, good hotel and when I get there I don’t want to worry about any spending and do as I please.

She may also take the money to buy plenty of clothes, and splurge on a wonderful night out with lots of alcohol for everyone to have. I would want to get a digital piano. But me being me, such a sucker for exact stuff that I want, may not land up with the piano till much later after a lot of searching and research.

Meanwhile, the idea of plenty of clothes and a good time out with friends sounds good.