Bombed

was out yesterday with some friends to celebrate a friend's birthday. again, typical us had nothing properly planned so we just ended up having dinner at Billy Bombers in Century Square...

...which leads me to my topic. Billy Bombers is expensive. especially to me, one who's pretty broke right now. but i thought we should probably just try out that diner since none of us had eaten there before.

we ordered (and by "we" i meant all 5 of us) 5 set meals of the exact same food. EXACT same "Yeehaa Great Balls O' Fire Spaghetti" with of course, soup of the day, drinks and ice-cream sundae. so the menu wrote $14.95++. i kinda expected it to be around $17 then. turns out we each had to pay $21.50. Now is that expensive or what?

but you know what? i loved it. it was an awesome and filling(a little too filling heh) meal. i guess maybe part of it was due to the diner's atmosphere and another part, my friends. i seriously LOVED the atmosphere. i loved the entire interior design of the place. it's so..1940s-1970s American-ized diner styled. and if you know me, you'll know what i think of that. :) and the songs they played were perfectly motown. perfect.

in between all that lovely atmospheric dinner, my friends insisted that one of the waitresses was trying to flirt with our only guy friend in the group. well, i'll leave that un-commented. hah

now if anyone wants to treat me to a good meal, you know where to take me. ;)

Thoughts and Desires

apparently, i just blogged a chunk of things and this poop-assed computer erased it all. and i thought it was feeling a bit more cheery.

so i'll just summarise what i mentioned. i want to go back to school. not for work, but just because i'm bored. i want to go back to school for fun. i know. how could i use "school" and "fun" in the same sentence? anywway, i wish i could be in school with my friends now and not have any work to do.

hah, the desires of an elementary kid. tsk.

again, i COULD go travelling. i have been going to the airport alot recently and each time i'm there, the urge to travel gets stronger and stronger. it sucks watching people have their passports checked as they check in while i know i'm just gonna tap my ez-link card on bus 27 later on.

but to travel, i need an air-ticket...and that'll need money.

yesterday, i noticed that my stuffed pooh was gone. the bear that i've had with me for 6 years, was finally gone. well, it had to go or there'd have to be lots of sewing to do.

6 years. that's long. i've grown so much from 11 to 17. from a not so smart person with no general knowledge to a not so smart person with at least a bit of general knowledge. from a kid to a teenager (although i still feel like i'm like kid sometimes). from someone who would have almost joined an anti-boys club to someone who has a lovely celebrity crush on Tyron Leitso. 6 years is alot.

i remember the day when mom bought me that bear. she was the one who asked me if i wanted it, and i was questioning her if she was serious. and then i hesitated about getting it, telling her there was no need to, even though i was dying inside my heart to get it(hey, i was primary 5). she bought it for me anyway. every mother knows her own child. :D

so we walked past my uncle's shop and there sat my grandfather, talking to his friends as usual. he saw that big red plastic bag i was carrying, took a look inside, and said[translated from hainanese],"you still carry a bear at this age?". i just smiled back, protesting in my head that it was my mom who offered to buy that bear. (again, i was primary 5.)

that was 6 years ago. my then 89 year-old grandfather could still talk to me. 6 years later, he doesn't even recognise me anymore.

guess some things change in life, whether we want it or not.

i was planning on changing my style and looks for the school's new semester. like maybe, i could get a new haircut or something. yes.

and then i cut those thoughts out of my mind. why? because i realised that i'm going to school, not a fashion carnival. that's right, SCHOOL. why on earth should i try to change my style? it's school, you bozo, the land of books, teachers and lecture theatres. why should i bother?

ok, i lied. the real reason's because i realised that i'm the worst person who can change. i'm so boring, you cant change me. i cant change me. i'm trying to live with that right now.

suck it in, seige.

News

Scary News:

was watching STARNews Asia last night and there was this report on the Arctic ice. according to scientists' recent research, the ice in the Arctic in 1979 was almost twice as big as it is right now, 2005.

i can't find the image they showed so i drew it out(roughly) for you to view:
here

[this is just my rephrased and rewritten version]:
As you can see(please dont comment on my lousy drawing), by 2060, there will be no more ice in the Arctic region, which means there will be more hurricanes, tornadoes and floods that will affect the coastal regions, including Europe.

i'll be 72. and if *counts lucky stars* i'm still alive, i sure wouldnt want to see that happening. i seriously dont think i'd want to see disasters occuring one after another. it'll scare me, even if i'm 72. what can we really do to prevent this from happening?

Funny/Strange news:

A part-time Santa Claus from Denmark won a compensation of US$5000 from the Danish Air Force for the death of his reindeer.

apparently, 'Rudolf' was grazing on the grass when two F16s flew past above, possibly scaring the reindeer with it's loud noise and it collapsed to the ground and died. thus the compensation.

this is a strange world.