Sunday, September 27, 2009

Sunday, September 27th 2009

All right, so I spent the day doing nonsense. I worked hard this week, so I met up with V today and checked out the new shopping malls at Orchard Road. They didn't impress me, Orchard Central was dead. However, I was excited about finally walking into the Dr Martens store, and now I have an idea of how much I need to work for to afford those boots. $300!!!
One month of work should be able to buy me a pair of boots and an iPod.

Also, we went to the score shop at Orchard, but they didn't have the theory workbook I wanted/needed. Then, we walked to Dhoby Ghaut because V had to buy yarn and needles, and try to find that "French for idiots" book. We picked out some yarn (she's making me home-booties!!! The colours of watermelon!) and bought the needle, but couldn't find the language-book. I remembered there is a Yamaha at Plaza Singapura, so we went there, and voila, they had the book I wanted/needed. They had several!
However, I only ended buying one, if only for now. At least the explanations are in English. When I flipped through the other books, I didn't understand half their explanations!

After I said goodbye to V on the way home, I took out the book and flipped through it, mentally trying out some of the exercises, and it seems that Grade 5 theory isn't so bad after all! I'm actually looking forward to it.

It turns out that we're not going to Hong Kong, or even back to Malaysia at the end of this year. We couldn't get any cheap tickets to HK, and we'll be going back to M'sia for Chinese New Year instead which, fortunately and unfortunately, is only several months away. I'll get to work on my theory and slow things down a little and lie with the cute little doggy Ruby every afternoon. The only things I dread about going back to M'sia are the relatives and the 8-hour drive. I may have cool grandparents, but we don't even speak the same language! We don't even speak!! Plus, there are a few really freaky kids there. It's really scary, they don't even act like kids. They don't cry or get dirty or laugh or play stupid games. They just sit there quietly, watching you.

Well, we're going to Bangkok for a short trip after Christmas, and I'm really looking forward to the shopping and the massages and all the other nonsense I can't normally do/get here. I shall leave Dad with Mom this time, no way is Dad going shopping with me again.

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