yahoo! its the wkend! hahaha =D *little jig of joy* oh well i feel quite distant from my comp, haha nowadays seems like i only touch it once per wk. hmm. yay its october! time reali flies huh, seems like yesterday tt i celebrated chinese new yr lor... sunday was a... hmm dunno how to say lah. meiling flew back to UK! leaving us poor deprived souls pottering ard smallish teeny s'pore. me, xtine, lihui, zhengyi n meiling's fren louise went to see her off (yep for abt the millionth time i tink ahah). but it wasnt a terribly sad parting, cos meiling is coming bac in december! yayay! we'd prob b able to finally go on a proper ktv marathon then, all 5 of us! had been a long time since we reali sang ourselves hoarse... oh n louise is a reali farnie guy ahah very much on our wavelength! in the end the 6 of us ended up in BK in hysterical laughter n non-stop chatter; tink we erm disrupted the early mornin peace n quiet of the airport visitors hoho. =P after a couple of weird photo poses n a last goodbye, zhengyi being true to form, cajoled n bullied louise into sending us to novena as if it was the most natural thg in the world! haha n poor louise was too nice to refuse... in the end, me xtine n zhengyi ended up frantically combing the mooncake stalls for The Ultimate Durian Mooncake! (lihui cldnt join us as she had to mug for test sigh) n there we were, pushing n shoving thru the impossible crowd, tasting mooncakes with that thoughful look on our faces tt say "let me savour n give marks out of ten for ur mooncake"... it was actuali quite fun! too bad goodwood park had no tasters.. in the end we bought four-seasons snowskin mooncakes with real D24 durian filling etc etc for our family members too! practically emptied our wallets in order to buy diff favourites for evryone. yep dont ask we r broke hah. the day b4 mid-autumn festival, i had a guilt-attack for not buying my dad's absolute all-time fav: mixed-nuts mooncake. so decided to stop by lot1 n buy for him. it was late in the evening, i was tired, my bag weighed like i have a few gold bars inside (i wish!) and i was cranky n anxious to get home n plant myself in front of the tv. so... my delusional mind caused me to board the wrong bus! ARGH. i cldnt believe myself! 5 min away fr home n i had to get on an ulu ulu 925 bus instead of 175! a sense of foreboding actuali came over me when i got onto the bus. firstly, no one else boarded the bus. and there were only 3 foreign workers on the bus. n they all looked at me quizzically as if they know smthg tt i do not. but did i care? no! i just happily plopped myself onto the seat. until the bus made a turning tt it wasnt s'pose to. uh-oh. i pressed the bell immediately! with a seemingly nonchalent look of bravado tt says "hey-i-noe-where-i-am-going-ok-i-am-not-tt-stupid-to-board-the-wrong-bus". n all 3 heads swivelled round to look at me. n guess wat. *drums pls... cymbals clashing* the bus entered the expressway! oh help!! my gosh! i haf no clue watsoever as to where i am headed! i felt like diggin a hole n hiding in it. i was mortified! and by the time i saw a busstop i was convinced i am lost to the world. ok v dramatic huh but i am a scaredy cat! hah. the bus stopped at sm super ulu busy road that had gigantic container trucks bumbling by and no buildings in sight. the busstop just popped out of nowhere! had to cross the road n scrutinise the buses tt were available. msged my sis n xtine, whe were worried n unsympathetic respectively. to quote xtine: lili u r so stupid. ahha hey! i was lost n yet u didnt offer any words of comfort wat is this man... *indignant* oh anyway being called "stupid" by xtine is a sign of the high regard n respect n utmost adoration with which xtine regards the person being addresses. *beams* eheh. i finally got home after a mad flurry of changing buses: 961, 67, then 190. luckily i have bus-pass! thank god for small favours =P mid-autumn festival is here! yay! coincided with hopey's bdae! haha. rushed downstairs with my mum in btw watching tv hee to buy lanterns! used to like lanterns lighted by light-bulbs n accompanied wif music when i was young, but realised the paper ones lighted with candles r much much prettier n more fitting smhow. less commercialized feeling. upon gettin home (still have one show to watch hahah), my mummie started lighting the lanterns to hang them in the balcony, ahhh cos we bought a pack, so there were two seriously hideous creations tt look like giant pumpkin n watermelon with the words "good luck" scrawled very obiang-ly across. eugh. anyway, after we lighted the green one, there came an acrid smell of smthg burning. ARGH the ugly thg was on fire!!! my mum n i were hysterically hopping ard on the spot while the lantern smouldered happily n burst into flames in my hands. we hopped to the bathrm n threw down the lantern! screamed abit more n then drowned the poor burning thg with water. all very action-packed! ahah. n guess wat. the same thg happened with its ugly orange companion. smthg's wrong with these "good luck" lanterns i tell u, must b misnamed ah! mummie, sis n i went down to the garden at ard 11pm to heehee walk ard with lanterns. haha was quite a funny sight to behold, and my mum kept fretting tt she must b the oldest lao wan gu to carry lantern tt day. hehe. we played with sparklers! my mum's 1st time haha. was quite a nice feeling just strolling in the park with only a few ppl still ard, n the moon was so so big n round! looks like a giant egg-yolk in the sky =P n its finally friday! children's day smmore! i love occasions tt call for celebrations! went for tuition at my tuition kid's hse in toa payoh... was quite worried cos on the two previous occasions, i was driven there by yiqing who is tutoring dominic's sister but today is just me. oops. being a super blur sotong when it comes to directions n stuff, i desperately tried to recall wat yiqing n hopey told me the day b4. whew! not bad i only missed the correct stop by one! haah =D was very very very very very very happy with dominic! such a good boy who's self-motivated to study n willing to listen n easy to get along with n crappy at times wahaha =P farnie lor, his response when i gave him his children's day present was "i am not a children!" (yep his exact words, wld haf thot he will b glad to still get presents aiyo wrong grammar smmore wahha) guess how much he got for the test i tutored him on... tadaaaa 27/30!!!!! *pops champagne* yay! am reali reali happy for him n soooooooo proud of him!!!!!!! *gives him a thump on the back* n this has just proved tt i am not a cannot-make-it tutor after all! my 1st tuition lesson with my 1st ever tuition kid is quite successful eh! *rolls out red carpet for myself* yayay! to tell the truth i was reali worried i will turn out to be the most terrible n unqualified tutor ever seen on earth, n i will single-handedly ruin the bright future of whoever is unfortunate enough to hire me. tts y i put off finding a tuition job for so long! n ok, i may not b the best but cant b too bad lah rite? *hopeful* oh but had a terrible lesson with him today as we struggled with the truth abt solutions n mixtures. gah he's reali very weak in this topic! explained a zillion times n drew a zillion diagrams until my normally booming voice was reduced to a pathetic croak. oh well. but i guess the gratifying thg abt tuition is giving an explanation tt finally made the kid sees the light! n i realise its near impossible to lose one's patience esp when u see the kid trying so hard. my heart goes out to him. *patpat* ahh tink dominic's feeling the stress, wat with his teachers rushing thru the last few topics n me n hopey giving him mountains of homework. =P haha hang in there! still a long way to go woah... haha he was telling me abt the time he almost chopped off his finger during technical lesson... aiyo! made me reminiscent of my own technical lessons too... so fun!!! n my sch's top home econs student was a guy n that for technical was a girl hiak. oh yar i finally ran today! the one day whereby its not raining n i am not too tired n i am not lost n i am not watching movie n i am not mugging... *proud* oh well time to check mail... HApPy ChiLDreN's DaY!!!!!!!!!!!! to the child tt lives on within us! ;D | 