Cylee Thoughts

Remnants from a mentally confused mind

Sunday, January 14, 2007

SYJ

It was a fine day yesterday. Having rained earlier in the day, I was looking forward to return home from work to a cool bed ready for a good snooze. Then the message from Ying came at 4.30pm. Dinner at 6?

Ahh...that really put me in a dire predicament. Cool bed, or meet up with friends who you haven't met in quite some time but know will irritate the hell out of you? Took me all of 3 seconds to decide. Cool bed. My fingers seems to think otherwise though as the message I sms back was 'ok'. Guess I'm a masochist at heart.

Meet up with Ying and Shahrin at a nasi padang shop for dinner at Boat Quay after work and exchanged our recent doings. It's always nice when you have someone like Shahrin around. He knows places and people and can always get good discounts. Like at the nasi padang shop, he's at the platinum customer status according to the staff there and got us a whopping big discount of 40 cents.

After, we met up with Wu Jet Jet (that's how it's spelled?) and went to Club Street with intend for dessert with Auntie June. While waiting for June to reach, I had tour of Club Street led by my two worldly friends. For a village nerd like me, it was really an eye opener. The prices of items in the shops there was also a jaw dropper. Like this shop selling Nordic stuff (how the heck they knew about such shop?), everything is just so expensive. I have no doubt if they sell socks, each pair would cost me an arm and a leg. Probably woven from snowy white fleece of some exotic sheep that can only be found at the peak of a faraway Scandinavian mountain.

June finally came and while she had dinner at Jerry's, we had dessert. I had a pecan pie and it was good! With the night still early, we started to make plans and decided on catching a movie. Then came the battle of the sexes. We guys want to catch Pan's Labyrinth but the gals wanted to watch Blood Diamond. 'Leo Leo Leo. We want Leo!' went the bimbotic chants.

We decided to call a truce and proceed to Plaza Singapura first, where both movies are showing. At the ticketing counter, we guys decided to be gentlemen and watch Blood Diamond. Of course, the lack of seats for Pan's Labyrinth played a part in our decision, but it was just a tiny weeny part. At least it showed we made good choice as Pan's Labyrinth is a more sought after movie than Blood Diamond. Then again, the gals weren't really bothered with these. They were already chanting 'Leo Leo Leo. We got Leo!'

Well, Blood Diamond is a good movie, just a tad too much shooting for my liking. I came away from the movie with a hard to descripe feeling. Shahrin said he felt the movie was a bit heavy, and I guess that's quite an apt description. In anycase, if females stop buying diamonds after watching this movie, if I get a girlfriend, this is definitely a must watch VCD for her.

Okay, at I promised, I've put up some of my Vietnam trip photos. Now I'll end this post with a Vietnamese MTV.

posted by Cylee at 10:23 am I