quite an uneventful week, this week.

went for work.
asked for leave on wednesday to go for drum class.

but the problem with this kind of work is that a) it's horribly tiring. b) you get paid by the day. NOT by the number of hours i work. so all my hard work of coming real early, hasn't really done much good. c) after day 1 after already being labelled as "lazy", lost most of my interest in it anyway. d) there is NO such thing as paid leave...

so hey, stop work that day to go for drum lessons.
and then get ready to leave, and sms charmaine *outside* my house to see where to meet her, and then she tells me then that she gave me the wrong information and that class begins again next year.

so spend the whole day moping around house again.

thursday was everyone's off day from work, so spent my time mooching around and looking for nicer jobs. and attending interviews.

thursday night: decided to go swimming with this girl, so call in work telling them that i'm not coming again. so, once again, forgo pay. also cancel job searching plans with qing & co.

friday: getting ready to leave. already changed, swimsuit inside. walking around the house checking i left no lights on or anything. and then the phone rings. stand up #2 for this week.

later, french. i don't see the idea in learning how to change speech from indirect to direct and vice versa, and learning present perfect tense... i mean, as long as i can understand everything, who cares what form of verb formation i use?

"you will sound like a doofus whenever it's *your turn* to speak french."

although, that is true.

ah well.

so got stood up again.
twice this week.
which is actually *more* than a once a month idea.

but actually, it's not exactly a stand up, more like a real late call to cancel with a "i'm tired" or "i'm busy" or "i'll see you again some other time" excuse which i maybe could have turned around to suit my favour by arguing.

but what's the use? i mean, if they don't want to go out..[or in..whatever] and you force them to, then they'll be grumpy. and i don't exactly like to hang around grumpy people, so i guess i'll just leave it like that.

and maybe i could have just gone by myself.
but where's the fun in that?

anyway, went to turf city with my mom today. have decided to add "steamed seabass" to my list of favourite singaporean foods [provided that it's served hot and at the oriental or at home and is cut by someone skilful like charlotte or my mom]

helped out in the cooking.
haven't done that in a long time, since mom's pretty uptight in what she cooks and a klutz like me is simply something in her way.

sat at the informal dining table and cut watermelon pieces instead, and a few other things, then left to watch the rerun of crouching tiger, hidden dragon on axn.

[crouching tiger, hidden dragon totally loses its touch when dubbed to english.]