today is more of a good day for me. had a good night's sleep and woke up early! haha, so glad that i wasn't late. did not have breakfast today. so i went straight to yio chu kang MRT to wat for qi han. he was a little bit late because it was his first time. cannot blame him, if it was me, i might have been even later... so after i met with qi han, we went to yio chu kang community club together. when we reached, augustine wasn't there yet. but after awhile he came. there was nothing to do today. so throughtout my "wait" in the hall for the books, i had to do really dumb stuff... let me see, what did i do... at first  just wanted to sleep. but then cannot fall asleep. then suddenly Nerissa called augustine and we started chatting, talking about the movie later. after she hung up, there was nothing to do again. so it was stoning session. until i started to make chars using cardboard boxes. it was really quite fun, besides, it was a way to reuse the boxes. i feel honoured to be green. what actually happened was that there was really nothing to do. so the students from another school, montford secondary, started throwing the cardboard boxes until the whole hall was in a total mess. really really messy. after that, the idea of making a chair came to me when i saw 2D people trying to lie on many cardboard boxes. but it kept falling. so by using the concept of "strength in numbers", i stuffed a lot of cardboard boxes together to make a chair. the final product was really good. i can even stand on it! anyway, when i was making them, the monfort people started to clean up after their sergeant scolded vulgarities at them. that was so so wrong... ok, then those cadets ( they are from NPCC ) started throwning all those cardboard boxes away... pure destruction, from the way they throw the boxes, using them as weapons against their friends, to the way they throw it into the bin. this will be what i think wll be happening at the end of days. total chaos, total destruction, friends killing friends. that will be such a gruesome and sad scene... talk about the idea of destruction versus creation. in my opinion, my actions were creation oriented while ther actions were more of destruction oriented. humans like to destroy things. especially things that are especially important to others. just look at the way timber industries treat forests. the houses of those pitiful animals are destroyed for the sake of our furniture, warmth, ecetera... it is just so wrong... humans are just so selfish. moving to something else, just before we left, i joined Xing Yun and company for a few games of Heart Attack, using poker cards. so after that 6 of us went to Yio Chu Kang MRT to meet Nerissa. special note to everyone out there, hwa chong guys are really shy when they meet girls, especially pretty ones, except for a small minority. so you could have guessed what happened. only augustine and i were talking to her. that is so not right. hwa chong guys should take more initiative. talk about gender roles. haha... so after that we went to orchard. we separated into two groups when we reached there. qi han's group of hwa chong guys. and nerissa's group of SLC enthusiasts. haha, sounds so weird. i think they went to mac donalds. we went to the food court at 4th level, forgot the name of it. nerissa and i had malay food.  had nasi bryani to be exact. it costs $5!!! the cost price should be like a dollar plus. okay, maybe lets not talk about cost price, it costs less that $4 in bugis. and the portion is more. but nevermind, not that  have a lot of money but, money s earthly matter, what is the point of putting it in such high regard. we cannot bring it to heaven for heaven's sake! pursue eternal matter, not earthly possessions. talking about that, might tell nerissa to join us for church. let her know a bit about Lord Jesus Christ. okay, moving back to the main story, actually the two groups were supposed to meet later for the 4.45pm show when jie comes. she has camp. breaking camp at 2.30pm. but what happened was that the hwa chong people went to catch the 2 pm show. haha... but actually i do not mind them going off though. no offence. so after lunch was window shopping session. mizuno shoes are really light and really expensive too... the best thing is that i can wear them to school. but still its too expensive. so... sob sob... after that i went to change into my track suit, wth singlet inside. my first time dressing like that, really hoped that it did not turn out that badly. so when jie came we met her at the MRT, she was so so shagged from the camp. you can see the weariness in her eyes. talking about eyes, jie had gone blind. she spoilt her spectacles. so she couldn't really see very far away. and her degree is 400+. so, you can imagine... when we reached lido, it was still too early, so we ordered fries to eat... so fattening, but there is nothing much you can do while waiting for a movie to start and having a mac donalds like not more than 10 metres away. augustine bought jasmine green tea for the ladies. but then jie doesn't drink green tea. she likes the hot, unsweetened ones. so augustine went to buy lemon tea for her. augustine kept treating us stuff today until he was really broke. and then Nerissa ( wan xin is much easier to call ) kept trying to return him the money, or from her point of view clearing away her coins, kept trying to stuff three one-dollar coins into his bag. all the way until even the movie was starting or had started. cannot remember. then augustine had no choice but to accept but truthfully speaking, she was really trying to empty her coins. we went to lido classic theater for the movie, we watched harry potter together. basically, it was quite good. but vague. very vague. so i am intending to get the book, or else wait for the uncut version. i hope it is more than 5 hours... after the movie i called godpa to see where he was, he wanted to pick me up and bought ramen for me to eat. wait. errata, my elder brother bought the noodles, my godfather fetched me. okay, that is at least what i remember... before that i accompaned them to the level 4 food court at wisma first. when my elder brother called me to wait for them at the taxi stand, jie and company were still waiting for seats. so have to leave them... augustine followed me down 'cause he had to draw cash. so after that i waited at the taxi stand for godpa. a while later they came and we went home. on the way home, we discussed about volunteerism. for me, i think that volunteering for cip hours is totally stupid and dumb. actually, the whole concept of volunteering for a cause except for love and compassion is totally wrong. this makes me rethink if i should get the $10 for volunteering in the NTUC thing... i think it is either i choose CIP or money. tough choice, but i have to make it sooner or later... i think i have to stop now, see you soon! bye...

 

withl love,

~matt