So, there was no Sentosa outing in the end. There's not much fun in five people running around on the beach. If I've said it once, I'll say it again: a class outing is simply priceless. Even getting four guys together takes up an awful lot of text messages. In the end it was Jeremy, Dai Wei, Musa and me trooping off to watch a movie, the results of which I will not reveal, in order to save whatever scraps of pride we still place in our, um, masculinity...

ANYWAY, I once told Quek that if you walked around Orchard long enough, you eventually meet almost everyone you know. And true enough, we met plenty of people we knew. Let me see, first I met Xin Nin at Lido. Dai Wei also spotted the boyfriend of his 1st three months classmate... Then we bumped into Liz and Kelly at Borders. umm, I think Musa saw several dancers. Then as we were entering Orchard Station Jill emerged dramatically from the crowds (it was more of the classic jump and scream-out-name-of-person tactic). There was even a confused moment when I recognised Shang, the RJ debater, on the escalator. Have I left out anyone? Hmm, nope, I don't think so.

ughh... My head hurts. I didn't exactly have a very pleasant night sleeping. The imagination produces wondrous effects when given room to flower. And so, I will probably end up snoring on my bed this afternoon.

I've been making some progress in my books. Which is of course good. At this rate I should be able to finish everything this hols, with space for maybe more. I should. This kind of talk was unheard of a few years ago. Usually I just blaze through books. But maybe its because the kind of books I'm reading now require more time to think.

Listening to Christmas songs now, haha... Feeling all Christmassy again... I think...Christmas is best experienced as a child, when the wonder of the season wasn't that commercialised, the joy of looking and picking through all those marvellously wrapped gifts clustered beneath that great old tree that seemed to get shorter with each passing year. In my case it literally got shorter. We replaced it with a shorter one a few years back.

I was remarking to my mother some time back that for a secular country, Singapore spends a great deal of money on what is supposed to be a religious holiday. Ha. What a joke.