"So, who we talking bout again?"

EVERYONE OUT THERE WILL HAVE A BRILLIANT CHRISTMAS!
But then again, Christmas is over, so, Happy Boxing Day!
But we should all take a moment to mourn for all the victims who lost their lives to the Tsunami last year this day, one minute's silence please.

Sigh. Exactly twenty days later and the time now is six thirty p.m. (what exactly does p.m. stand for? Wait let me go check! Okay here we go, Bessie has a book titled 'The New First Aid In English, Revised' and it used to be my bible. Nah joking I'm not neurotic. Okay, p.m. is the abbreviation of post meridiem and it means after noon. Which naturally brings us to the abbreviation, a.m., which stands for ante meridiem and that means before noon. Wow this book IS cool!)

Christmas Eve was spent with the family in the afternoon, and then with partial 9P in the evening through night and till the next afternoon. Well I was feeling a little out of sorts but overall it was okay. 9P went to Suntec City for Crystal Jade originally, but some of them were saying that it was weird when we sat in the restaurant looking like Dabing in Deuce Bigalow, European Gigolo (read: out of place) and so we ended up eating Carl's Jr. and making lame jokes out of stuff. We played with this scary, pain inducing but fun shark toy that Jas gave me as a present among a very very cute JAY CHOU kiap kiap from taiwan and this letter pad with pictures of shit on the pages, which I thought was very apt! Thankyousoverymuch skippy! :) We also read the wonderful and cute Christmas cards from Kesi and tried to figure how to work the gumball machine from dg and tofu! Yep it was great fun and when dt joined us with her league of polyshrink in tow it was so so amazing! haha! (Of course melmel's marsmellows will come in later!)

We then proceeded to the Esplanade and there I saw WJW! It was quite a surprise indeed and we wished each other a merry christmas and went our separate ways. Cai called to say that she might join us, that she won't be joining us, that she will come find us and that ultimately she won't be coming for countdown with us. (And later on the bus tofu was saying that if she were cai she would not want to go to Esplanade all the way from Orchard and I decided that I would not too especially since the roads would be bloody jammed and the trains, bloody packed.) Countdown at the Esplanade was rather mellow. Most of the time we were speculating if those disgusting foam from disgusting spray cans would come our way the moment the clock struck twelve and everybody holding a spray can assumed that there was too much goodwill in the air for innocent bystanders to attempt to grab those disgusting spray cans out of their hands and throw them into the sea or stomp on them violently, which would be what I would have done if a stream of foam had landed on any of 9P or me. Luckily, they were all intelligent enough not to attempt to shoot any foam on us and we were intelligent enough to get out of the way. Oh and we prank-called people and stuff and it was all quite fun thinking of what to say but after the call was made it didn't seem so fun anymore because one of them called the police and had us arrested. Nah just kidding, we didn't get arrested, we got off with a police warning. Nah, that's not true nothing happened to us because I think the victims did not understand what we were trying to say. Oh well. So much for the planning.

After that we took 181M to skipppppppppy's house for the stayover! Yes and it was only skippy, mel, tofu and me. Ah well, here's where the wonderful marshmellows melmel bought for me comes in! YAY! We ate them on the bus and they were heavenly. :) We passed Ministry Of Sound and there was a long long long queue outside. Terrible. And to think Carolyn had thought of making a booking beforehand. Brilliant move. Okay anyway the bus stopped at the non-existent bus stop opposite Segar LRT station and they were being lame about it being some ghostly bus stop that only appeared when the bus approached at midnight blabla.. But it was only an invisible bus stop.

At skippy's house Toffee and Honey were barking, like they always do when we drop by and in that very night I stepped on dog urine for the first time in my life, but I also carried Toffee for the first time in my life. There is absolutely nothing wrong with carrying Toffee, he's cute, soft, cuddly and friendly. Save for the fact that he loves to grab hold to any part of any friend of skippy and do wrong things to those parts, which will not be elaborated. But he is still adorable after all, and so is Honey, under that extremely tough exterior he put on. :)
At skippy's house we watched tellyvision and well, slept. I know, I fell asleep while the telly was on but I couldn't help it. We were supposed to have stayed up to talk. But I fell asleep. :(
In the morning jas' sister let in the dogs on us. Honey ran around in a frenzy and Toffee jumped up skippy's bed. I vaguely remember skippy's sister chasing Honey, trying to catch him and she succeeded and I went back to sleep. I had a dream about going back to school without completing my History Assignment and that every single one of my classmates had bags of presents to give out to everone else in class and that I had not brought a single gift. It was so weird I swear, even Kularesh had a huge bag of presents to hand out and I strongly believe that that would not happen in real life.
We went to the revamped BP plaza with Cafe Cartel and had wanted to eat at Cartel but the queue was so long that we decided to eat at Yoshinoya's instead. Yoshinoya's good too because they serve good food at a good price. And the staff there shouting something that sounds like "mumblemumbleMASE!" was funny and later I asked tofu and she said that it was supposed to be something the likes of "Irasaimase!" and it meant "welcome, thank you for patronising us and we sincerely hope that you will enjoy your meal with us here at __insert restaurant name__" Well no, actually it only means "Huan Ying Guang Ling" and that is something like "Welcome" that's all.

After that it was home sweet home and I slept when I got home and Phillip brought us for some Japanese steamboat at IMM (I have always wondered what 'IMM' stands for) at night and I saw somebody who had small eyes who reminded me of a certain someone but on the second look I realised it wasn't so at all. When we got home Joe was there and he had bought an ice cream cake for Carolyn as it was her birthday and we played with dry ice and it was so cool! (pun intended but okay that's not funny) Following that the four of them packed themselves into Carolyn's room for a mahjong session. I was happily watching tellyvision when suddenly Bessie called me into the room and told me to get Carolyn a cup of water with a vitamin C effervescent in it. I was so cross that they were treating me like a maid and that considering that our house isn't very big, she could have gotten that cup of water with the effervescent tablet in it by herself but she had refused to do so. And I stayed cross the whole night and could not enjoy the rest of "Christmas Carol: A Musical" that I had been watching on tellyvision because they had treated me like a maid and the thought that was repeating itself in my mind was that "Gambling is disgusting I shall never ever touch a mahjong tile forever!"
But then again if I wasn't the one touching those mahjong tiles I'd probably be the one serving the glasses of water with vitamin C effervescent tablets in them so the next time Joe comes around for some mahjong session I'd be the first one in the game.

Happy Christmas everybody!

Love is a Many-Splendoured Thing

Some days it's rainy, some days it's sunny.
Some days it's neither here nor there, and these are the days Vanessa do not like. It's messes up every thing.
Actually every day is a mess for Vanessa during this holiday.
While Phillip, Bessie and Carolyn are off to work, guess who stays at home to look after the house? (Now Vanessa sounds like a house dog.)
But no, she isn't a house dog, for which house dog gets to watch tellyvision, listen to music, play Solitaire/Mindsweeper/FreeCell/Hearts/PinBall on the computer, play Xbox, answer all of Phillip's and Bessie's calls (Carolyn does not call Vanessa because honestly, it is unnecessary), watch more tellyvision and fix lunch? Of course the above can be highly detrimental to Vanessa's social life, but she is lucky she does not have to do them on a daily basis.
Just the other day, Vanessa met up with Four of them to buy Carine's jeans at Bugis Street. And the Five of them had a wonderful time sitting outside the National Library telling stories. And it was most enjoyable indeed.

(And at this point in time, Vanessa is thinking that maybe being in a relationship should be a happy thing for two people, and not just one, because one happy person in a two-people thing is wrong. And also, living for the moment is important too, because one never knows what will happen tomorrow and hanging on to something that is dead is wrong too. BUT Vanessa knows that thinking this way has huge consequences and definitely she does not want the Two of them to get hurt in any way so you can forget about what Vanessa has said and carry on in the present situation until you really cannot take it and then it's goodbye.)

At the end of the day Vanessa had a bus ride home, thinking and thinking. There was a cockroach in the bus, together with a driver and a few passengers who all got off at this particular stop, leaving the driver, Vanessa and the cockroach on the bus. But it was calming that way, albeit more so without the cockroach, and Vanessa thinks that buses are comfortable transportation, especially at night.
And maybe Vanessa will go on a bus ride one of these days to test the new bus route that had just been implemented at the bus stop below. It is a route to Bishan and it is cool because it means that Vanessa will now have direct buses to Bishan, Boon Lay, BukitBatok, Choa Chu Kang, Clementi, Harbourfront, Jurong East, Woodlands, which is pretty much considering that the middle parts of the routes have not been added in the list. Which is why Vanessa likes taking buses. :)

And just yesterday Vanessa went on a photography trip with Two of them and it was great fun and she enjoyed herself very much. She laughed alot on the trip and it was a great day out.
On Sunday Vanessa had wanted to go to the beach with all Eight of them, but one of them had work to do although she had wanted to go on that day itself but could not because it was cancelled, one of them had a gathering with her class to visit a teacher, one of them had work, one of them could not go because her mother would not allow her to and she had to go to the optometrist, one of them had an eye infection but she did not pull out but Vanessa guessed that it would have affected her somehow like she could not play in the water, one of them could not play in the water because her mother did not allow her to and in the end Vanessa cancelled the outing because it was rather pointless as it was supposed to be a Nine People thing.

Vanessa has a friend called Priscillia and she is this small girl who is so cute that Vanessa often feels like pinching her cheeks! (ha ha nah that is a joke because it would be pretty psychotic.) The two of them are classmates and Priscillia has made Vanessa laugh many times. :)
And then there's Rachel. Well there is really nothing much that Vanessa can say about Rachel except that she is absolutely retarded. They are classmates too and they went to the World Cyber Games together, for Rachel it was to ogle, for Vanessa, she had sincerely wanted to check out the games. (ha ha.)
And Vanessa has to thank Anita for always roping her in for any job openings there was in the newspaper and here's many thanks to you Anita! :)

TIM BURTON IS BRILLIANT.
JOHNNY DEPP EVEN MORE SO!

Vanessa simply loves Johnny Depp's acting. That Utterly Brilliant Man deserves to be made an icon, together with Tim Burton of course.