lit girls: please send an email to anthologize-subscribe@yahoogroups.com there are like, only 4 peopel apart from myself at the moment which is miserable haha.
friday was cedar's cross country, and i amazed myself firstly by deciding on the spur of the moment to run, and secondly by actually being able to complete the 3.2km. i was happily running with pamela, though we were kindof slacking for quite a significant portion of the course. runnign has never been my element anyway haha so im kind of pleased with myself-- even if the army boys [as of ysterday] were pooh poohing the acheivement [what's it compared to 32km route march? huh? huh? wimpy pansy]
dress code for the day was to wear an old college/ sec school teeshirt, and because of the absurdity of wearing RJ uni to the RJ stop and then going off with su san and ping aik to macritchie [in front of the rj people] i wore my rg house tee and culottes. everybody thought i looked like a little schoolgirl, which is good in the sense that i must carry with me a sense of eternal youth! heh even if it incited joshua to mush my head at greater frequency than usual.
because of the proximity to rj i was going to go crash hist s after x-ctry; especially since i msged jean and found out it was HER yummy paper they'd be discussing. the young [i dont mean to say everyone els eisnt young, there just isnt any other way of classifying us] teachers wanted to go bowling, though, and convinced me to go along despite my protestations for the value of intellectual exercise. anyway, we trooped down to marina's bowling alleys [1.50 a game apparently] only to find that both of them were booked for tournaments. which is pathetic. we ended up playing pool at the rotten tables [i was playing horribly. blechh shel where are you] and then playing daytona for a darned logn time. which was immensely entertaining, esp since ping aik and joshua kept ramming into everyone, and that i got an UGLY green car, and the fact that hist s would have been an immense improvement on the afternoon's activities. nonetheless, it was amusing enough. i think its the most number of games ive ever played at an arcade, apart from the tank wars one at the club. [but that one is actually FUN]
on saturday chern and i went to nadexdha [the russian restaurant at arab street: this is the name of lenin's wife] for lunch and a good long talk- am feeling rather less unsettled now- grins. the food was wonderful though: esp the BORSCH chern and i were mmmmm-ing like crazy. hints of chinese influence though in some of the dishes, esp the pickled cabbage entree-- we concluded that its because russia is on the border with china-- so its intuitive that they share some traits [like spring onions in the borsch... seemed a bit fishy at first but went really well. we want to bring more business there! because the place was rather empty when we went, despite the great food and the authentic russian-ness: we were giggling at the long vodka list and the huge array of liquor on the shelf, as well as the typical dour russian attitude of the waitress. the cute russian guy was a nice bonus too!
went home after because my legs were aching [legacy of the 3.2] instead of tagging along on the ipho route as i intended to do with chern; and basically conked out for the next two hours no thanks to the rank humidity. woke up on time to go out agian though-- menotti's this time for vaish's birthday dinner. how great is that! i mean, an indulgent lunch and an opulent dinner, with the best company you could ask for :)) life certainly cant get better than that.. i think.
i had the set dinner at menotti's which cleaned out my wallet but was completely worth the money. random thought: italian names sound like italian food. my entree was this beef carapaciosomethingorother and i kept thinking of CARAVAGGIO who john berger loves but im still quite hesitant about. im just not comfortable with the sexual energy that invests all his paintings. but ANYWAYY dinner was brill: apart from the mindblowing food the conversation was also first class- and then after ten da-baoed lots of lovely pastry at half price heh. after that we proceeded to chijmes to sit around and yak. chijmes has a great ambience for sittign around and ctaching up-- after a while i didnt want to move at all. dan sent me home afterwards as he used to when we were out late nights in jc; we had a nice talk as well. its been long-- i really miss these people. five months out of jc, and everything seems so far away already: i concede i wasnt the most social of creatures in my second year; but then with all the guys in the army, and all the girls all drifting off in their own directions it sees that we're all lost, in some grand new construct that you may like to call a foretaste of adulthood; though im not too sure about labelling it as such. what i mean is, to gather and talk like we used to is a really refreshing break: perhaps its a reorientation of dispersed youth-- aye im not sure how it can be expressed either.
anyway yes i do realise this entry has been a drag- after being out of a job for a grand total of two days, i am already starting to behave like a hog. you could say that this isnt really my fault, given my horrid interview yesterday [i dont want to talk about it; suffice to say im prob gonna have to study here. cf: egdon was her hades] ive been reduced to a lazy moping existence- spent the rest of yesterday sulking and today sleeping. i really miss teaching, not because it was a good way to occupy mt time and thoughts; but because i really enjoyed talking about things i love to the most fab girls around :)) and also having crazy fun with the other teachers. am feeling witdrawal symptoms now- admittedly, i'm feeling sort of lonely. im being emo right now because of the sharp differnece between the brightness of a school and the bleakness of my prospects [zomg, im stuck in sg.] but before i get angsty and bore everybody i shall be off. to post some poems. so everyone join my yahoogroup haha.
mellie contemplated 12:27 PM
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