Hello ge wei. Yesterday I kena pangseh-ed by my class T.T
Apparently class gathering was cancelled and I was supposed to receive an sms which said so, but I never did get it. And no, I'm not pointing fingers at anybody so qing3 bu4 yao4 wu4 hui4. So well, I spent $20.00 on a cab rushing down to Bugis Junction pretty much for nothing. Well let's see, the cabbie said he'd give me a receipt so that I can analyse the ERP charges etc. and not anyhow take cabs at the wrong time, like during peak hour yesterday.

So, it was
Cab fare: $13.80
Peak (35%): $4.85
ERP: $1.50
Total: $20.15

But he was nice and just charged me $20.00.
See, during peak hours they charge you 135% of the normal fare. The moral of the storey story is to not take a cab during peak hours. Yup, and you'll have to pay ERP charges. ERPs are popping up everywhere now, you'd better be careful.

The cabbie was quite funny. I was at the junction and contemplating about whether I should cab or bus down. Just at that moment, a cab appeared in front of me and so I decided to take it. I wanted to flag it, but the driver didn't seem to be looking so I didn't flag. But he turned and saw me, so he asked me if I wanted to take the cab and ya, I took it. So for about a third of the journey, he was telling me at least 10 times about how people should
1. flag cabs earlier. Flag a cab as long as you see one, don't wait until you can figure if the cab's empty before you flag because it'd be gone by then;
2. stick their arms out for a longer time, especially at night, because it's really quite hard to decide whether or not to stop if the person just sticks his arm out (to flag a cab) for, say, half a second. In the end, most cabbies just drive past the guy.

The cabbie has a kid in primary 1, and he's started asking me about tuition, like when I think his son should get tuition. He kept asking me why I could get into Nanyang without tuition, is it because I'm very smart?
...That's not the point.
What I find quite amusing is that he's asking me when his kid will need tuition when he/she's only in primary 1. Personally I find it's a bit too early to think about tuition, hahah.

He told me stories about how fantastic a lawyer David Marshall was. As a defence lawyer he was so fantastic that those who were initially given the death sentence would in the end be found not guilty and could go free.

And he kept insisting that being a lawyer's difficult but being a doctor's easy.
Ya, both are hard, but he still thinks being a doctor's easy.

---

So what did I do at Bugis? I walked and walked and walked, and walked and walked and walked. I decided to go look for my duffel bag since I was out. After much walking, I found one at Adidas which cost $49.00. Felt it was quite reasonable considering the prices of other Adidas products (which are really overpriced), so I bought it.

After that I went to the fooooood basement and bought Chewy Jr.! 1 for $1.30, box of 6 for $7.00, and a free Chewy Jr. original with every 6. So I bought a box of 6 and got my free original one. Cost me $7.00 for 7, so my Chewy Jrs cost $1.00 each. I saved $0.30 on each one :D

My ah yi wanted to come down but I was going back already so I told her she didn't need to come down.

Took 170 back and ate leftovers for dinner, rice+tofu+fish.

---

Earlier yesterday I had CCA, which turned out quite ok, just that A1s, we must jia1 lots and lots of you2 okay! This is the World Choir Games, not SYF or something. We go to get Gold and we've got to fight for it, no Gold will fall from the sky if we don't work for it.
I think our choir's like the stock market. Up, down, up, down, up, down. So unstable. We must go up up up and stabilize! Then we can stabilize our Gold and make this expensive, expunsive and time-consuming (pre-trip) trip really worthwhile.

After choir I went to catch The Incredible Hulk with Han Sheng. I think Bruce is quite cute :D as in the small kid kind of cute. I don't know, he just gives me the small-kid-cute kind of feeling. Lol. It was kinda cold in the cinema and I was shivering and shivering throughout the movie but Han Sheng didn't feel cold at all. -.-

Oh I ran into Michelle Chia's mama in Lot 1 after coming out of the toilet. Michelle's brother was getting a haircut at EC House. Her mama asked me a lot of things which I forgot.
Han Sheng came out of the toilet a while later and when he saw me talking to Michelle's mum he got scared and sneaked away to hide behind some plant -.-

After that I went home and left the house about 30min later for class gathering, cabbed down only to realise it was cancelled.

And that sums up yesterday.

Labels: Daily ramblings