apr 2006 - some

[010406] traffic jam outside Kong Meng San Phor Kark See temple on e way to wushu - Qing Ming, which means that cat day is coming - what an association ;)

first time do dan1 pai1 until palm bled....but couldn't find anything sharp on e right shoe that could have caused e wound. plaster kept tearing off with each wu3 hua1 jian4 - & there was no masking tape available (something e cat has used before on its feet & fingers).

[020406] many many new condos popping up in e East = many many moving to this part of e island with their many many cars clogging up East Coast Road (esp outside Katong Family Church), Marine Parade Road, Jalan Eunos, Still Road & e ECP. even East Coast Park Service Road gets jammed on weekday mornings with cars using it as a faster alternative to ECP up till Fort Road.

& many many big fat energy-guzzling SUVs/MPVs (should they be banned to decrease national dependence on oil imports?) that threaten to mow down primary school kids - unwritten rule that e more someone pays for a car, e more (s)he believes (s)he owns e road? kudos to e hardworking school attendant who stands barefoot in e middle of e junction every morning & directs traffic to allow e kids to cross safely. he keeps a firm grip on drivers who care only about their own kids but not other people's kids, so that e list of students from that primary school who have died after being knocked down just beyond e school gates doesn't grow.

long long journey to e west: 40 min bus ride through e East Coast Road jam to e MRT + 40 min MRT ride to Boon Lay + feeder bus....to attend a SPS-ian's baby first month celebration:



suaku cat dunno that traditional stuff is now available in such nice convenient packages....red egg *check* ang ku kueh *check* glutinous rice with dunno what bean/nut *hmmm* fruit tart *?!* maybe e cat is not up to date on traditions =P

e following exchange took place with a current JC teacher....

honours classmate: so you're teaching now?
cat: HAR??!! *tries hard not to burst out laughing - MOUTH IS FULL*

shows how well she knows e cat....study bio must become teacher meh? >_< OK close friends can stop laughing their toes off now ;)

attending events like this (& observing e conversations floating about there) brings to mind what blinkymummy refers to as e BBQ life =| thankfully there was another fellow SPS-ian for company....who said that she has nothing much in common to talk about with many little-red-dotters, when conversations don't venture very far beyond how much are you making, when are you ROM-ing/planning first kid/registering as parent volunteer with brand name primary school, movies, cars, handphones, shoes, clothes, condos, housing & car loans, insurance, credit cards, gym memberships....which is why she thinks she has few friends....ah so-ka....e cat isn't alone in its 'at a loss for conversation' at such events ;)

e cat finally found its perfect mousepad at Jurong Point (less crowded than Parkway Parade - another indication of e mass-migration to e East?), & cleared off other stuff on its to-do/to-buy/to stock-up-on list, in e process justifying e travelling time (ensuring that it did not exceed time spent at e destination) ;)

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rest of mar 2006

[250306] cat's first time at Suntory's Sun with Moon Japanese Dining Cafe @ Wheelock, with with Fangus, SF, WH & two SYs; more about e food here.

e one who has been perpetually late since sec 1 was post-call....& once again she kept falling asleep on buses & getting further & further away from her destination, finally reaching when we were almost done with dessert. one of e SYs has a Korean bf, & confirmed that Korean men as depicted in Korean TV drama serials & movies are not what real Korean men (& e 6 of us) consider men *lol*

defected to Mac's Cafe @ Lido after a brief 'sit-down' at Borders cafe....where another classmate (doing her PhD in another department of e cat's current faculty) bumped into us. rather stunned - it is rare enough to bump into any one of us, let alone 5 (one had left to go back to office....on a Saturday night) at one go!

how many female doctors have non-doctor other halves? who can wait 2-3 hours beyond an appointed meeting time as her post-call drags towards dinner time? & continues dragging on until she cannot make it for dinner in e end? (actually she can, but it is quite impossible to eat while asleep) & repeat for as long as she kena postings that give her up to 2 days off per month? & every time she is asked about getting e actual process of getting married done with & out of e way, reply is 2 years later/after e upcoming BST/internal med/whatever/(in future maybe AST) exams? & when he falls ill, she can only tell him to take 2 panadols & stop whining & then hang up to respond to yet another page? & not kick up a big fat fuss, but complain nicely about not being able to be like 'normal couples'? anyway, ridiculous postings now give e one who has been perpetually late since sec 1 official reasons for being late ;)

[260306] bumped into Phoa at Marine Parade Central. 20 years since ending up in primary 1D together, & years later we worked together on Pre-U seminar in e same JC where we both walked to school....nice feeling to be able to bump into kindergarten & primary school friends in e same neighbourhood after we've all grown up, childhood friends who are still staying in Marine Terrace/Crescent/Drive/Bedok South/Chai Chee/Telok Kurau/Katong/Joo Chiat/Siglap/etc. esp in a time when nobody stays in one place for long (upgrading craze), & Tao Nan has evolved from a neighbourhood school into a brand name that attracts students from afar. despite e switch to e usage of dialect names more than 10 years ago, e cat is just too used to calling Phoa by her hanyu pinyin name =)

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